Humility

When you see the poverty of your present fallen nature, the wish to have your attention on the divine and ask it to be with you naturally follows. The more aware you are of a pain that you can't push away, the more you are naturally in prayer.

Classroom Talk: 04/26/2026 - Just as the light of a candle can’t be moved by the shadows it casts, so is there within us a Light that can reveal and observe a reaction without being identified with it, let alone be moved by its shape or character.

Classroom Talk: 01/18/2026 - Most of us live an accidental life...where our actual condition is constantly covered up by the convenience of being able to regret whatever we look back on as the source of our pain. But let’s be clear. Our list of painful regrets is not due to a cruel world, bad timing, or unfortunate events that got the better of us; no, the fault lies elsewhere, much closer to home: not only are we blind to the legion of unconscious parts at large in the dark of us, but we are yet to see the other half of this same truth: these same parts never stop working to ensure that we never stop wrestling with the regrets they keep resurrecting within us. To what end, this painful plot? That we never become conscious of the relationship between a life we regret, and our identification with a lower level of consciousness that ensures its continuation.

Remastered Classic Talk: 07/17/2016 - We have but a single thing to do to satisfy the Soul and, in turn, fulfill her role in the Greater Plan of Creation. Our one True Task in Life is... to complete the moment as we are given to it. This is the first agreement; and in our obedience (to it) is found not only our freedom... but also the assurance of knowing that whatever sacrifice we must make to that greater end ensures all that follows is always in the best interest of everyone, and everything around us.

Topics covered: A new insight comes when we realize that we've gone as far as we can go with thought; We have an obstruction in our minds that we don't know about because we've already named the condition that caused the blockage; As above, so below; we are part of a celestial circulation system; Without emptiness, there would be no circulation and therefore no life; There's always a moment of empty space between resistance and the cause...

Classroom Talk: 8/18/2024 - When, before our inner eyes, we always have someplace better to be, or find ourselves struggling to "add a cubit to our stature," we miss seeing two great liberating truths: First, all imagined destinations are dreams whose promised fulfillment fades the nearer we draw to them...and secondly, blinded as we are by our hope in this "tomorrow" that never comes, we miss seeing - and realizing - that our True Self is a field of possibilities whose riches are not only immediate, but everlasting.

Topics covered: What can be new for us if we do nothing but look outside of ourselves in the attempt to confirm the image we have of ourselves?; To be a true "co-creator" simply means that you understand your relationship to the whole. It means that you understand your role within that whole; Most of us don't know that we are actually alive because our attention is fixated outside of ourselves measuring whether or not the moment can serve us...

Topics covered: It's impossible to die to the pain of our past... as long as we remain identified with an unconscious nature that can't seem to go through a day without reliving some dark memory it then summarily resists; We don't realize that we've agreed to give our attention to what pains us; Our mind doesn't go back and revisit the past. Our mind revisits the conditioned content of itself that it calls the past...