If you do not let people treat you rudely or badly, and you do not try to help them change, would that not make you pretty much alone in the world?...

You've written that: "No one ever falls into a dark psychological hole that he didn't help dig!" I see what you're trying to say, but I think that statement is rather offensive to survivors of child abuse, violence, etc. (From student correspondence)...

My teenage son studies hard, but his grades remain below average. I would like to be able to offer him some trick about studying and taking exams that would help him to achieve good results. (From student correspondence)...

I have just read key #3 in your book "30 Keys to Change Your Destiny." Refuse to be self-compromising - Can you explain that more? Last sentence - "Begin by consciously refusing to compromise yourself"... What does compromise mean in that context? (Student correspondence, 2/4/06)...

Student Talks: 11/29/2024 - Every shocking revelation that we are given to see about ourselves is -- at its heart -- an unseen act of mercy; it is the herald of an order of forgiveness unimaginable to the human mind.

The more we look for ways to protect ourselves from fear, the greater grows our inability to see its increasing authority over our heart, mind, and soul...

Attempting to use thought to grasp the meaning of any moment in life is like reaching out with your hand hoping to capture and hold a sunbeam in it.

My mother died when I was only 12, and my father died just recently. He was 88. I have always fervently believed that someday I would be reunited with my parents, somewhere? But now I'm beginning to have doubts. Does everyone's energy just become something else and no one is ever again who they were? So in that case I would never be with my parents again?...

If negative states preexist, then is the same true for the positive ones? Did someone or something outside of us really cause it at all, or just provide the trigger for it to show itself? It makes me start to think that everything is really internal and that all outer conditions are inherently neutral. (Student correspondence)...

I have had serious medical issues that have resulted in me having to sell all of my belongings. I am essentially destitute and must lie in bed all day. I am praying that you will help give me a reason to go on... because it's real hard to figure out a reason to do so. (From student correspondence)...

As a child and a younger man, my prayers were answered almost immediately. Now I'm supposed to be wiser, more mature, experienced having more knowledge and it would appear as if my prayers take a longer time to be answered or manifested. I wonder if I'm getting in the way of myself...try as I may to move out of my own way methinks... (From student correspondence)...