Attention Exercises

Student Talks: 10/14/2022 - Key Lesson: Without an anchor, a ship is carried off by any shallow current or wave that passes beneath its bow. And so it is with us... as long as we try to navigate through this life without being able to anchor our attention in a place of our own choosing.

Topics covered: There is no condition outside of yourself that is responsible for your negative reactions; What you want is presently the most important thing in your life. But the truly most important thing that you have been given is your attention; As goes your attention, so comes your experience. As goes your experience, so comes your sense of self...

Topics Covered: Until there is a new awareness of consciousness, the divided consciousness is the observer; The observer never judges, instead the observer sees the judge; Explaining the reaction is the same as avoiding awareness of it; A hurricane serves the broader celestial system; The divided consciousness only wants awareness of something for the sake of what it wants...

Classroom Talk: 10/9/2022 - Without an anchor, a ship is carried off by any shallow current or wave that passes beneath its bow. And so it is with us... as long as we try to navigate through this life without being able to anchor our attention in a place of our own choosing.

Topics covered: Spiritual story about a knight who goes to rescue a princess imprisoned in a cave guarded by two chained dragons; Anything that is created is incomplete because it is connected to all other life; The activities we engage in is this unconscious nature trying to complete itself from the content of itself; All seeking starts on a false premise; What we seek is not the problem...

As goes your attention, so comes your experience. As goes your attention, so comes your possibilities; All possibilities already exist within consciousness; Instead of being aware of all of our relationships, we presently think about our relationships; We presently experience the world only from the outside-in, whereby the outside world must line up with ideas of how events should unfold...