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: 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...

Classroom Talk: 12/19/2021 - Part 1: Resisting what feels like an unwanted moment seems natural; but, refusing to accept it... is not. Part 2: There are some things in this life -- in the world of passing time, governed as it is by the illusion of opposites -- that cannot grow up side-by-side; for instance, by reason of their nature, the lion and the lamb never lay down together...

Classroom Talk: 12/18/2019 The painful pretense of human arrogance exists only as it does because of how distanced we've become from the immense, DIVINE mystery of our true Self. The more we AWAKEN to the depth of this mystery, the more we realize the effortless peace of a supernal humility.