Topic: The Gift of Gifts (12/22/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: The Gift of Gifts (12/22/19 Classroom Talk)

I've heard this maxim again and again: that you'll repeat an experience until you no longer need it or resist it. Yet I know of more than one person who left a boss, spouse, or friend because they were fed up with the relationship. None of them claim they grew in wisdom or grace or some other form of enlightenment. They claim the only thing that changed was that they woke up to the fact they w...

I have a problem that I just can't seem to shake: I can't seem to be faithful. I know it's wrong, but I just don't learn my lesson no matter how many times others, including myself, have been hurt. I'm so full of regret. I'm lost, disenfranchised, and have only hurt others and drawn them away from the light as well. I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing on this earth but know for certain...

I am convinced that I was somehow "urged" to pick up "The Secret of Letting Go." It was all so simple, yet to me it was absolutely profound. Since then, I have listened to many of your talks. I began trying to meditate, and over the years life slowly began to open up before my eyes.... Naturally, there is still much growing to be done, but thanks to your work and others like you, I have experi...

I have struggled with anxiety and fear all my life. I have taken medication for this for over 20 years. I have been to therapy and I am in the Work every day. One of my major goals has been to get off medication completely and since accomplishing that, there have been some very, very tough days and nights -- bouts of insomnia and days of pain and irritability that have challenged me to the hil...

While playing golf, I recognize how influenced I have programmed myself to be when people are around me... whether they are watching me or not! My mantra today while playing was: "This shot is for me and no one else." I understand how I've been giving my power away. When I'm in the correct state, I am only aware of the shot and not the people around me. Caring too much is poison. I'm starting...

My wife died three years ago, I live alone, and I and was recently diagnosed with cancer. I think I have come to terms with the prognosis, but for some reason my anxiety and depression get worse every day. I wake each morning with utter dread of the day ahead -- this horrible feeling of having no escape from the awful fear and despair. Sometimes I feel so close to madness; it's as if the false...

I experience fear on many levels, and in waves that seem to come and go. My rational self feels that everything will be OK and that I am unnecessarily tormenting myself over nothing. I can go from heaven and then back to hell in an instant. There are two men in me: Crazy Man and Spiritual Man. Crazy Man was born, lives crazily... and dies. Spiritual Man was born, lives spiritually... and dies.

I have been studying metaphysics/positive thinking/spiritual truths for many years and in some ways I have grown from it. However, at this late date in my life I have to look up and say: "So what's it all about, really? " After all this knowledge, and acting on it most of the time, I am left without a friend, and now I have cut ties with my children. I have lost everything I ever possessed. I...

I have a friend, also a seeker, who regularly listens to various popular authors speaking about the path to enlightenment and who even teach methods for being present. My friend frequently tries to engage me in debating the merits of these teachings, challenging me to question what I am learning about waking up from you and from this website. I find that this puts me in conflict - not only wit...

I have had bad allergy problems over a period of years in response to certain chemicals in foods and in the environment. Reactions are triggered in distressingly familiar patterns when, for example, I am exposed to chemical sprays. This has caused me no end of worry and fear. Over the years I've used the "love the opposite" approach in an attempt to cancel the fear of exposure, and have even t...