Self-Deception

The purpose of a compass is not to tell you who or what you are; it's created to give you trusted guidance, so you don't lose your way. So it is with any revelation about yourself; its (Divine) light is to help you see all that you may yet be, and certainly not to judge you over what you are not.

We are not being called to be more than we are, let alone to judge ourselves when we see we have missed the mark; rather, we are here to discover ALL that we are being given, and how - if we dare accept this unimaginable gift - we will see it multiplied a hundredfold.

Classroom Talk: 8/16/2023 - One of the ways the unconscious, divided mind hides the pain inherent in its conflicted nature -- not to mention its inability to bring an end to its suffering -- is by repeatedly condemning itself for doing, repeatedly, the very thing it keeps telling itself it doesn't want to do again.

Classroom Talk: 7/14/2021 - Whoever lies... cries; and not just in that moment, but in every moment thereafter; as when, by fear, we feel compelled not just to defend some past self-compromising choice... but also because we continue to participate in an unconscious act that's not only set against our own best interests... but, ultimately, against the Good of all.

Classroom Talk: 6/30/2021 - Part 1: What is True always disturbs what is false. What is false never disturbs what is True. What is false is compelled to protect itself. What is True... is its own protection. Part 2: Who can possibly enlighten me as long as there's any fear of what I may see in the dark of myself?

Topic: Awaken the Strength You Need to Walk Away from Any Self-Compromising Behavior (5/3/20 Classroom Talk)

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...

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)

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.