Intelligence

The reason that we don't have peace is because of the way in which our present minds view the experiences we have with others and within ourselves. Our present nature takes everything personally. In fact, most of us don't know how to do anything other than to take something personally...

Self-observation is the key to a higher order of awareness; it is how we learn to become inwardly vigilant to our own thoughts and feelings, even as they pass through us. When we can observe ourselves in this new way, our higher nature naturally prevails over any troubling thoughts or feelings that want to drag us down into their lower world...

Question: In this time of economic downturn, is there anything to say to those of us who have experienced losing a job or a home? I don't know what to say to my friends and coworkers who are suffering. It's easy to tell them that the universe will provide and that something better will come along when I'm not the one in their position. Any words of wisdom would be appreciated.

Self-observation is the key to a higher order of awareness; it is how we learn to become inwardly vigilant to our own thoughts and feelings, even as they pass through us. When we can observe ourselves in this new way, our higher nature naturally prevails over any troubling thoughts or feelings that want to drag us down into their lower world...

Student Talks: 4/28/2023 - Key Lesson: Once we realize that living within the limits of the known is the same as the limitation of our spiritual possibilities, there is no recourse other than to depart the safety of all that we have been... in favor of discovering all that we're created to be.

Topics covered:We get into trouble because we keep putting ourselves in the hands of an unconscious part of us that says, "Now I know what I have been doing wrong"; The first step of going beyond what is false is to recognize it as being false; What makes us so sure that we are right? What we KNOW. Our certainty. This is what sets us against other people and against life itself.

Topic: Free Yourself from the Fearful World of These False Ideas (12/8/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: Where do useless thoughts come from? Useless thoughts are the offspring of false, failed ideas. The outcome of continuing to follow a failed idea is a failed result; Our best ideas about what it means to be strong have proven to be useless; An example of a false idea is that finding a way to comfort yourself is the same as being content with yourself...

Classroom Talk: 12/8/2021 - Truthful ideas never need to be validated by others; they neither fear close scrutiny, nor avoid the light of any moment that calls for it. False ideas can never stand alone; they tremble whenever life questions their intelligence, mistaking the sudden onset of painful resistance as proof of their strength.

Topic: Discover the Invisible Path of Perfect Action (4/14/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: Instead of being used by the world, use the world to discover your purpose for being here; There is no power in the universe that has the authority to make you act against yourself or others; How do we stop harming ourselves and others? Start being harmless. Be in the right place in yourself, doing the right thing; What we really seek cannot be found in any condition...

Classroom Talk: 4/14/2021 - Hidden within the opposing forces is a Light -- a quiet Intelligence -- that cannot be induced to act against itself. Awakening to... and becoming aware of this Wisdom releases one from the bondage born of struggling to be, or not to be. Understood properly, all such opposing forces contain and reveal their own gateway...