Negative reactions create chains. All chains are made by machines. To see that you are not a machine instantly releases you from becoming identified with any painful chain reaction.

Bound up as we are within the closed world of our own thoughts, we see virtually nothing other than what the false self of the moment wants us to see. By contrast, in real life, everything is new.

Classroom Talk: 11/17/2004 - The power to be quiet and at peace comes to those who have seen that peace and quiet cannot be granted by any power that the mind imagines and pursues.

Classroom Talk: 5/23/2003 - Wherever it may be that we are in such a rush to arrive, we're sure to find it a more enjoyable place if only we would dare to get there relaxed!

Classroom Talk: 4/2/2004 - Show me someone who isn't working to improve whatever it may be that he or she is doing -- every time they do it -- and I will show you a person who is missing the very purpose of being alive.

Classroom Talk: 9/23/2023 - Inner joy can't be separated from a deep sense of gratitude that is, in turn, inseparable from a mind at peace with itself; it knows, without thought, that everything is in its right place -- being revealed at the right time.

Classroom Talk: 9/18/2022 - All of tomorrow's worries lie hidden in a moment of imagining -- and then identifying with -- some fearful thought as it threatens you with the possibility of a painful moment that may, or may not come to pass.

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