Who you really are lives above the world of thoughts and feelings. But living from the mental how, we seek answers for painful questions. Living in the spiritual Now, we understand that there is no intelligence in torment, so we simply drop those questions. The everyday mental life, which naturally includes asking how, has its practical place in the world of auto mechanics...
Negative states don't want to leave. They don't want to lead you to the end of a relationship with them. They want you to follow them so that they remain your guide, and essentially your god. That's what negative states want. So every time you're angry or frightened or worried and those thoughts and feelings are talking to you and you're listening to them and doing as they instruct...
If we were to take the whole human race and try to see its nature as being one creature, what kind of animal comes to mind for you? For me, the answer is evident: humankind most resembles an ostrich. When a disturbance comes along this creature sticks its head in the sand so as not to see what's taking place. This is not unlike closing our eyes in the hope that an approaching...
We each have, and operate from, a false nature that is a jumble of our memories, conditioning, and temperamental qualities. It is this unsuspected false nature that meets the world each day, responding to and interpreting each and every one of life's fluctuations. It is very important for us to begin to understand that of themselves these ever-changing conditions in life are neutral, but the false...
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Question: How do you integrate and apply the principle that "I am bigger than this moment" when your mind is programmed otherwise? How do you practice stopping reacting? Answer: You don't practice stopping reacting, you see that you can't stop reacting.
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Student Talks: 3/22/2024 - Key Lesson: Once we learn what it means to see ourselves, to accept every impression as the herald of the new self-knowledge that it brings, then we will not only understand what it means to welcome each such revelation - whether wanted, or not - but to receive, with grace, whatever we are given to see as being true about ourselves.
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Topic: Stop Struggling with Life and Set Yourself Free (Classroom Talk 2/21/24)
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Classroom Talk: 2/21/2024 - Spiritually speaking, we have but one problem: we are unable to see that the source of our conflict with life -- including the suffering it induces -- is inseparable from an unseen false belief, as follows: unless we keep struggling with unwanted moments, we'll never reach, let alone realize a time in our life... when we can finally rest from our struggles!
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Topics covered: Every step along the way to liberation is the same step: seeing the truth of yourself as you are in the present moment; Not one good thing has ever come out of impatience, irritability, resentment, or any other kind of negative state; We are not the way that we currently are because of any other person, any circumstance, any event, nor because of anything else outside of us...
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Classroom Talk: 8/16/2023 - One of the ways the unconscious, divided mind hides the pain inherent in its conflicted nature -- not to mention its inability to bring an end to its suffering -- is by repeatedly condemning itself for doing, repeatedly, the very thing it keeps telling itself it doesn't want to do again.
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Student Talks: 6/9/2023 - Key Lesson: Part 1: We cannot know the depth and breadth of our highest, heavenly possibilities as long as we fear to explore, realize, and release all that keeps us bound to this earth. Part 2: Our unconscious conditioning goes before us every moment, acting as the unseen judge, jury, and "executioner" of each, and every moment of our life.
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