Negative States

Classroom Talk: 03/15/2026 -

Part 1: I can't speak to you of life without speaking to you of death; not the death we fear, but the fear we have of it. For to live in fear is to die in slow motion.

Part 2: Our principle fear is not what any moment may or may not bring, rather what we really fear in any unwanted moment is our reaction to it.

Classroom Talk: 02/15/2026 - It is impossible to imagine a better time to come without making more real a sense of self that is forever trying to escape the time within which it is trapped.

Classroom Talk: 05/25/2025 - It’s not by accident that we reach interim points of mounting resistance in our work to be free, any more than we accidentally meet the challenge of some uncertain, unstable ground that waits to be gained the nearer we come to the summit of a mountain.

Classroom Talk: 05/04/2025 -Spiritually speaking, the Light of awareness is the universal solvent.

Classroom Talk: 01/26/2025 - The path to self-perfection weaves its secret way through the land of imperfection, where only the conscious awareness of what we are shows us not just who and what we have been, but all that we are made to be...as we agree to be perfected right where we stand.

Classroom Talk: 6/23/2024 - The greatest possibility for incarnating the subtle energies required for transformation is best realized in moments of a heightened awareness that, in turn, appears at the same time and place of maximum resistance (to some unwanted moment).

Classroom Talk: 7/10/2022 - The problems and pains that plague a divided mind disappear in the same moment as they appear in a mind unified with itself.

Classroom Talk: 10/3/2021 - Part 1: Everything is temporary. Part 2: Resistance to any unwanted moment fixes, at once, an unwelcome sense of self that then feels stuck in the negativity it struggles to escape. Liberation from this sorrow begins as we awaken to realize a shocking truth: there is no psychological suffering that isn't rooted in some form of unconscious identification with...

Classroom Talk: 9/12/2021 - Part 1: What power has any painful moment over us save for having become unconsciously identified with our own negative reaction to it. Seen properly, this means the event we blame for our suffering is like looking in a mirror... and blaming the reflection for whatever we don't want to see in it! Part 2: Our willingness -- and the inner work it takes...

Classroom Talk: 3/28/2021 - If it feels like the same unwanted moments keep coming around... think again: reality never repeats itself; creation is always new. To know why life seems to repeat itself -- and painfully so -- we need look no farther than to see how instantly identified we become with our (own) recurring negative reactions.