Compassion for others starts with the understanding that every human being on the planet looks different from us -- because physically we are different -- but inwardly we all live in the same pool. We all have pain and pleasure, we all share emotions that move in waves through that pool. People may live on the east bank of the pool so that the waves they know are different from the waves we know on the west bank, but if we look close enough...
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The unseen seed of any crisis -- be it personal or planetary -- is the false belief that we can escape our own nature through its inventions.
What power has any painful moment over us save for having become unconsciously identified with our own negative reaction to it...
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Classroom Talk: 2/5/2020 -Part 1: Effortless contentment appears as unconscious resistance -- along with its "partner in conflict" -- involuntary insistence, disappears. Part 2: Spiritual freedom is not found by avoiding what disturbs us, but rather by the deliberate interior work of illuminating whatever still dwells in the dark of us that is...
Topic: Turn the Pain of Blame into a Higher Healing Power (2/4/18 Classroom Talk)...
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Classroom Talk: 1/15/2020 - We cannot run away from what we don’t want to see in ourselves, any more than a mirror can escape whatever is reflected in it. And yet, to SEE the truth of this fact (about our present level of consciousness) is the action of transcending it, along with its pain.