Avoidance

Student Talks: 11/26/2021 - Key Lesson: The more we dwell on something in our life that we wish wasn't so, the more we soak ourselves in negative energies created by our own resistance. The longer we soak, the more we suffer; the more we suffer, the more we resist what seems to be the unwanted event when, in truth, what we are really drowning in... are the dark dreams of our own sleeping consciousness.

Topics Covered: The physical body has the ability to heal itself when we don't interfere. However, most of us are so distracted that we don't even know when our bodies are falling apart; Healing happens from the inside-out. Pain is asking to be healed; Why doesn't our interior, psychological body heal in the same way that the physical body does? If we could heal ourselves...

Topic: Walking Away from Worry, Conflict, and Fear Begins Within (10/21/20 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: What we are looking for is already within us, not outside of us. It is true that "the Kingdom of Heaven is within," but we don't know anything about that when we're afraid, anxious, and fighting with life; What if we could know -- whenever we find ourselves in some kind of pain -- without having to think about it, that what we were experiencing in that moment...

Classroom Talk: 10/21/2020 - The (spiritual) impetus to transcend our present level of self is granted in our first glimpse that what we really need is not a way to resolve, or outrun whatever punishes us... but rather to quietly – consciously – walk out of a dark and lower world inhabited by legions of self-limiting beliefs, including their...

Topic: How to Rise Above Any Pain That's Dragging You Down (9/16/20 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: Thought by itself cannot see the whole of anything; When we believe that we know why we are in pain, then there is blame. And the consciousness that blames is convinced that the reason for the pain is somewhere outside of itself; The blaming consciousness believes that it is separate from what disturbs it; The mind that blames has a future in which...

Classroom Talk: 9/16/2020 - Nothing keeps you more aware of a pain you don't want... than does your struggle to escape it. Learn to see what truth is trying to show you about your strengths, instead of listening to your weakness tell you where to hide.

Topics Covered: If you want to be safe, you must have concluded that you are not; The condition that we are being convinced to avoid is a conclusion that we have reached about it; Come to end of all that you can do for yourself, but don't let it end there; Thought can't understand the holy spirit; Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven; Love does not make a single demand...

Student Talks: 2/7/2020 - Key Lesson: We cannot run away from what we don’t want to see in ourselves, any more than a mirror can escape whatever is reflected in it. And yet, to see the truth of this fact (about our present level of consciousness) is the same as transcending it, along with its pain.

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)