Topic: Practice the Purpose of Each Moment and Find the Peace You Seek (10/6/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Practice the Purpose of Each Moment and Find the Peace You Seek (10/6/19 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 10/6/2019 - The more we awaken to realize our true role in life is to fill the gap between "what is" with "what has been" -- by agreeing to die to any part of us that would otherwise interfere with its atonement -- the more we see the truth that sets us free: our willingness to make this sacrifice aligns us, on the spot, with an ineffable peace...

Human beings walk around in a kind of self-made suffering that is the expression of something in us that is afraid of seeing ourselves as we are. We've come to think that avoiding a unwanted fact about ourselves is the same as escaping the effects. Our lives should be a ceaseless realization of where we miss the mark, because that is the only way to transcend the idea that...

Topics covered: Real love isn't selfish; Our minds are undeveloped; We start every moment from an assumption of strength; Everything you can see going on within you is beneath the self that can see; Who and what you really are is out of the ordinary, but we live from an ordinary self; You're so anxious because you're always trying to prove yourself; Nothing in you needs to be protected....

Topic: Real Healing Begins With Realizing That You Are Not "Broken" (5/5/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Real Healing Begins With Realizing That You Are Not "Broken" (5/5/19 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 5/5/2019 - Part 1: It is impossible to "fix" yourself, let alone do the same with the whole of your life. However, it is possible to use every unwanted moment you meet to realize a truth... that sets you free: Real Life can't be broken, any more than a crashing wave shatters the shore upon which it breaks. Each reveals and serves...

There are unique challenges for the human being who wants to have a relationship with the source of his or her being. We try to control events outside of us in a futile attempt to find a fearless life, when our energy would be better spent attending to our inner lives. Yet at the same time we are in a body and we do need to take care of our basic householder responsibilities...

Topics Covered: Relationship between mother and child; What did you have to do with your own birth?; We meet people from a limited understanding of ourselves; Whatever is buried in you is food for your development; Judgement is based on resistance to an instantaneous reaction of a pain we don't know what to do with; Deep and hidden pain carried over from childhood

Classroom Talk: 2/20/2019 - Part 1: It's impossible to change any moment that we complain about because - for one thing - the unwanted moments over which we complain do not even exist apart from the level of consciousness that always finds fault with their appearance. Part 2: The more we complain about any unwanted condition in life, the more certain we can be...

Topics Covered: The more you speak something with all of yourself, the more all of you becomes what you speak; The past doesn't trail you, it meets the moment with you; We currently use our relationships to validate ourselves, but we're meant to use them for revelation; I don't want to meet the pain, I don't want to meet the moment as I am; The strength of God is connected to my weakness; Your...