It is never the event or the condition that holds us captive, but it's the way we think toward it that creates our sense of captivity. Help yourself to the keys of self liberation hidden in these next ten insights. Take the time you need to let each concentrated idea sink into your heart and mind. The truths you are about to meet are actually alive. If you embrace their healing presence, t...
My life seems like an endless string of thoughts by which I know myself. I wonder if it's really even possible to live a thought-free life. How do I start knowing without thinking?...
We're always trying, one way or the other, to grab and maintain something that will make us feel safe and whole forever. The pursuit of that wholeness, of that security, is through what we commonly call "powers." When we think of our security, we think of the powers that we must have to maintain it -- whether it's trying to please other people, trying to have, keep, and gain more possessions, or struggling to get some kind of control over a relationship or...
We have yet to recognize the fact that our thinking about any painful event as something real, solid and unavoidable is one of the conditions that perpetuate it. Take one thing out of the conjunction, and it is no longer the same event. When we stop giving our life energy to any moment which seems overpowering, it loses its illusion of power. In that moment is also lost our prior belief that w...
The real source of the discontentment we feel in life is with our present level of understanding -- and not with what that understanding has brought to us. Life is not a series of conditions, but a manifestation of mind in Mind; our actual experience - moment to moment - is a question of consciousness, not circumstance.
Are you beginning to lose hope that you'll ever see any real change in your life? That you'll ever know a lasting difference? How many times have you made resolutions, plans, affirmations - thinking this time you've got it; now you have the right combination to blast you out of the rut? It's something we all say. ""This time it's going to be different..."" We'll be nicer to people. We'll...
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Classroom Talk: 12/10/2023 - The world today: Those who can't think, criticize; those who criticize, think they see. Those who think they see, are blind. And those who live in the dark follow, blindly, the shadow of any beckoning thought that promises the end of whatever they fear will surely be found... just around the next corner.