Unlike the untold billions of other life forms teeming on the Earth -- whose nature is an open and shut case -- human nature is not fixed. What does this mean to you? Only everything! The tiger, the horse, and the bird, must express their nature. They have no real choice. And even though they may be free to choose which part of the jungle, or open range, in which they want to feed and...
There is an endless hole in the heart of most of us; a pit that demands our faithful daily service and that causes us, in our compulsion to fill it, to be pitiless towards those who stand in the way of this endless ambition. Most of us will spend our lives as slaves to this psychic abyss, driven in one form or another to satisfy in ourselves what can only be satisfied by our continuing struggl...
Topics covered: The unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat; Your highest aspirations are reflections of your unrealized possibilities; All that we need to know to grow beyond who we are is already a part of our true nature; The seeker undergoes the interior search after he or she negates all of the other exterior seeking; The mind is not interested with getting beyond the mind.
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Topics covered: Real freedom is not something that we obtain from the world. Real freedom comes about through understanding our true relationship with the world; Real freedom does not have a beginning or an end. Real freedom is now or never; A thousand imagined freedoms eventually turn into a thousand prison cells. But ultimately it's all illusion and all the same prison cell.
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Topics covered: Spiritual parables and symbols are intended to convey celestial principles that words cannot explain; One of the chief deceptions that we fall for is that something is missing from our lives, and that we will be able to acquire it in a time to come. As a result, we don't want anything that gets in the way of that ambition; We spend our lives trying to possess what we perceive to be good, and avoid anything that is judged to be bad.
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Topic: Set Down Your Struggles and Be... Free (Classroom Talk 9/27/23)
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Classroom Talk: 9/27/2023 - You can't learn how to be; it's impossible. But you can see through the futility of the endless struggle to make yourself (feel) real. So, yes: it's hard to die to the hope that some time yet to come holds the key, but it does get easier the more you realize that whatever freedom you've imagined... doesn't exist without the fear that it doesn't.
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Student Talks: 8/4/2023 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Faith flowers into Love; Love is the fulfillment of faith. Part 2: To live with the perpetual fear you may "do the wrong thing"... is to be doing the wrong thing that you fear. Part 3: Whatever may be the welcome appearance of some familiar path promising to lead you away from a moment in life that you fear, be not mistaken...
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Topics covered: Imitation is fear, and the purpose of life that we learned from the world is imitation; Fear is an invisible prison, but our minds see the prison as being the opposing conditions that we run into when we are looking for freedom; You believe in your captivity because fear always tells you that you can escape; The divided mind lives in constant fear of losing what it believes will make it fearless...
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