False Self

The experience of what we are in the moment is always the product of comparison. Presently, what "I am" is always measured against something else, so that my identity begins divided. But our true nature is not something that our minds can think about, and cannot therefore be the product of any comparison. The great lesson that life is always teaching individuals is to let go of being who or w...

Most people are interested in the topic of reincarnation because they hope that there is a chance that they can get away from themselves. We hope there's a chance that we can come back into something better than they left. But it does not work that way. Resistance creates the illusion what is resisted is not a part of our lives. Whatever we don't want is carried over, again and again. Resista...

There is something in us that actually enjoys feeling stressed. We must discover that we live with an opposing self. We can catch moments of opposition by coming back to ourselves.

Student Talks: 07/10/2026 - The only way we will ever know that death is an invisible doorway into another level of being  – Higher or lower, depending – is if we do the interior work – here and now – of dying to an unconscious nature whose “will to live” – we’ve mistaken as being the same as our own.

Remastered Classic Talk: 12/2/15 - 

Part 1: Awakening to the presence of some weak, or otherwise painful character at large within us marks the beginning of the end of its command over us.

Part 2: The longer one is able to observe oneself -- all parts of oneself, unadorned -- the less interest one has in being identified with any of these (separate) parts while, at the same time, the more willingly does one commit to do the inner work it takes to witness them.

Student Talks: 10/31/2025 -The Real Gift of Life is the grace to see that each moment -- inseparable from our awareness of it -- is always complete in and of itself. And further, that whenever we act as a silent witness to that revelation -- quietly observing whatever new form of life is conceived within it -- we too are completed and renewed, accordingly.

Student Talks: 8/1/2025 - No condition that our unconscious nature imagines into existence can change, let alone liberate that level of self that, out of fear, finds itself compelled to imagine it... in order to feel secure!

Topics covered: Your body is a kind of temple with cornerstones that belong to your mind, heart, body, and the awareness of those three, for the purpose of holding right ideas together; Your lives are too scattered, not because the world is scattered, but because your mind is divided; Your work is about discovering how empty the opposites of “want” and “not want” are when they’re not together. Nothing can really change until you begin to...

Topic: Two Simple Steps to Walk Away From Fear, Anger and Any Sorrow (Remastered Classic Talk)(Classroom Talk 7/2/25)

Remastered Classic Talk: 06/22/16 - If someone can say something to you about yourself that causes you to crash and burn -- so that you never stop smoldering over what they have said -- it's only because you have yet to see the truth of yourself. Here's the fact that not only proves the above, but within it rests the only real solution to this kind of suffering: Any truth you realize about yourself cancels both the fear of that truth as well as the level of self that lives in fear of it.

Student Talks: 05/30/2025 - It’s not by accident that we reach interim points of mounting resistance in our work to be free, any more than we accidentally meet the challenge of some uncertain, unstable ground that waits to be gained the nearer we come to the summit of a mountain.

Topic: The First Step in Coming Out of the Unconscious "self" (Remastered Classic Talk)(Classroom Talk 2/19/25)