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No one really wants to talk about it, but the truth is, there is a kind of "evil spell" hanging over each of us and our world as well. In fact, part of this global spell is our denial of its existence. It is called suffering. Everyone does it -- and, like hypnotized captives, everyone believes that their suffering somehow benefits them. That's how the spell works. Why else would anyone punish...
Classroom Talk: 7/31/2002 - Part 1: When you can look a worry or anger in the eye and tell it, "There is nothing between us anymore," then you are well on your way to the birth of a new kind of freedom in you that nothing can oppose or ever take away from you! Part 2: Our problems, what amounts to our lives defined by these protracted burdens, become weightless the moment we cease to identify with them...
Student Talks: 7/26/2024 - Key Lesson: Until the peace and pleasure found within us is equal to -- or greater than -- any consolation found outside of ourselves -- then our power to be patient, loving, and profitable in every moment is, at best, conditional; nothing better serves to sustain anger, frustration, and fear than being identified with a level of self whose life is founded, at best, upon the sands of passing circumstances.
Topics covered: We are bullied all the time by something within ourselves that we do not recognize as a bully. In fact, we often look to this inner bully for guidance; What makes us the favorite of any bully? The answer is that weakness always pounces on weakness. The bully does not exist without something to bully; We are bullied inwardly by fear, anxiety, anger, worry, depression, or any other negative state that we are not aware of...
I have fallen into a state of despair and anger that I have never thought possible. I just found out that in my hometown, at the very elementary school that I went to, 30 students and teachers were shot and killed. Thank God Himself, my siblings and mother are OK. A lot of my friends' families are in an enormous and incomprehensible amount of pain right now. I have not felt this angry in a lon...
Is it possible to prevent saddness just only by knowing the problem is in me? (Student correspondence, 4/14/09)...
What is it that has you feeling trapped? * A failing relationship teetering on the edge of breakup? * A depression that coils itself around your mind the moment you wake up? * The sinking feeling that you're well into your middle-age years and still have little to show for it? * Exasperation over the countless responsibilities that hold you hostage and drive you through your day from...
There is one essential reason why there is so much constant heartache and war on this earth, and why conflict has continued as it has down through the ages. The answer may surprise you. We do not understand our own pain -- our suffering. Six-and-a-half billion human beings live in ignorance of their pain. But this is not to say that we live pain-free. In fact, without exception, human beings...
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.