Topics covered:  A lesson comes along on the back of events to help you see something about yourself that you had never seen before; Weakness passes itself off as strength, which the moment comes along to reveal as false; We never question why we live with worry and struggle in order to arrive at a life free from worry and struggle.

 

We will make detailed preparations for a single day off, lay out careful plans for an evening meal, and spend untold moments worrying over what we should wear; but few of us will rarely take the time to prepare our interior life to receive the impressions that give our soul its substance and meaning.

We will make detailed preparations for a single day off, lay out careful plans for a special date, or spend untold moments worrying over what we should wear; but few of us rarely take the time to prepare our interior life to receive the higher impressions that awaken our soul to its substance and meaning.

The next time (and every time) you catch some negative thought or feeling that says, "I am anxious," "I am scared," "I am mad," or "I am in so much pain" -- the first thing to do is to come wide awake to yourself. By taking the following inner action, you can deliberately snap yourself out of that dark dream that is trying to weave itself into your identity...

When it comes to our wish to make real changes in ourselves, good intentions cost (us) nothing... and that's why the road to hell is paved with useless coins. On the other hand, making a conscious effort to change -- in the moment that calls for it -- comes with the cost of seeing ourselves as we really are. This awareness shows us not only the possibility of being released from our worry and fear...

Topics covered: The real secret of letting go is to discover for yourself that there is a completely different order of understanding in which there is necessary practical struggle, without the useless struggle of trying of bringing an end to your pain; The world believes that it is natural to worry. There is another order of being that does not have in it any lingering negative states like worry...

Realize the higher, happier levels of life that come with learning to let go of the comparative mind, as author Guy Finley describes the true nature of enlightenment. Develop the higher awareness that awakens the Changeless Self that lives within, and watch worries fade from sight.

silence, gossip, slander, speaking, wrongness, choice, fear, worry, complaining, complaint, reponsibility...

Who is the most unwelcome guest that appears at your door? (And it is not your son-in-law!) Again... Who is the most unwelcome guest that ever came 'knock-knock-knocking' at your door? How many of you had some dark thought or feeling knock at your door and wake you up this very morning... unwanted guests such as depression, anxiety... "Hello, anybody home?" How about worry...

The belief that getting anxious or agitated over a problem helps to produce a positive outcome to it is a lot like yelling at a newly lit campfire on a cold night to hurry up and get hotter!...

Everyone can agree that no intelligent, conscious man or woman would ever intentionally hurt him- or herself. No one would choose to ache. Yet the fact remains that all of us do hurt ourselves every day when we harbor self-compromising thoughts and feelings like anger, stress, and resentment. Even at the simplest level, there is no doubt that fear and worry take an immense toll on our health and well-being.

Topic: Walking Away from Worry, Conflict, and Fear Begins Within (10/21/20 Classroom Talk)