Beauty

Student Talks: 11/29/2024 - Every shocking revelation that we are given to see about ourselves is -- at its heart -- an unseen act of mercy; it is the herald of an order of forgiveness unimaginable to the human mind.

Topics covered:  You keep looking to the order of this world to save you, hoping that some new law will fix everything that is wrong. The laws that you look to in order to rescue you are the very things that beats you down; A negative state happens when the laws that you cling to are broken by anyone or anything that doesn't agree with your law; Until you understand that order comes before laws, you will look to laws to reestablish order.

Student Talks: 1/7/2022 - Key Lesson: Much as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so it holds true: our experience of any given moment -- for its light or darkness -- its joy or sorrow -- is cast in the image of the consciousness momentarily awakened to reflect upon itself.

Topics Covered: Waiting for the other shoe to drop; Catch a glimpse of the message; Wisdom never dies; Protecting yourself from your own mortality is a fool's errand; Opposites come out of a unity; Recognize that the reaction is the answer to the challenge of the moment; Struggle consciously to wait where the message can reach you; Don't try to free yourself, that is what reactions do...

Student Talks: 5/17/2019 - Key Lesson: In a world of unconscious beings -- steeped in an ever-increasing immorality -- self love is worshipped as Godliness; where, for the sleeping masses, hypocrisy -- practiced to perfection -- passes for goodness. It has always been this way, so that anyone who comes to shed light on the...