Talk Takeaways
Pretending to be a loving person, while inwardly being resentful, is pain.
A nice deep breath will always help you to digest more of the many impressions that are raining down on you.
The secret source of our painful, ongoing imperfections is our fear of them.
We don't see the judgment in ourselves because we are identified with what we are judging.
Creation is an unfinished business. Everything in creation is always being acted upon by the will of the Divine.
We complete the purpose of our existence as we continue to receive what we need from that which gave us our existence.
Everything that we experience in time is already a part of ourselves.
You can't let go of anything until you understand that the pain, that you blame on something outside of you, is actually inside of you.
An addict comes to the end of their addiction when they realize that they are powerless of themselves to bring an end to the addiction.
Pain is not yours as a personal imperfection. Pain becomes personal when you resist it.
What remains concealed cannot be healed. Pain is concealed when something outside of you is blamed as the cause. To be afraid of imperfections is to conceal those imperfections.
We think that judgment proves we are perfect.
"And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness." -- New Testament -- The weakness is that a part of you does not want to see imperfections.
The nature that is in pain wants to know why it is in pain, but it does not want true self-knowledge.
Everything that is created is incomplete, yet within that creation is everything needed to fulfill its possibilities. Human beings are created to consistently outgrow themselves.
The idea of perfection that human beings imagine is the source of their suffering.
The punchline of the story of the prince and the creature was: "Don't look away from me." The creature would have no chance to change if the prince looked away from it.
