Self-Deception

Classroom Talk: 11/30/2025 - If you find yourself harboring resentment -- filled with angry thoughts or painful regrets -- having surrendered to the suffering induced by your own negative considerations... be warned: in the darkness of that nature is where affliction hides; it abides there, breeding the conflict it has with the natural tides of life, waiting to consume those who consent to enter the hell wherein it dwells.

Classroom Talk: 12/15/2024 - Being in conscious relationship with what is Holy in life is only as possible as we are willing to see, and to be, accordingly, the whole of who and what we are in each moment.

Topics covered: Thought dilutes the necessary experience of yourself; There is no development without an inner struggle in which a person will get banged up; What we get sucked into is the sensation of 'I' that fights with life; Some examples of false flags (something that seems to be on your side but is actually a deception and not for your best interests) include blame, plans, ideologies, lovely feelings, believing in people, believing in anything...

Classroom Talk: 12/5/2021 - Part 1: The search for your true timeless Self begins and ends with being true to yourself; no other path exists; no power is required to walk it. Part 2: The reason the true path to self-realization is referred to as being nameless is because unless the one who walks has no name... then it is not the true path.

Classroom Talk: 7/31/2019 The futility of ambition hides behind the pain of false pride... save for those inevitable, inescapable moments of seeing how we have labored for a "treasure chest" to come that was empty, barren in the same moment of its imagined conception.

Classroom Talk: 5/1/2019 It may feel as if it's true, but familiarity is not safety... Any more than we might believe that some unfortunate creature -- protected by the cage in which it is confined -- finds comfort in its captivity.

Classroom Talk: 4/24/2019 The more we resist -- and suffer over -- any moment that proves we don't possess the strength we imagine ourselves as having -- the further removed we are from recognizing the real healing lesson these moments bring with them: the realization that the source of this suffering -- over our alleged "weakness"...