Freedom

Remastered Classic Talk: 11/2/16 - What we see, and take, as being the meaning of any given moment -- including our experience of it -- is a direct reflection of the level of self being revealed by that same moment. This invisible relationship between the observer and the observed is the "mirror of the Divine". And it is only in this relationship -- in this "mirror" -- that we are able to discover not only the meaning of Life, but what is also our original role within it.

Topic: Let Awareness of What You Feel Go Before You (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 9/24/25)

Topic: Enact This New Knowledge and Enter Into Real Freedom (Remastered Classic Talk)(Classroom Talk 4/30/25)

It's a great mistake to believe that negative imagination needs our involvement to trap us in fearful, conflicted, or otherwise angry states of self. The truth is just the opposite: our most familiar -- and often dominant -- sense of 'I' is shaped by the recurrence of these negative states; where our unconscious identification with this dark inner machinery is, in fact, the real source of our sense of captivity.

Remastered Classic Talk: 04/27/16 - The present moment is the door of perception -- and if, when you look through it, you see something you recognize -- or otherwise think you know -- then all you're really seeing is a reflection of your self upon the mirrored surface of the door. The true door of perception opens... only into the unknown.

Topic: How to Step Out of the Dark Waves of Any Unwanted Moment (Remastered Classic Talk)(Classroom Talk 3/26/25)

Remastered Classic Talk: 3/23/16 - Being responsible for our negative reactions begins with becoming aware of them. For instance, until we can observe and learn what it means to be consciously passive to our own negative reactions then what else can we do but go on identifying with them and embracing, by default, the false perception that someone or something else is responsible for our pain.

Remastered Classic Talk: 11/18/15 - Remember this one idea, whatever the circumstances you must face, and the day will dawn when you will know the freedom for which you seek: Your struggle is with yourself, and yourself only.

Remastered Classic Talk: 02/03/16 - You are responsible for every impression you make on others; however what they make of your work is no longer your responsibility.

Topics covered:  Until your attention is free, you are a captive of every condition that your attention falls on. To free your own attention means to possess your own attention; "You never enjoy the world aright till the Sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars, and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than so, because men are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you." -- Thomas Traherne (1637 – 1674)

Where is tomorrow's fear other than in today's imagination? And, if this is true -- and IT IS -- then what to do with our attention in the here and now? Let it be swallowed up in the dark shadow of what "may be"...or hold it in the Light of awareness where no shadow can dwell, let alone its fear?

Topics covered:  A "winner" according to the world is someone who gets what he or she wants. These "winners" then have to protect what has been won; Real freedom is to no longer feel the need to protect what you believe you have won; A real winner, in the higher sense, is someone who exits the moment with more understanding than when he or she entered into it.