Topic: How to Outgrow the Feeling of Being Overwhelmed (Classroom Talk 4/27/22)

Topics covered: The right place and the right time is always right where you are right now; We've never tried NOT trying to fix the unwanted moment that we blame for our pain; What is concealed must be revealed in order for it to be healed; We express negativity when we don't know what else to do with a seemingly overwhelming moment; The more you don't want something...

Classroom Talk: 4/27/2022 - As surely as open skies can't be overcome by any cloud that may pass through them, neither can our True Nature be overwhelmed by any "dark" moment of life, regardless the shadow it seems to cast over it.

Topics Covered: Allow the pain to reveal what we can no longer profit from and must give up; You are supposed to be overwhelmed; What is Divine never shows us more than we are capable of seeing; Our task is to see what we are given to see; Dare to be present enough to explore the consciousness that doesn't want the pain; The most exciting discovery in the world...

Student Talks: 5/15/2020 - Key Lesson: There are many times when obstacles in our way prove more valuable than open roads...

Classroom Talk: 4/1/2020 - 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!

Topic: How to Welcome Any and Every Unwanted Moment in Your Life (3/11/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: How to Welcome Any and Every Unwanted Moment in Your Life (3/11/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 3/11/2020 - The mirror into which I gaze is not on the wall before me, it is within me... so that all I see (therein) is a reflection of my consciousness. To know this Truth is to throw open wide the window of the soul... That by the Light showing me this unity to be set free from the suffering inherent in the illusion of a separate self.

The big problem that we have is not that right ideas don't blow our mind from time to time, because sometimes they do. The problem is that our minds don't stay blown apart. We can't seem to sustain that sense of awe and proper gratitude. Only sustained immersion in the living higher principles and powers -- that real life is always freely giving -- can bring thought to a...

The rewards that we give ourselves are not real rewards. They're passing pleasures, momentary possessions, and fleeting feelings born out of an attempt to reduce or release oneself from a certain amount of tension. Because of this, the very act of rewarding ourselves is always incomplete and actually ties us to a certain unseen pattern of avoiding situations when they get "too hard." When you...