Persistent painful problems in life are born out of one essential weakness: our inability to direct and keep our attention on what we choose to be in relationship with in the moment.
Properly understood, everything in life that now disturbs us is intended to lead us to a world in which who we are lives as one with all that takes place within it.
Which would you rather do? Be identified with all the things in life that come and go... so that this lower sense of self compels you to cry and worry and fight to keep everything in place? Or, would you rather be free of that lower nature that lives to cling... so that you're increasingly able to just let what "comes and goes" do just that... come and go with no further muss and fuss? We've...
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Question: I would like a few helpful insights as to how I should handle (spiritually) my son's divorce. I'm a 66-year-old woman and he may have to live with me for a while. The whole situation is very stressful, and I worry about being able to hold up under it.
Classroom Talk: 8/3/2005 - Worry and uncertainty cannot be solved by the mind that creates these self-wrecking states. Only by allowing such fears to run their full course through the mind that has made them can that same mind come to see how it makes its own misery. Then fears are not resolved, they are dissolved.
Have you ever wanted to be great at something? Painting, music, writing, physics, baseball? Of course you did. We all did. We all do! A longing for Greatness was put inside each of us even before we were born. It's part of what makes us human beings. Most people, however, have long since given up the quest for Greatness. Money worries, relationships, work, school, and the pursuit...
Each day we hear a knock on our psychological door, and when we open it a pushy person enters and begins to bark out orders: "Worry about this." "Remember and regret that." "Work harder!" Is it little wonder we experience only the most fleeting feelings of love, kindness or relaxation? We are all the time being pushed along by something that calls itself an authority, and without ever questi...
There is an unseen source of daily suffering that is the constant companion of humanity. It is in one respect one of the great driving forces behind the darkness that encompasses this planet -- the unremitting wars, the violence, the greed, the fear, the desperation -- all the things we see in the world around us...
Classroom Talk: 9/13/2002 - There is no worry so great, no anxious rush for resolution so strong, that these terrible twins cannot be taken up, reduced and returned to their basic nothingness by that mind brought back into its native quietude. Learning to be still is not just the remedy for our self-wrecking states, but proves to be their permanent cure.