The faster we try to go with whatever it may be that we are doing incorrectly, whether it's hammering a nail or trying to nail down our happiness, the more and more frustrated we become for the unsatisfactory results. It is important to understand that we would never agree to give ourselves over to such mounting levels of frustration if we were not clinging to an unconscious certainty that thi...

Part I: Detect and deliberately drop all fearful thoughts about what "may be" your future and you release yourself from a present torment whose unseen driving force is your consent to consider darkly imagined tomorrows. Part II: We should never measure ourselves according to our "possibilities" because all such estimations of self are always based in secretly embraced evaluation...

Part I: Like a small child drags his or her cherished blanket along behind them where it is pulled through whatever it finds on the floor, so too do we drag along our unwanted moments in life... Comforted on the one hand by the familiarity of these lingering associations, even while the weight of these moments pulls us down punishing us with their painful refrains. Part II: We would all reali...

The fear of any imagined time to come... IS the time of fear.

Topic: Escape the Unseen Prison of Painful Dependency (Classroom Talk 11/15/23)