Joy

Topics covered: We don't want to escape our consciousness, we want to transform it. Negative thoughts and feelings don't need to be overcome, they need to be understood; You cannot resist something and learn about it at the same time. To resist is to separate, to push away; The problem with our attention is not that there are too many distractions. The problem is that we do not possess our own minds. Until we possess our own attention...

Topics covered: The spiritual path is the path of negation, not affirmation. You must lose your life in order to gain it; Immortality is the gradual realization that you are already whole; We were raised to believe that our worth is based upon how others see us; We were raised to believe that there should never be any disturbances; When the observer and the observed are not separate for us, we are a participant in creation, rather than the observer...

Topics covered: The greatest joy in life is to realize ourselves as the experience of creation itself; The happiest moments in my life are when I experience life as it's being given, which is meant to be an unending process; At a certain point in our lives it becomes evident that what I do and create and manifest are not enough. It's an endless race; We can't change the situations we have in life...

Topics covered: We can have a completely different kind of life; Real joy is only found when we at last begin to suspect that the world's ideas of joy are conditional and subject to passing time; Experiences that we create for ourselves are based in a set of conditions that, under law, will change; What it means to experience creation itself and our role and place in this broader life.

The only thing a thousand failed attempts to find the peace we seek proves is this: some unknown part of us -- we've mistaken as being us -- keeps us looking in all the wrong places! This is why we must have new, true self-knowledge, because the journey to silent joy begins within us, or not at all.

Student Talks: 9/29/2023 - Key Lesson: True joy is uncalled for; it is like a breeze you didn't know you were waiting for; a silence that speaks of things eternal; (it is) to experience and realize the completion of something within you that you didn't even know was missing.

Topics covered: Real joy is connected to a new kind of willingness to participate in what we could call "Divine Being"; The consciousness that dreams about greatness does not know anything about true greatness; Everything that the mind thinks is greatness is a poor substitue for the timeless greatness that has already been prepared for you; The joy of being useful is about understanding your role...

Topics covered: Any moment of seeing a truth changes the nature of the seer; You really give something up when you have nothing to replace it; When you really understand something, it is a moment of something new being born out of something that has come to an end; The acronym "FBRS" from the doctor story stands for "Fixed By Resistance Syndrome"; When you don't want a condition...

Topic: Go Beyond Fear and Sorrow By Being All That You Are (2/3/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: The extent to which something in us judges ourselves and others seems to prove to us the extent to which we are in the right; We are not on the Earth to prove ourselves to anyone. Instead we are here to use the moments we are given to discover what is true about ourselves; Addictions are produced by identification with an unseen image from which an identity is...

Classroom Talk: 9/24/2023 - True joy is uncalled for; it is like a breeze you didn't know you were waiting for; a silence that speaks of things eternal; (it is) to experience and realize the completion of something within you that you didn't even know was missing.