Since what other people do to you is not in your power to change, you need only concern yourself with what you do to yourself, for that is in your power.
We're often led to act against ourselves by an undetected weakness that goes before us -- trying to pass itself off to others -- as a strength. This is secret self-sabotage. It sinks us in our personal and business relationships as surely as a torpedo wrecks the ship it strikes. Any person you feel the need to control or dominate -- so that he or she will treat you as you "think" you should b...
Student Talks: 1/23/2019 - Key Lesson: The only reason we ever get “disturbed” over what others may or may not think about us...is because there is something in our present nature that wants to be.
There is never a good reason to go along with feeling bad about yourself...
When those familiar feelings wash over us that we have somehow failed at something, or that we are sure to face defeat should we endeavor to claim some personal higher ground, we can do much better than allow ourselves to be carried away by these dark waves. We can call upon the following five light-filled truths to realize new self-victory. Study these friendly facts until they tell you why t...
Classroom Talk: 10/1/2003 - Part 1: No one sets out to find ways to comfort himself without having first consented to making his own discontented nature King or Queen for the duration of that search. Part 2: Our spiritual sleep is upon a bed of thorns lightly covered by fragrant petals.
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Classroom Talk: 9/29/2024 - In this life – regardless of circumstance – there is no greater reward than our God-given right to see what is true, and then to do what is asked of us in the light of that revelation; neither is there any task that comes with so great a personal price.
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Classroom Talk: 1/24/2024 - There is a big difference between making a mistake, and thinking of oneself as being a mistake; any compulsive wish to be seen as perfect in the eyes of the world is a punishment that can never be a part of true peace and contentment.
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Classroom Talk: 7/16/2023 - Part 1: Whenever you make someone else's karma your own, you'll always blame them for it. Part 2: An incomplete mind creates incomplete actions; incomplete actions have consequences. Part 3: Word made flesh... or, "war" made flesh; that's the question that sits at the heart of every moment of life, whether it is wanted, or not.