Honesty

Putting our life in God's hands does not mean that we hand Him our wish list for life, but rather that we make His life our wish. When God's will becomes our sole wish in life, then whatever happens to us not only fulfills our wish, but we realize it has always been our wish right from the start.

The Divine knows we are ready to see the true solution to our suffering only when - and as - we realize we must no longer make excuses for any moment when, and where we miss the mark.

Whenever painful events happen, they tend to fall on only one of two sides of a person. The first side is the denial side. When turning this way, refusal rules. Regret, self-pity, and endless explanations generally follow. Or, the unwanted moment falls on the angry side, where the turning is to burning. Resentment rages. Hatred and feelings of betrayal mushroom into....

Student Talks: 9/20/2024 - Key Lesson: Hanging onto a handful of anxious, worried thoughts to protect you from what they point to as a fearful moment to come, is like wrapping your arms around the anchor of a sinking ship because there's nothing left on deck for you to cling to as it goes down!

Classroom Talk: 7/3/2024 - Honesty heals; lies hurt. In these four words live all one needs to know and practice—that is, assuming one wishes to be whole, harmless, loving, and true.

Classroom Talk: 2/9/2022 - Seen properly, only self-liberation is possible; this highest form of freedom begins with being completely honest in all of our relationships, but especially as concerns the one we have with ourselves.

Classroom Talk: 7/14/2021 - Whoever lies... cries; and not just in that moment, but in every moment thereafter; as when, by fear, we feel compelled not just to defend some past self-compromising choice... but also because we continue to participate in an unconscious act that's not only set against our own best interests... but, ultimately, against the Good of all.

Classroom Talk: 5/12/2021 - Just as all the qualities of the ocean can be found in a single drop of its water, so do all the infinite expressions of consciousness -- high and low, light and dark -- dwell within our True Self: each and all… a drop of the Divine.

Student Talks: 8/7/2020 - Key Lesson: Here’s why no spiritual “secret” -- in and of itself -- has the power to transform, let alone raise our consciousness in any meaningful way: no self-knowledge, regardless how subtle, can serve its true purpose unless it is accompanied by the one element capable of actualizing it: consistent, persistent self-honesty.

Student Talks: 3/27/2020 - Key Lesson: We must abandon all solutions about what to do with our suffering that don’t change anything... but themselves.

Classroom Talk: 3/8/2020 - Just as beauty is not a concept -- and love isn’t an act of thought -- neither is the Answer to the Question of each passing moment something that can be known with the mind alone. Either the Answer appears with the question, or both the question and the answer have been missed.

Classroom Talk: 2/16/2020 - Rather than look outside of ourselves for familiar ways to escape old heartaches, let us turn our attention around... and choose, instead, to become aware of a (lower) level of consciousness that secretly enables the continuation of (our) suffering. In this new action, and the Light of revelation it creates...