In today's modern world, success and stress seem to be constant companions. Success in business means "workaholism." Success in love means constant sacrifice and "working on the relationship." Success in school, or art, or music, or sports means ever increasing pressure to perform. Success in our society is just plain crazy... but success is not supposed to be like that. Success is suppose...
Do we not try to escape the stress we have by further imagining ways to relieve ourselves from the circumstances held responsible for it? And the more we do to create for ourselves an enclave in which we will no longer be confronted with the trouble, the more we isolate ourselves, and the greater the problem becomes because we increasingly resist anything not part of what we've..."
Imagine how much stress, fear, doubt, and sorrow we would live without were we only content enough within ourselves to enjoy our own company.
Topics covered: We can interact with each other on a completely different level that transforms our relationships; Relationships are the most abundant resource in the world for discovering your highest possibilities; You cannot heal anything until it stops being concealed. Negative reactions conceal hidden aspects of our consciousness; There is no intelligence in a negative reaction...
The basic core of all true spiritual teachings is that the inner determines the outer. What this timeless idea means to us is that what we receive from life -- our experience of self in life -- is determined by how we perceive events. And how we see life is determined, each moment, by what we are looking at it through.
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Classroom Talk: 7/6/2022 - Part 1: No stress or tension exists outside of the seed of some desire from out of which it grows. Part 2: Everything is better without tension!
Every day your body creates tremendous amounts of energy. And every day a massive portion of that energy is siphoned off and wasted. The culprit that is draining away your vital life force is familiar to all of us: Stress. And stress not only diverts the physical energy you need to live a full, active, happy life. It also interferes with your ability to tap into Higher energies that are...
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Classroom Talk: 11/10/2021 - To see that what makes unwanted moments feel so important to us can't be separated from a powerful, but false sense of self provided by these same painful feelings... is the first step in separating ourselves from an unconscious nature that doesn't care what it feels as long as that stress, anger, or fear supports its insatiable need to feel important.
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Classroom Talk: 10/2/2020 - Whatever temporary "strength" we derive from any stressed, agitated state of mind -- as it empowers us to "go through" what it is pushing us do -- is a lie. The only "power" this lower level of consciousness possesses is to deceive us into believing that it's better to run from (our) pain than to turn around...
Our experience of life is intimately connected to the way in which we view it, and this view changes from moment to moment depending upon what we are relating to within ourselves in each moment. When we see only our own ideas about why we're feeling stressed, and they're telling us how we're entitled to be miserable, misery makes up the circle of our lives. But when we actually see, within o...
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Key Lesson: There is no tension or anxiety in being watchful, while stresses of all makes and models are inherent in the illusion that it's possible for us to be in two places at a time.