Resistance

Student Talks: 10/4/2024 - Key Lesson: In this life – regardless of circumstance – there is no greater reward than our God-given right to see what is true, and then to do what is asked of us in the light of that revelation; neither is there any task that comes with so great a personal price.

Topics covered:  "Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done." -- New Testament; For us evolution is imagination of the direction we need to take in order to finally be at peace. But you cannot evolve yourself. You cannot evolve into new understanding by yourself; Every true instance of evolution involves a relationship with that which asks you to give up who and what you have been.

Student Talks: 9/6/2024 - Key Lesson: As surely as planting a lemon seed will grow a tree full of lemons, so is the following true: any solution that begins with resisting (the pain of) some unwanted experience will not only prove itself fruitless, but always give birth to more of the same!

Student Talks: 8/9/2024 - Key Lesson: Every shocking revelation we are given to see, and to realize (if we will) as true about our present nature is -- at its heart -- an unseen act of mercy; it is the herald of an order of higher understanding unimaginable to the human mind.

Classroom Talk: 8/7/2024 - No one can be "ready" for a real moment of self-transformation; but we can be awakened, and made aware of its immanent possibility...and then agree, or not, to cooperate with that process.

Topics covered: The only thing we know to do in unwanted moments is to reject them, and then listen for guidance from the part of us that responds in that way; In a disturbing moment, the resistance that comes up -- the onset of it -- is not yours; How many times are you going to struggle with fear, anxiety, depression, anger, and every other negative state?

Topics covered: Struggling to get what you want always sets you against other human beings; "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers." -- New Testament; Not wanting a condition is the same as struggling to control the condition you don't want; Some moments are as painful as they are because you have an idea that they should not be that way. The real source of conflict is your ideas of what you want...

Topics covered: The harder you work, the more profitable you become. And to be "profitable" means "to ascend."; Who do you work for? To know who it is that you work for, look at what you attend to all day long; You cannot separate the idea of "your" achievements from "your" fears; For us presently, resistance is an entirely personal force. And we get used by the resistance because we meet the resistance from the exact same part of us that...

Topics covered: When captured by a negative state, we cannot see ourselves as we are. In those moments, we can only see through the negative state's eyes; There is something present in any moment of revelation, something that is always there, that is more than who you have been; The source of your pain can never deliver you to the end of that pain in the way that it promises; Most people spend their entire lives looking anxiously around the...

Classroom Talk: 6/19/2024 - To realize that I AM -- and always have been what I was scarcely aware of in days gone by -- is the first faint, but deep stirring of the Truth that set you free.

Topic: The Wisdom You Need to Stop Struggling with Unwanted Moments Once and for All! (Classroom Talk 11/29/23)