Our present experience of life, for its happiness or sorrow, is nothing more or less than what certain unconscious parts of us tell us it is. This means that before we can hope to change our life experience, we must stop trying to re-write the Book of Life and work instead to awaken ourselves from the dreams of the unseen storyteller within us. *** We cannot change what life brings to our do...
What is fear...but a dark premonition that come the next moment, day, month or year to come, something untold will render you powerless to provide yourself with what you've imagined you must possess in order to feel safe, whole, and content. What is faith...but the unthinkable act of understanding that only by agreeing to be powerless before these fears do you find that what you actually need...
The more lost in thought you become, the less likely you'll be able to find your way back Home.
Multi
Format
Allowing any part of (your) self to act in such a way as to deny you a new awareness of yourself – whatever its quality – is the same as refusing your right to realize the limitless depth and breadth of your True Self.
Multi
Format
Classroom Talk: 12/21/2022 - How can we ever hope to be at peace with life when -- for the most part -- all we know to live for is the endless struggle to carve out a piece of it for ourselves?
Though we find no evidence of anything noble in someone who has betrayed us, neither is there anything noble in our bitterness.
Student Talks: 8/4/2023 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Faith flowers into Love; Love is the fulfillment of faith. Part 2: To live with the perpetual fear you may "do the wrong thing"... is to be doing the wrong thing that you fear. Part 3: Whatever may be the welcome appearance of some familiar path promising to lead you away from a moment in life that you fear, be not mistaken...
Multi
Format
Classroom Talk: 11/23/2025 -The clearer we can see that negative states must have an excuse to exist within us, the sooner – and more strongly – will arise in us a refusal to grant them a place anywhere in our heart, mind, or soul.
Sometimes people with depression have no choice but to "give in" to depression, so don't they need kindness and understanding?...