Topics covered: You can never be prepared for what you are given to see. However, you can understand the need to see what you are given to see; The only way you can come to the end of "you" is to see the necessity for it; There is anxiety behind the part of you that wonders when and how it will be done with what it has to go through; Having an interior dialog with yourself about a problem does not solve the problem. Instead it adds weight and...
There can be no fearful thought of any time to come -- let alone the anxious struggle to control -- or otherwise avoid it -- without resisting a moment that has no existence outside of how we’ve unconsciously imagined it!
I know there must be a relationship between good physical health and true spiritual principles, but what part does Truth play when it comes to our healing? When I am in physical pain and not in control of what my body is doing, is there a tip you can give me for easing the seemingly inevitable anxiety? I am always so impressed with people who are able to overcome their physical impairments wit...
How many times in a day do we find ourselves having gone after something that we wanted, only to find ourselves "gotten" or "done in" by what we have reached for? Then what happens? The crying, complaining, bitterness, blaming starts: "Oh, why is this happening to me? This isn't right!" We can't see how we actually participated in producing the moment in which we find ourselves compromised, an...
Within each of us dwells a certain lower level of "self" whose chief feature is to ensure that no one ever doubts its perfection.
We can't change others -- or the purpose of any given moment as it unfolds -- but we can work to place one less demand upon both.
The solution to all stress and tension is a mind that is made aware of itself as being the producer of that stress and tension. Stress and tension are products of an unaware, unawake mind wrestling with its own contents to free itself from struggle. Relief from that tension is not to struggle with more things or to become stronger than what stresses you, but to recognize the relationship between how you are involved in your own mind because of that...
The basic core of all true spiritual teachings is that the inner determines the outer. What this timeless idea means to us is that what we receive from life -- our experience of self in life -- is determined by how we perceive events. And how we see life is determined, each moment, by what we are looking at it through.
Until we can withstand uncertainty without escaping into explanation, fantasy, or any other familiar form of psychological avoidance, we cannot discover what lies beyond it.
What is it that has you feeling trapped? * A failing relationship teetering on the edge of breakup? * A depression that coils itself around your mind the moment you wake up? * The sinking feeling that you're well into your middle-age years and still have little to show for it? * Exasperation over the countless responsibilities that hold you hostage and drive you through your day from...
Once higher self-understanding is restored to us, the painful problems that are caused by its absence effortlessly disappear.