Given time, whatever degree of dependency we help to create in others will eventually prove itself a prison of our own making... For there is no form of psychological dependency that doesn't make a captive of whoever may be involved in that relationship... including the one who unknowingly initiated it.
The sooner we see the secret relationship between how certain we are over what we think we know -- and the extent of our suffering over the same -- the sooner will we find that elusive freedom that comes only with having realized freedom from the known.
The real meaning of any given moment can never threaten the truth of who you really are; it can only serve to strengthen, and enhance your relationship with a Higher Order of Consciousness already present within you that is the source of all possibilities.
The sooner we see the secret relationship between how certain we are over what we think we know, and the extent of our suffering over the same, the sooner we will realize the true liberation that comes only with winning freedom from the known.
Discover the unseen relationship between always being in a rush... and how important it makes you feel to always be going somewhere in a hurry... and you've made first contact with the power you need to slow down and take command of your own life.
Show me that rare individual who grows weary of giving his life away to win some fleeting sense of fulfillment born of an equally temporary thrill or pleasure, and I will show you someone being prepared for a relationship with a Love that never dies.
We go through life looking for approval from others. This unending search for approval runs deep inside of us as we unknowingly nurture a relationship with the idea that if we could just be accepted, then little by little we would come to know who we are. We actually buy into the notion that if we could get enough people to approve of us, then this ache in our soul that is always trying to fig...
In today's modern world, success and stress seem to be constant companions. Success in business means "workaholism." Success in love means constant sacrifice and "working on the relationship." Success in school, or art, or music, or sports means ever increasing pressure to perform. Success in our society is just plain crazy... but success is not supposed to be like that. Success is suppose...
While it's impossible to be entirely free of a psychological body -- including the elements inherent in the constant appearance of its deeply conditioned reactions -- we are free to change our relationship to that body...
Classroom Talk: 4/9/2004 - True strength of character is not just calculated by how well we manage to carry some sizable load under challenging conditions, but is perhaps better measured by our ability to remain kind and light-spirited... even when we're sure that we can't bear the weight of one more ounce of life.