Self-observation is the key to a higher order of awareness; it is how we learn to become inwardly vigilant to our own thoughts and feelings, even as they pass through us. When we can observe ourselves in this new way, our higher nature naturally prevails over any troubling thoughts or feelings that want to drag us down into their lower world...
What happens when we see things about ourselves that we don't want to see? In order to avoid looking at itself, the mind will seize on the anger, impatience, grief, loneliness, or anxiety it has seen... and it will try to explain it. It will take the initial darkness, the negative energy, and because it seems to be so bad, the mind will make something out of it that it can deal with...
Have you ever noticed that when you're under the cloud of some negative state, what you do to try to "make things better" actually makes the situation worse? Struggling to free yourself from your own negative reactions is a bit like throwing gasoline onto a fire, isn't it? Recognizing that you get trapped in this pattern of taking action that neither relieves nor rescues you from...
Do we not try to escape the stress we have by further imagining ways to relieve ourselves from the circumstances held responsible for it? And the more we do to create for ourselves an enclave in which we will no longer be confronted with the trouble, the more we isolate ourselves, and the greater the problem becomes because we increasingly resist anything not part of what we've..."
Topic: 3 Real Wishes that Bring Real Results (Classroom Talk 7/26/23)
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Classroom Talk: 7/26/2023 - Why waste time wishing on a star for a "better time" to come... when it's possible for you to know that you are a wish made by a star.
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Topic: The Truth that Sets You Free Begins the Moment You Agree to See It! (Classroom Talk 7/5/23)
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Classroom Talk: 7/5/2023 - Part 1: If you want to catch a glimpse of Heaven just stop looking away from whatever truths may be revealed in its silent Light. Part 2: No matter how fast, or far we may run, it is impossible to out-distance, let alone hide from what we don't want to see in ourselves!
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Topic: What to Do If You're Tired of Living in Fear (Classroom Talk 5/17/23)
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Classroom Talk: 5/17/2023 - The more we look for ways to protect ourselves from fear, the greater grows our inability to see its increasing authority over our heart, mind, and soul.
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Topic: How to Escape the Trap of Wants Without End (Classroom Talk 3/9/22)
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Classroom Talk: 3/9/2022 - We can either resign ourselves to the negative experience of encountering one unwanted moment after another, or we can work to see -- and free -- ourselves from an unconscious nature that loves to arrange these meetings of the always miserable kind.
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