Here's an inner life exercise of immeasurable value. Think of these new instructions as a kind of special cleansing agent, but not as a way to improve yourself. Let me explain.

Classroom Talk: 6/2/2019 - I have no problem with today... Other than the errant dreams that would steal in to disturb it. My course through each minute and hour is set by what consciousness and conscience call out as my duty; In this compass I have complete confidence. So that whether winds blow fair or foul... is of no consequence to me...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of February 17, 2013. The continuing justification of any negative state is not just the expression of some weakness in one's character; it is the assurance that one's character will grow weaker still.

The true individual is no more concerned over what others may think of him or her than is the sun troubled by people complaining that it's too warm, or that it shines too bright!...

It is the things we think ourselves to be that cause heartache and pain, for there is no such sorrow in the still whole depths of who we really are.

There is no one to blame for a negative feeling that you don't want that is, unless you think your waiter is responsible for the meal you don't like when you go out to eat.

We think that what troubles us most in life revolves around those things we can't control, or that we're otherwise unable to possess. But, the real source of what torments us is . . . we don't possess ourselves.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of November 21, 2016. Part 1: What is the weight of any unwanted moment... other than our resistance to it? Which means the real reason it's so difficult to set this suffering down is because, to do so, demands that we must also lay down the strong sense of self that doesn't exist without what it resists. Part 2: The real, but unsuspected problem with on...

The one who awakens is no more troubled over what others may think of him or her than is the sun concerned by people who complain it rises too early, or sets too late!

Classroom Talk: 5/19/2019 - Being able to realize, and then release one's resistance to any unwanted moment does more than just help change the "dark tide" of that event; it reveals that within us already dwell the untroubled "waters" of a celestial harbor: the timeless shelter of an eternal Self that becomes the same as our own...

If any of those times you rushed around madly -- trying to get somewhere faster -- had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?...

The continuing unconscious comparison of who we think ourselves to be, in contrast with who we imagine we ought to be, is the unseen movement of misery seeking new company without ever leaving the house of itself.