Limitation

Classroom Talk: 11/30/2022 - The often-painful experience of any personal limitation is our awareness of a difference between some higher ideal we feel drawn to actualize... and our (present) inability to fulfill that possibility; but, to be clear, this pain is not -- though it often seems to be -- proof that we've gone as far as we can go! In truth, the revelation of any limitation is a Divine invitation to walk into...

Student Talks: 5/6/2022 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Until we can see that unconscious identification sits at the root of all useless suffering nothing real can change for us -- let alone within us -- save for what we're moved to imagine -- and then identify with -- as the next new solution to our pain. Part 2: False 'I' is a disease. Real I is the healing. Awakening is the prescription...

Topics covered: Individuals who understand the futility of trying to save their own life -- through thought -- will gain their life; We must learn to use the presence of psychological pain as an invitation to not just question the things we believe are valuable, but to launch an investigation into how we ever came to that conclusion; Whatever we have become identified with over the...

Student Talks: 3/11/2022 - Key Lesson: Coming to realize any limitation in our consciousness is not the denial of our passage into and through whatever may be the next stage of our inner development; all such revelations along the Way are, in fact, the threshold of an invisible door that -- if we will but dare to stand there -- knocking on it -- never fails to open, revealing a secret entrance...

Topics covered: If you are going to be skeptical, then be skeptical about the inevitability of the pain and suffering that comes with struggling against the world; There is useless struggle, and then there is useful struggle. The proper kind of useful struggle is to peer into yourself so as to discover the truth of yourself; We are captives of our ideas about what it means to be free.

Topic: Shatter the Painful Illusion of Self-Limitation (11/24/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: When we are in pain, physically and/or psychologically, there is usually no awareness of anything other than that pain; There can't be any healing for us as individuals as long as we are fooled by ignorance that continues to pass itself off as wisdom; A conscious human being will not hurt him or herself; The entire concept of "getting through a moment" is ultimately fueled by...

Classroom Talk: 11/24/2021 - Part 1: Our spiritual possibilities in this life are endless as is our willingness to intentionally meet, and then consciously work through whatever limitations we may discover along the Way. Part 2: Real life is not a "win or lose" proposition, but rather (it is) a Divinely ordained, ceaseless process of discovering new possibilities already within us...

Topic: Start Using the Limitations of Others to Realize Unlimited Strength (9/22/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: The strength of our reactions does not prove that we are in charge of ourselves; Without honesty, spiritual success is not possible; Anyone who habitually exhibits a negative limitation believes there is something unique and special about that quality. They actually believe that the limitation is a strength, that there is something good in it; There is nothing natural about...

Classroom Talk: 9/22/2021 - Part 1: The real reason for impatience with ourselves, or with any other... has nothing to do with what, or who is blamed for it: impatience -- along with its dark fraternal twin, frustration -- is born of unseen resistance to the sudden appearance of a limitation, including what is required of us to remain conscious (of it) until it's transformed.

Student Talks: 8/13/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Any sense of discouragement that wants to drag us down into its dark world, where it feeds on the feelings of hopelessness that it loves to create -- appears when, and as it does -- for a single reason: to keep us from realizing that there is no such thing as failure for those who will consciously walk into... and then through whatever may...