We can't really say that we have learned from our mistakes until we have seen the one great error that follows us through time: the only thing that judges us is our present nature, and not what we may have done in days now past.
Fear and anger -- as is true of all negative states -- are "undercover agents." Their "soul" task, in any moment of conflict with life, is to rush in and cover-up any possible impression that would otherwise reveal we don't possess the "powers" to which we pretend.
Part 1Unseen by those who feel empty, resisted by those always in a rush, feared by those who resist change, is this inescapable spiritual fact concerning emptiness, anxiety, or fear: our lives are full of what we fill them with! Part 2When it comes to desires they can either be a part of your world, serving as intended or you can be a servant.
Getting to the root of the root in us...will never be reached through any act of the intellect, regardless how astute it may be with analyzing things. Being able to connect negative reactions to their hidden root requires a willingness to "pull back and out" from oneself (and the reaction). One must work to see the nature that's reacting, and not what it gives us to look at, blame, or otherwis...
The secret of higher success is to make impersonal those times when we stumble or fall, whereas to take failure personally is to lose sight of the one Great Lesson that Life would have us learn: there is no "self" to fail (at anything) -- only a certain level of understanding not as yet adequate to the task set before it. To know this truth helps us transcend not only the trials we must face...
We may deny that we value our aches, but on the other hand, we think about them all the time. We have yet to recognize the fact that our thinking about any painful event as something real, solid and unavoidable is one of the conditions that perpetuate it. Take one thing out of the mix of elements that make up any moment in life, and it is no longer the same event. When we stop giving our life...
The cost of peace is what we bear within us when we cease blaming others for the conflict we feel. --Guy Finley This is a special talk that Guy gave to a small group of students that was thought-provoking, liberating, and shocking, all at the same time. It provides deep insight into the real causes behind escalating global conflict, using the Israel-Gaza war as a model to reveal the unse...
Each person is created with the tools it takes to master his or her own life. But self-mastery remains the ultimate mystery until that day dawns when -- weary of struggling to overcome what he blames for his conflicted self -- he lets go and enters into the untamed country of himself by becoming completely still. And by this stillness, he tames its wildness; and through this stillness he is give...
Suffering doesn't prove that someone else is wrong. What it does prove is you will go to any lengths, including self-destruction, to prove that you are right. ~~~ Instead of always asking yourself why doesn't so-and-so see how wrong they are, learn to ask Is what I'm feeling about that person right now good for me? Or them? ~~~ See the upset not as an exterior circumstance to be reme...
How strange it is that we resent carrying on our backs the pointed opinion of others, when it is we who give this barbed thought its power to trouble us. Think not? Then let us ask: what possible suffering can there be in what another thinks of me, unless I am holding the same thought as he?...
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Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of September 24, 2018. It is impossible for one to awaken -- to realize a new mind and a new heart that carries no residue of resentment, let alone the image of some enemy -- until one sees the absolute uselessness of complaining about anything, to anyone... Including to ourselves about our "self."...