Judgment

Spiritually speaking, all relationships serve one purpose: self-knowledge. And self-knowledge, in turn, serves a single purpose: discovering the truth of oneself: an inner awakening that serves still a higher purpose: rebirth...the reconciliation, and fulfillment of all relationships.

Topics covered: If you respond to a truth that you have read or heard, it is because there is a corresponding part in you that is a reflection of that truth; Resistance comes before any negative reaction. And the source of unconscious resistance is unconscious comparison; Whatever it is that resists any disturbance is already there in our consciousness before the event. The disturbance simply stirs the nature that resists it.

Topics covered: The reason that life has stopped being precious to us is because we live in constant judgment of everyone and everything; When you really want to understand something, you don't try to understand it with thought only; Our lives are presently shaped by incessant thinking and judgment, which is why our lives are misshapen; Have you ever found freedom from...

Topics covered: As a rule, human beings know more about their iPhone than they know about the 'i' that is running their lives; It is never useful to judge another person. It is never useful to judge yourself; Nothing ever changes when you judge yourself. And judging yourself is not the same as seeing a true fact about yourself; The more that you judge yourself, the easier it becomes to judge yourself...

Topics Covered: There is no such thing as true love without exchange; The level of love that we presently know is limited to conditions and events being in agreement with the defintion of love according to that level of consciousness. Is there another kind of love that does not turn into its opposite when conditions change?; The unnecessary pain in any moment is produced...

Topics Covered: What we do against ourselves is done in the dark of ourselves; but whatever is done in the dark of ourselves is negated by the light; There is a part of ourselves that cannot wait to judge itself; Negative states hide themselves in the guise of a "good" judge; Suffer the judge instead of making someone else suffer because of the judge; The lower consciousness hides...

Topics Covered: True teachings awaken the aspirant to what already lives in them; Freedom is an inclusive state, never an exclusive one; The one thing we almost never doubt is the certainty that we feel when we are negative; the certainty is that the cause of the negativity is somewhere outside of ourselves; Whatever we resist has to first be judged and found to be wrong...

Student Talks: 5/22/2020 - Key Lesson: Blame does NOT work. Any solution based in blame only postpones the moment when we'll blame again. There is nothing to blame for how we feel; there's only what we've yet to realize about our present level of consciousness. Seeing this (as true) places responsibility for our experience...

We judge others in the vain attempt to separate ourselves from our own negative reaction to them. This is like believing that turning our back on something we don't want to see in a mirror changes whatever it is that we'd rather not see in it.

Topics covered: Discussion of the live-streamed series on Authentic Change; Looking for advice on mediumship and healing with one's hands; Is all light Divine light; Is there a greater Good above the opposites of what we know as good and bad; What is the purpose of biblical scripture; Is it judgmental to end a relationship because of the other person's addiction; How do I cultivate love for th...