Desperation

Topics covered:  Whenever are carried away by a fear, regret, worry, or any other negative state, we are being swept away by the past. We are swept away by the past because, presently, we live in its realm; Within the realm of the past are all of the imaginings of better a time to come; We see the present moment we are in through the shadow of the past. We see the present moment through the eyes of the past.

Topic: To Be Free "Think 3" -- You, Me, and Thee (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 1/29/25)

Remastered Classic Talk: 01/27/16 - The only way it's possible to be punished by some mistaken action on our part... is if we make the second mistake: allowing the same level of self that we followed into that "pit" to condemn and then punish us for the very misstep that it first assured us was the right one to take!

Student Talks: 7/23/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Nothing serves to create a greater sense of isolation -- a feeling of being cut off from life -- than being at the center of your own thoughts about yourself; where you live out your days as a castaway on the "island of self" upon which you have, unknowingly, agreed to abandon yourself. Part 2: No worldly acclaim, possession, or relationship with...

Student Talks: 8/2/2019 - Key Lesson: The more we try to take from any given moment, the further away we are from the gift of realizing our real higher possibilities.

Classroom Talk: 3/31/2019 - The truth that sets us free -- but not until we see the fact of it -- is that we are never powerless; our first, and ultimately greatest limitation is that we don't know what real power is... let alone how to enter into its stream.

Fulfilling your true purpose in life -- finding unshakable strength and lastingcontentment -- has nothing whatsoever to do with anything that can beplanned.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of June 18, 2018. Our unconscious agreement to identify with the pain of any negative state - including the usual (anxious) rush to escape it - is one of the ways our false nature suffers - in vain - to prove (to itself) that whatever "self" it imagines, and then pretends to be is, in fact, real.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of May 28, 2018. It is from out of one's unconscious fear of death that comes the frustration, pain, and inevitable sense of regret born of trying to steal a feeling of being alive.

Classroom Talk: 7/18/2021 - Part 1: Nothing serves to create a greater sense of isolation -- a feeling of being cut off from life -- than being at the center of your own thoughts about yourself; where you live out your days as a castaway on the "island of self" upon which you have, unknowingly, agreed to abandon yourself. Part 2: No worldly acclaim, possession, or relationship with...

Classroom Talk: 2/6/2019 - Part 1: Before we can have a conscious relationship with what is Timeless, before we can know a "peace that passes all understanding," there must come a series of (conscious) shocks that prove the truth of the following to us: any imagined time, power, or possession to come...