Self-Deception

Classroom Talk: 5/3/2020 - No part of our present level of consciousness can be fully transcended without having completely experienced its nature; and this includes temptation, whatever its character. The "saint" is not someone who has never been tempted, but rather the one who -- having come to know its nature so fully...

Student Talks: 4/17/2020 - Key Lesson: Conscious persistence perfects those who will suffer through the work it takes to discover that discouragement is a lie. Only then is its deception seen for what it is: a lower level of consciousness that wants us to accept its mediocrity as the only possibility.

Student Talks: 4/3/2020 - Key Lesson: Looking to, let alone allowing any negative thought or feeling to guide you through a dark unwanted moment is like asking the captain of the Titanic to chart a safe course for you through a sea full of icebergs!

Student Talks: 9/13/2019 - Key Lesson: We learn to "pan" the gold out of unwanted moments by seeing that identifying with any form of troubled, or otherwise fearful thought that has appeared to protect us is, in fact, fool's gold.

Topic: Start Seeing Through "The Devil's" Favorite Deception (5/26/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Start Seeing Through "The Devil's" Favorite Deception (5/26/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Start Seeing Through "The Devil's" Favorite Deception (5/26/19 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 5/26/2019 - Hoping to understand the real cause behind some painful, or otherwise unwanted moment by talking to yourself about it -- after it takes place -- is like arriving at the airport hours after your plane's departed, and believing that revisiting the reasons why you missed the flight is almost the same as having caught it.

Classroom Talk: 3/17/2019 - What most of us take for mostly innocent “social conversation”... is far from that; we’d be better off seeing these dialogues – including what drives them – for what they are in reality: a “cover-up,” where the real reason behind any compulsive chattering – with others, or in “talking things over” with ourselves –...

Topic: Free Yourself from the Ache of All Unconscious "Fake News" (2/10/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Free Yourself from the Ache of All Unconscious "Fake News" (2/10/19 Classroom Talk)