Kindness / Compassion

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.

Classroom Talk: 12/20/2020 - Part 1: True compassion, unconditional kindness is our Divine, but largely unrealized capacity to "love our neighbor as our Self." These gifts of Grace are one and the same as (our) awakening to realize that, in reality, there is no separate self. Part 2: Any painful compulsion to teach someone else his or her...

Topics Covered: In order to change your relationships with others you must first change your relationship with yourself; Changing your reactions requires a certain kind of courage; A teacher doesn't talk to who you are, they talk to who you will be; You are made new in the moment you see what you've been; It's inappropriate for you to be negative over anything anyone else does; Why does it tak...

Part 1: If you can't give the whole of your attention to someone -- or anything, for that matter -- then you can't listen. If you can't listen, you can't possibly hear the whole story. And if you can't hear the whole story, then it's impossible to understand your role in its telling. Part 2: There are no lazy hearts or minds in heaven.