Self-Knowledge

Remastered Classic Talk: 2/15/17 - 

Part 1: Behind every expectation that we have for how we should be treated by others lurks the inevitable sense of feeling betrayed by them any time they fail to hit their assigned mark. Behind this disappointment in their character or demeanor -- in fact, its partner in this kind of discrimination -- dwells an unseen sense of righteousness based on a false assumption that we are nothing like what we are so easily moved to judge.

Part 2: It's always the right time to discover something new and true about our present level of being, even if, in that same moment, what we uncover seems altogether wrong.

Remastered Classic Talk: 1/25/17 - Being "clever," or "strong" enough to escape unwanted moments is not the same as escaping the fearful nature within us that creates them. Freedom, real freedom, is not being able to successfully avoid the things we fear; rather, it is the moment-to-moment realization of a relationship with the whole of Life... wherein we can see that who we are, our True Self, has nothing to fear in this world, or in any other.

Remastered Classic Talk: 12/14/16 - Speculation, speculation: thy true name is doubt, and thy brother is fear.

Remastered Classic Talk: 06/08/16 - The repetition of patterns, even painful ones, is a form of safety to a mind that prefers to remain asleep to itself... because in the continuation of the known it finds a fitful kind of rest, even as it talks to itself about how much it hates being stuck in a rut!

Classroom Talk: 8/28/2024 - When all is said and done, perfect order and true self-knowledge are inseparable; each reflecting the other in much the same way as is the beauty of a dark-red rose revealed through the eyes of its lover.

Classroom Talk: 5/8/2024 - Here's why no rest can be found in the thought (of any time to come) regardless how temporarily comforting it may seem: there is no end to the thinker's desire to resolve the angst inherent in its own conflicted thinking...an endless search for a solution to its own unseen, self-induced suffering.

Classroom Talk: 3/13/2024 - It's always the right time to discover something new and true about our own nature, even if, in that moment, it feels as if what we've uncovered seems altogether wrong.

Classroom Talk: 6/29/2022 - The unimaginable reward of discovering the truth about any troubling condition we meet along the path to self-liberation is as follows: not only are we created to outgrow any painful reaction to these unwanted moments, but we are free to do so anytime we choose!