Attachment

If you haven't noticed this yet about yourself, it's easy to see in others: we each seem to carry the weight of the world on our shoulders. The nature of this burden may change with age. When young, we feel the weight of having to choose a direction in life. As adults, we feel encumbered by all the perceived requirements of an active life: trying to control events, win acceptance, maintain rel...

Are failures in life inevitable? Does the Higher Power, once attained, see to it that we only succeed? Try to understand the difference between living from something within yourself, whose nature is contentment itself, and living from those parts of yourself that are forever seeking contentment. For the man or woman who persists with the wish for Truth/God to be first in life, there reall...

Topics covered: Letting go has nothing to do with our exterior circumstances. What we have to let go of is anything that lends us an identity; There is no such thing as a healthy attachment. When there is a challenge to the attachment, then there is fear; With awareness of the pain of an attachment comes liberation from it; Letting go begins with awareness of how much it hurts to be attached. Awareness reveals the need to let go...

Key Lesson: There are as many memory-paved roads promising a new life as there are old thoughts trying once again to escape the consequences of themselves. The tragedy is that every road built by memory eventually circles back to the same familiar destination, because the traveler has never changed.

Topic: How to Stop Reliving All the Same Old Painful Experiences (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 6/10/26)

Topic: Use This New Self-Knowledge to Nullify Any Negative State (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 1/28/25)

Remastered Classic Talk: 11/11/15 - Just as a river is renewed -- each moment -- by the creeks and brooks that flow into it, so is our soul intended to be renewed by streams of Light, and all that they serve to reveal; of course... this assumes one thing: that we are empty enough -- each moment -- to receive this ceaseless flow of celestial impressions as they pour themselves into us.

Remastered Classic Talk: 8/3/16 - Authentic spiritual teachings are designed to do two things at once: first, to help us remember that our true nature -- Real "I" -- is an unconditional strength born of an unconditional love. But, the second part of this teaching -- equal in every way to the first, and why the vast majority of aspirants reject true interior teachings -- is as follows: we must also agree to see where some form of weakness...

Classroom Talk: 11/27/2024 - I've been a pirate...looting the hearts of any I could board and pillage for my pleasure. I've been a priest...consoling, and confusing any I could deceive and profit from by my practiced piety. I've been anyone...that everyone wanted me to be: I've danced for a drink, and lied without hesitation to ensure others my word is good. The truth is I've been everyone...but myself.

Classroom Talk: 9/18/2024 - There is no emptiness; there is no fullness. There is only their dance, in an endless turning. Open your eyes! See how they reel 'round and 'round, becoming the other without losing a step. Join the gathering. Everyone's invited, and it's free.