My sister's husband abandoned her, and she is left angry and hurt. She has asked me how to get past this. How can I help her? (From student correspondence)...
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Resisting the revelation of any existing limitation is like resenting the ocean because you never learned how to swim!
Two men stroll down a leaf-covered wood-lot path on a clear, brisk Autumn morning. Jeff and Mark have been friends for years. They enjoy their Saturday morning walks and talks together. Yet, something's different about Mark today. Jeff senses there's a problem. But he says nothing. Two minutes later Mark stops walking, and turns to Jeff. His eyes are searching for a place to begin. Then, foll...
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Resisting the revelation of any personal limitation... is like resenting the ocean because you never learned how to swim!
Whatever storms you are given to face on your long journey back home, work to remember this truth... and be assured the day will dawn when you will know the unconditional freedom you seek: Your struggle is with yourself, and yourself only.
Can you remember a time when you were deeply in love? A time when you were infused by that intoxicating, overwhelming, all-encompassing Love? Is there anything in the world that can compare to that extraordinary feeling? Why is it that Love can transform everything about our lives? It's simple, really: Love is literally the most powerful force in the universe. Love is the embodimen...
Part 1Any attempt to control a reaction is a form of resistance to it, and opposition can never lead to liberation any more than pushing against the bars of a prison cell helps to put you on the other side of them.Part 2Anger is the negative outcome of meeting moments in life where we see that some positive quality of character imagined as being our own . . . isn't.
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Classroom Talk: 4/5/2023 - Resisting the revelation of any existing limitation is like resenting the ocean because you never learned how to swim!
Student Talks: 12/05/2025 -
Part 1
If you find yourself harboring resentment -- filled with angry thoughts or painful regrets -- having surrendered to the suffering induced by your own negative considerations... be warned: in the darkness of that nature is where affliction hides; it abides there, breeding the conflict it has with the natural tides of life, waiting to consume those who consent to enter the hell wherein it dwells.
Part 2
The hell in which we dwell is the conflicted experience of a conditioned mind trapped in a time it can't escape because it recreates it each time it returns there to resist and relive, again, a time of its own making!
Our experience of each moment -- for its pleasure or pain, peace or trouble -- is a direct reflection of what we are in relationship with in the present.
It's hard to believe that we have a nature that would rather destroy someone else -- punish them, resent them -- than see itself as it is. Most of us still don't believe it, but when things don't happen the way we want them to, what becomes of us? What do we express? You know the answer, don't you?