Someone I love has hurt me deeply, betrayed my trust, and now I don't know how I should feel about this person. Should I forgive and forget, or try to find another who won't be the same way? Seems I can't get a hold on what should be happening here! What's to be done? (Student correspondence, 3/24/08)...

Question: How do I get past my frustration with other speakers when they ask Guy questions? I see myself judging them terribly for all of the pauses and the "ums" and for not being able to get to the point.

I have a mother-in-law who embodies every known cliche about mothers-in-law. I used to call her regularly out of a sense of duty, but she was often rude and negative, so a while ago I stopped calling her. I don't have the spiritual strength to handle this person with equanimity. As an aspirant, is it right to avoid contact? What is the kindest thing to do here -- call and satisfy her demands,...

How do I learn to go through the resistance I feel when I am asked to do something I don't want to do but know that I should do? Can you elaborate a bit on Christ's teaching of "Resist not evil" and how this applies to the movies playing in my head? Sometimes I feel like I'm looking at millions of them all at once.

Anxiety seems to be my lot in life lately. I have a full plate of activities with children, a challenging job, and a few outside interests. I feel like I balance these and keep my priorities straight, yet still, I'm often visited by worry and anxiety. Do you have any suggestions on how I can work through this? When caught in an anxious state, it seems that the more I try to be awake and aware,...

Someone I was deeply in love with has left me after several years together. I am crushed. I have dated others, but none compare. How do I pull myself out of obsessive thoughts about what I once had? If there's really a way to take the torment out of personal loss, I want to know about it. But the whole idea of not feeling loss also frightens me in a way that's hard to describe. I mean, what...

I am searching for a way out of such tormenting questions as: Who am I? What is the purpose of life? How do I best serve others? This last question matters most as whatever I have done so far has literally turned to dust, and I am in the midst of unbearable pain, shamed and ridiculed by others. I pray for divine guidance for what I am supposed to learn from these events. I try to remain presen...

Why do people have to be so cruel to each other? I can't begin to tell you the shock and disappointment I feel over certain events. I just can't understand why it has to be this way. Is there no such thing as loyalty or decency anymore? Why are so many people only "in it for themselves"? Is there any hope for people? Some problems just seem too hard to handle just by trying to respond differen...

I am taking the biggest risk of my life and am about to leave a long-standing job for a new business opportunity. Although I have basically kept my old job out of fear, there is quite a bit of fear in leaving the safety of the known for the unknown. Any ideas on how to make this new adjustment in life and how to quell the uncertainty? I'd like to be less fearful, more decisive... to do what I...

Topics covered: The moment that you start thinking about being in the flow, you are cast out of the flow; Resistance to the disturbance seems to prove that we would be content if it were not for the disturbance; When a dream is interrupted, the dreamer comes up with a plan to get rid of whatever is obstructing the dream; Identification with anything always places a person outside of where the real flow exists.