Self-Image

Topics covered: Images of ourselves exist instead of us, and they exist only in our mind; Actions that we take against ourselves are the response to unseen anxiety we felt the moment before; To create or to complete, that is the question; Aside from practical thought, the very nature of planning for a moment to come is the seed of fear; Our minds are seeded with constant dissatisfaction...

Classroom Talk: 9/4/2022 - The harsh, or otherwise cruel judgment of ourselves feels like it's part of what's necessary to perfect ourselves... when, in truth, it's actually a mechanical movement of an unconscious mind punishing itself for not being as it's imagined it's supposed to be.

Classroom Talk: 8/21/2022 - Part 1: To see all that I am... is to be all that I am; and when, at last, I am willing to see -- and to be all that I am -- there no longer remains any separate, isolated, lingering sense of self struggling to be, or not to be. Part 2: Wanting to master oneself -- without having obtained (true) knowledge of oneself -- is like hoping to harvest food...

Classroom Talk: 3/21/2021 - We have no greater Friend in life than that small part of us that loves what is True. The more we are able to recognize and honor the fact of this matter, the more powerfully does this interior Friend step forward... And prove to us the value of our love for it.

Classroom Talk: 6/4/2003 - Whether his fear is for the loss of some imagined estate, or for his longing to gain the respect of others, here is why no one can hope to ever possess that which he fears losing: As long as one's heart and mind is ruled over by any desire, such a person does not rule himself... And how can someone who doesn't even possess himself ever hope to own anything else?

Classroom Talk: 11/24/2002 - Here is what the sincere seeker of truth must see if he or she would ever be free: Just as we have the creative power to manifest our desires, to turn thought into matter, so does the reverse hold true in the unseen world within ourselves. Desire also holds the power to transform the self held by that desire into the form of its nature...and no desire can ever be free.

Classroom Talk: 11/10/2002 - Part 1: We must continually recommit ourselves to the life of Truth, even as the Living Light ceaselessly recommits itself to sustain our soul through the truth of Its own eternal Being. Part 2: When God's will becomes our sole wish in life then whatever happens to us not only fulfills our wish, but it is our wish from the start.

Classroom Talk: 8/21/2002 - Whatever is True, Right, and Real in any human being need no more seek approval for its own nature than does an eagle in full flight hope to hear the "caw-caw" of some crow below it, calling out to it about how confident it looks soaring alone through the wide, open sky!

Classroom Talk: 7/31/2002 - Part 1: When you can look a worry or anger in the eye and tell it, "There is nothing between us anymore," then you are well on your way to the birth of a new kind of freedom in you that nothing can oppose or ever take away from you! Part 2: Our problems, what amounts to our lives defined by these protracted burdens, become weightless the moment we cease to identify with them...

Classroom Talk: 7/24/2002 - The secret inlet into the realm of what is Timeless and Eternally True is our awareness of the present moment; for our awareness of Now is not an awareness of a given time, but is vested in that higher consciousness through which the things of time move in an out of creation.