Pride

Remastered Classic Talk: 3/01/17 - 

Part 1: The purer the reflection, the more immaculate its conception.

Part 2: We are not lifted by our emotions... rather, we are chained to them; we go where they take us. As long as our identity is a derivative of any temporary passion, our sense of self is a by-product of the same... much in the same way as a spark owes its existence to the flame that gives it birth. When the fire dies, so does its heat.

Remastered Classic Talk: 2/22/17 - There is likely nothing more painfully mistaken -- no greater impediment to the realization of our freedom than the feeling that we are somehow entitled to it; we are entitled to nothing, and yet -- even in this world of spellbound souls who can only dream of being free -- we may have anything for which we're willing to make the appropriate payment.

Remastered Classic Talk: 06/22/16 - If someone can say something to you about yourself that causes you to crash and burn -- so that you never stop smoldering over what they have said -- it's only because you have yet to see the truth of yourself. Here's the fact that not only proves the above, but within it rests the only real solution to this kind of suffering: Any truth you realize about yourself cancels both the fear of that truth as well as the level of self that lives in fear of it.

Topics Covered: Even though it may sound like a paradox, the quality of obedience is intimately connected to perfect self-command; Real command is not about controlling your own reactions, let alone controlling other people. Anything that you feel you must have control over is in control of you; In order to fulfill its purpose in existence, a seed must die so that it may give birth to another order of itself.

Topics Covered: Self-acceptance is self-realization. The rejection of a moment is the same as resisting a moment of revelation; There is intended to be a release in each moment... if we are willing to accept the revelation in it; Conditions do not create conflict. The conflict is already there before the condition, and before we even know it. We come into the moment holding onto...

Topics Covered: What difference does it make what others think of you?; A coward dies a thousand deaths; Do what is in your power and refuse to do what is not; Outgrowing beliefs involves exposing the consciousness that holds it; We are made aware of the sleeping consciousness when it resists; Awareness is the beginning of enlightenment, and enlightenment...

Topic: Everything You Need to Know to Change the World You See (6/30/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Everything You Need to Know to Change the World You See (6/30/19 Classroom Talk)