In the same moment you can see there is nothing to talk to yourself about that is worthwhile listening to -- you will feel the faint stirring of a sweet new silence within you that braces the soul with a strength unexpected.

Counter to popular opinion, real success is not measured by the amount of our possessions. Simply stated, the truth is that real success -- ultimately the only success -- is determined by how much we are in actual possession of ourselves. And by the light of this great fact of life, we can also see that the person who fears the loss of what he thinks is his success has not truly succeeded.

I believe the more I comfort and fill myself with thoughts of a "brighter tomorrow," the better off I am, but I can see... all discontentment belongs to an inconsolable level of self that doesn't exist without seeking something to complete itself. So I will no longer identify with its sense of emptiness. 2. I may be convinced that you're responsible for my...

The futility of ambition hides behind the pain of false pride... save for those inevitable, inescapable moments of seeing how we have labored for a "treasure chest" to come that was empty, barren in the same moment of its imagined conception.

Part 1 Mindfulness is mandatory for anyone wishing to end the misery born of trying – in vain – to fill an empty heart with a string of meaningless experiences. Part 2 We have freedom of choice, but not from the consequences of those choices.

Seeking to comfort ourselves -- by clinging to the hope of a better time to come -- is like a hungry man standing outside a restaurant, looking in through the window, and trying to fill his empty stomach by watching other people eat.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of July 20, 2015. Your mind belongs to you, and to you alone... which means that it is yours to determine who or what enters into it, and upon what terms; to forget this truth is to forgo the freedom that comes to those who are willing and able to remember it.

Student Talks: 02/06/2026 - Giving yourself empty things to do can't fill the emptiness you feel inside, so…risk leaving that space empty; allow it to be filled with something you can't give yourself: freedom from the fear of feeling empty.

Topics Covered: There is never a moment without disturbance; An unattended mind is a perpetual misery machine; The task isn't to not be disturbed, instead the task is to see the nature that doesn't want to be disturbed; We rarely suspect that psychological fear is a dream; It is awareness that we are after, not a result; There is a level of consciousness that is a world of imagination...

Nothing is wrong with desiring financial independence, but this kind of freedom isn't what you really want. What you really want is freedom from a self that torments you each time it compares itself to others it imagines are happier than you are because of what they possess. Truth be known, these people are possessed by a kind of spirit that can never be satisfied, as evidenced by the fa...

Just as there is only one God, so is there one universe that is the archetype for the innumerable domains; which is why every self-created universe eventually breaks down -- scattering its temporary worlds and leaving its false center empty, frightened, and confused.

In the same moment you can see there is nothing to talk to yourself about that is worthwhile listening to -- you will feel the faint stirring of a sweet new silence within you that braces the soul with a strength unexpected.