Kindness / Compassion

Part of what we have not been able to remember and use in our spiritual work is the fact that everyone around us is just like us. All the people in our lives -- even people walking by us on the street -- are seen by us (in our present way of experiencing life) as being disparate, something different to condemn or condone, to embrace or push away based on what we perceive in them. What we don't...

Between our known negative reactions towards those who we perceive to have offended us, and that healing unknown Love that restores us to the truth of each other, is hidden a kind of conscious changing ground... an inner realm whose entrance is gained by willing intention to Love, and whose sanctuary is won through self-sacrifice. Have you ever been so upset, so disturbed by someone, that i...

Topics covered: There is no moment that does not have meaning. Every moment has meaning. The pain that we have experienced in most moments has been due to not understanding the meaning of the moment; We cannot be in psychological pain without resistance, which points to something outside of you as being responsible for the pain. The pain cannot be separated from the resistance...

Helping each other is waking up. The illusion is that we are all separate, individual people. As I'm awakened in myself to myself, I see the consciousness that is acting within me and know that I can't go along with it. And if I can't enable it in myself, I can't enable it in others either. Through your growing self-awareness you start to see what serves you and what doesn't.

Topic: Don't Be Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 6/24/26)

Topics covered: Independence is innocence. When a person is truly independent, he or she is rooted in an incorruptible nature that seeks nothing outside of itself; An act of true kindness can't be disturbed. An act of true kindness does not place any demands upon the recipient of that kindness. Kindness does not look for confirmation or validationk; The nature that is not aware of itself depends on conditions and people outside of itself to confirm its sense of self.

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Topic: By What It Gives Itself To... Is The Heart Filled (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 11/19/25)