We are spiritually free when we no longer want anything to do with sitting in judgment of others, regardless of their perceived transgression.

Resistance to any negative reaction accelerates its burning sensation that, in turn, serves to accentuate one's certainty that something outside of him or her must be to blame for these flames.

Struggling to change some unwanted condition in your life without first addressing the character within you that it reflects, is like blaming the mirror for what you don't like seeing (in it).

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of June 8, 2015. There are some patterns that are a necessary part of greater cycles; they are timeless, true, and required for reconciling Life. Then there are some patterns whose appearance belongs to lesser, lower "powers" seeking substantiation on whatever plane of existence within which they are allowed to manifest. These lower cycles and patterns a...

Part 1 We fear whatever we don't understand, and then blame the thing feared... Instead of seeing the real source of it: (unconscious) self-ignorance. Part 2 There is no fear now.

Topic: This False Conclusion Ensures There Can Be No End to Our Conflict with Life (Classroom Talk 2/28/24)

Struggling to reconcile what disturbs you about the world unfolding around you, while averting your eyes from the world within you, is a lot like overeating...and then blaming your stomach for getting upset.

Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein.

Honesty heals; lies hurt. In these four words lives all one needs to know and practice, that is, assuming one wishes to be whole, harmless, true, and loving.

The first challenge before any person who wants to find a way out of some hurtful codependent relationship is to see that while we do have the awareness required to interact with life -- and even to learn challenging new skills -- this level of awareness is not enough.

Until we understand the workings of our mind in unwanted moments, the only thing that can change for us is who or what will be blamed the next time we run into a similar event.

Any form of measuring yourself by an unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror and then blaming yourself for the shattered image that you see there.