Arrogance

Catch every thought that wants to make you the star of the moment. See that talking to yourself about "What does this mean and how am I going to get through it" is actually self-importance having its way with you. Reach for another relationship with life in which you don't have to think incessantly and painfully about how each and every moment affects you and your imaginary reputation.

Topic: Solved: The Mystery of True Spiritual Strength (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 12/3/25)

Remastered Classic Talk: 12/07/16 - Human arrogance -- its entire dark and painful pretense -- exists only as it does because of how distanced we've become from the immense and Divine mystery of our own being. The more we awaken to the depth of this mystery, the more we see our life through the eyes of a whole new level of being endowed with a natural, yet supernal humility.

The perfection of each moment is hidden within its necessity; after all, what is the true nature of any moment revealed in the stream of time other than the ceaseless reconciling of creation to the Divine will that never stops giving it birth. The divided mind, supported by an ever-shifting false sense of self, creates the moment in time that it doesn't want and then -- blind to its own creation -- imagines a time to come when it will be free...

Topics covered: It is an illusion to believe that there is a moment coming in the future in which you will gain the control you need in order to feel at peace; You can never be free from fear as long as you see life as the source of your fear; We are looking for, and have a need for, a higher life that we cannot find in this world. The life that we find in this world will eventually be taken away.

Remastered Classic Talk: 06/22/16 - If someone can say something to you about yourself that causes you to crash and burn -- so that you never stop smoldering over what they have said -- it's only because you have yet to see the truth of yourself. Here's the fact that not only proves the above, but within it rests the only real solution to this kind of suffering: Any truth you realize about yourself cancels both the fear of that truth as well as the level of self that lives in fear of it.

Topic: Discover, Transcend and Transform the Tragic Flaw that Darkens Your Days (Classroom Talk 11/13/24)

Topics covered:  There is no becoming in the Kingdom of Heaven. In that Kingdom it is already done. You are separate from that Kingdom because of a misunderstanding about your true nature; "From unreality lead me to the real, from darkness to the light, from death to immortality." -- The Upanishads (circa 800 – 200 B.C.E.); Somehow you are going to have to die to everything that you think you are.

Topic: Escape the Invisible Prison Most People Pay to Live In! (Classroom Talk 11/22/23)

Topics covered: Spend less time trying to prove yourself, and more time BEING yourself. But "being yourself" is not what the world conditions all of us to believe; Connect the experiences that you don't want with the consciousness that creates those same experiences; Fear lies beneath the compulsion to be seen as someone important; What is important is to understand the importance of life. And what is most definitely NOT important is to...

Classroom Talk: 11/22/2023 - The "importance" of any given moment is inseparable from whatever may be the momentary sense of "self" responsible for lending it that significance. If we are to have any hope of realizing what is actually important in this life -- which is to see through the illusion of a separate self -- then we must be honest enough to admit the following truth: What really makes one moment seem more important than any other...