Life does not come at us from the outside in, even though that is the way we've always seen it. Once we understand this, we'll see the mistake we've been making all along about the true meaning of strength. Currently, we have a list of things we want to overcome: our past; our failure to acquire what we believe we need; a pressing world that has it in for us. We've identified these...
When you look at a flower in springtime, standing there with its beautiful petals and leaves, can you understand that flower is not the life alone that you see coming out of the ground? That flower belongs to a much greater life than the individual expression that you behold and say, "Isn't that beautiful?" You could never experience the radiance of the flower or utter those words if it...
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Classroom Talk: 8/23/2023 - The majority of would-be aspirants believe the "heaven" they imagine is the same as being in the presence of an unimaginable level of Self. And when -- as it must happen -- they are "rudely" awakened from their dreams, they do what comes naturally: they go back to sleep, hoping to find the comfort of another new shelter, in yet another make-believe world.
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Classroom Talk: 9/28/2022 - Any lingering form of painful psychological resistance to some unwanted experience of life is the unconscious rejection of spiritual atonement.
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Classroom Talk: 6/9/2021 - There can be no end to what we fear, only an end to fear itself.
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Classroom Talk: 12/29/2019 - Every signpost that seems to point the way to the Holiness we seek must be seen for being the illusion that it is...For there exists no direction in passing time, let alone a doorway seen as outside of us that opens into the Living Now.
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