Lower Nature

Which would you rather have: a treasure room that is filled with an old potato, a worn-out shoe, and a dented can of Spam... or a room filled with precious stones, rare silks, and a chest of gold? It seems like a silly question, and yet... why do you choose a mind and heart filled with dark thoughts, anxiety, anger, and self-doubt when you could have a mind and heart...

Remastered Classic Talk: 11/18/15 - Remember this one idea, whatever the circumstances you must face, and the day will dawn when you will know the freedom for which you seek: Your struggle is with yourself, and yourself only.

Student Talks: 2/07/2025 - Nothing created has (a) weakness that isn't (already) married to a strength that fulfills its purpose. The only exception to this celestial law is found in an unconscious nature that imagines it has some strength of its own, and that - for having become identified with the illusion of this false image - lives in constant fear of anything that comes along to challenge its dream.

Classroom Talk: 5/22/2024 - It's impossible to let go of any painful moment until we lose interest in the troubled sense of self that we are deriving from it! So that the real secret of letting go begins with seeing how (our own) unconscious nature doesn't just reach to "catch" the experience it says it doesn't want, but then clings to it...

Topics covered: When without falling into any form of despair, depression, or regret, you begin to lose all interest in looking for yourself in any image or belief - because the taste of yourself no longer tastes good to you - that's when you begin to wake up; The mind sees in parts -- sometimes through our intellect, sometimes emotion, sometimes sensation; Lower nature is constructed so as to identify with the parts of the whole, not the whole...

Classroom Talk: 4/22/2020 - Truth, like sunlight, radiates out, pouring down ceaselessly from the "emptiness" of The Great Unknown into the fullness of how we experience it... as something temporarily "known." But, don't miss the point: without emptiness, nothing flows. We mustn't allow the fear of empty space to deceive us into...

Classroom Talk: 1/16/2019 - The priceless Gift of Life can't be freely received -- as it is forever being freely offered -- as long as we meet it with any demands upon it.