Patience

Topics covered:  We have been educated, inculcated, and conditioned to believe that our task is always to appear as if we know who we are and what we're doing, and anything that would challenge that is immediately seen as an enemy. But in this work, that nature that would hide its weakness is the enemy, because it ensures that we never bring into the light of understanding that which alone can change and transform that nature that lives with that kind of weakness and works to hide it; A weakness becomes a strength when it changes everything that individual is in relationship with. Anything that changes inside of a person changes the whole relationship they're in from that moment forward.

Topics covered: Being aware that something is always trying to make God's business into its own business; Everything in one way or another always seems to revolve around "me" and it isn't going to stop by itself; The Work has always been about Metanoia, a turning around; It's a law that the moment you want to be someone other than who you are you're guaranteed to remain who you've been

Classroom Talk: 5/28/2023 - Realize the amount of pain in your impatience, and in that revelation you will also know the extent to which you're deceived about who you are, and the true purpose of (your) life.

Classroom Talk: 2/14/2021 - Much as a jeweler uses his grinding wheel to remove any rough edges remaining on an otherwise perfect gem, so all of our relationships are designed to help "polish" one another's heart... that they might more perfectly reflect a higher order of Love whose power helps heal all involved.

Classroom Talk: 11/28/2018 - In our patience we discover not only the path to . . . but also the perfection of freedom.