Contentment

Freedom, real freedom, does exist. But it is not a condition of events, nor is it found within another person's approval of us. Neither is real freedom ever a mere effect of circumstances, otherwise it is not freedom but merely a temporary pleasure we have mistaken for being the same as being free...

We're always trying, one way or the other, to grab and maintain something that will make us feel safe and whole forever. The pursuit of that wholeness, of that security, is through what we commonly call "powers." When we think of our security, we think of the powers that we must have to maintain it -- whether it's trying to please other people, trying to have, keep, and gain more possessions, or struggling to get some kind of control over a relationship or...

How would you like to live from a nature where no matter what happens, no matter what comes at you, as soon as whatever it is lands on you, it's changed into something good? "Oh gosh, wow! You mean I could live from a part of myself where it wouldn't matter what it was that came to it -- no matter how dark, fearsome, hateful, worried, angry, no matter what it was -- as soon as it touched me...

Depending on how the day breaks for us, we often find ourselves feeling discontent about our life, experiencing any or all of the following conditions whenever we: Find ourselves unable to change or control someone near to us. Take a close look at our physical appearance and find we are somehow lacking. Run headlong into self-compromising behaviors beyond our seeming strength or ability to change...

Topic: Being Content and at Peace with Yourself in the Time of Covid (3/24/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: The kind of change we are seeking always starts with a feeling whose origin is a mystery. The change does not begin nor come about through thinking; The healing power of what is true requires a surrender to what it is showing you about yourself; Our present way of living involves investing our happiness and dreams in the idea of a better tomorrow, so that we don't live now...

Classroom Talk: 3/24/2021 - Part 1: There is an order, an unshakable peace we can know... but only if and as we agree to its Presence in us. And when we are aligned with its "place" in Time, everything is done for us, exactly as it should be, in its time. Part 2: One cannot create clarity; it can only be seen as already being in place.

Topics Covered: Pride is inseparable from identification and attachment; Thought is always superficial; Thought is a buffer; Animals are at peace with themselves; Why can't I sit still; There's no noise in Being that Being doesn't use to further ground it in its own nature; Peace is understanding that disturbance has a purpose that the mind can never know but that your soul is designed to be a...