Peace

Student Talks: 2/5/2021 - Key Lesson: The more we will deliberately work to take time out of our day to remember -- and embrace -- what we know is Timeless and True, the more aware we will become of an Indwelling Light whose perfect grace reveals the means and the way to be made new... and new again.

Topics Covered: We presently spend too much time in worldly pursuits because we don't know that there is another world that sits above this present level of consciousness; Real peace cannot be interrupted. Real peace looks for nothing and wants for nothing; Most of our attention is dedicated to a "time to come" in which there will be a "me" that will find peace and be free...

Topic: Take the Secret Path that Leads to Perfect Peace (1/13/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: We are dependent upon any condition that we think will grant us independence. That is a recipe for fear; True independence can be found within the very feeling of impermanence that a part of us fears; Our longing for freedom belongs to another order of consciousness that is already free. To long for something is to want to close the distance between ourselves...

Classroom Talk: 1/13/2021 - What is real spiritual strength? It is knowing that we need never (again) compromise ourselves in any way -- with anyone, or over anything -- in order to be at peace: (it is) a perfectly quiet confidence in the awareness that our existence owes no debt to any condition, let to the passage of time in which it temporarily appears.

Topic: Realize Your Timeless Self and Reclaim the Gift of Perfect Peace (12/9/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 12/9/2020 - Never forget the truth that follows, and freedom is nearer than you think: no real spiritual effort is ever in vain, even when we're given to see -- as result of our inner work -- some low estate into which we've temporarily fallen. In turn, always remember: the great ocean into which the waters of a river...

Topics Covered: Because most people don't really understand the nature of time, they also don't know anything about timelessness; As a result of imagining wholeness in a time to come, we resist everything in life that seems to get in the way of that imagined wholeness; When we become identified with anything, we are at that point stalked and threatened by psychological time...

Student Talks: 10/30/2020 - Key Lesson: The strength of any painful resentment we feel toward others has nothing to do with any troubling character we may judge in them; rather (it is) born of an unseen weakness in us that believes others have the power to either give -- or take -- something from us that we need to be at peace with ourselves.

Topics Covered: No worldly pursuit can bring an end to the sense of being incomplete; We believe that unwanted moments should be avoided at all costs. It is a false belief because meeting unwanted moments reveals to us something that we brought into the moment that could not have exposed in any other way; A false belief is that we are only as valuable as others think we are...

Topics Covered: We are meant to use everything that happens to us to deepen our relationship with peace; I get disturbed whenever what 'I' know is not confirmed by the prevailing condition; Anxiety is a state that tries to find rest by racing through all of the possible paths to take in order to get through the moment; As above, so below. As within, so without; Our experience of any...

Student Talks: 9/4/2020 - Key Lesson: Part 1: There can be no silence, no real peace in our heart and mind without full acceptance of each moment... And there could be no such acceptance of the moment without accepting what the moment reveals to us -- about us -- in that same moment. Part 2: Self-acceptance is self-realization...