When we talk about making changes in ourselves, it could be said that it's like climbing a mountain. Why is the mountain a metaphor for spiritual change? There's a certain kind of effort necessary for climbing, isn't there? Also, the mountain represents a higher view. Because as you ascend the mountain, not only does the atmosphere change in terms of becoming more rarified, but every step higher up the mountain produces...
The Divine journey involves the preparation of an individual by another, higher order of awareness (that already lies hidden within us), so that we're able to see that the ceaseless, seemingly individual waves of the passing events of our lives belong to a much broader, grander relationship. And they exist for the purpose of our development, and not to torment us with what we fear is going to be...
In this life, we have one of two choices when it comes to painful events, past or present. We can either go on hating and fearing what we think life has done to us (or others), and let these negative reactions create our experience for us... or we can learn to use these same dark reactions to free ourselves from them. But just wanting to learn the truth isn't enough...
Topic: The First Step in Saving Yourself from the Most Painful Illusion on Earth (Classroom Talk 3/13/24)
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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.
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Topic: New Self-Knowledge to Help You Outgrow Any Negative Reaction (Classroom Talk 6/29/22)
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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!
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Topic: The Real Reason Why It's So Hard to Start Life Over! (Classroom Talk 5/11/22)
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Classroom Talk: 5/11/2022 - The only thing 1,000 failed attempts to start life over proves is that we're setting out from the same old place... mistaking it for the only place there is for us to make a new beginning. This is why we must have true self-knowledge because the journey to a new life begins within us or... not at all.
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Topic: Start Looking in the Right Direction for Self-Liberation (Classroom Talk 4/13/22)
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Classroom Talk: 4/13/2022 - You are the answer to the question you ask. To have this true self-knowledge -- born of higher self-understanding -- leads to a life without fear, a faith that grows daily, and the patience it requires to perfect your relationship with the Divine.
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Classroom Talk: 12/22/2021 - Part 1: No matter what direction you may find yourself turned in at the outset of any given moment, just be sure that before you start walking nothing negative guides your footsteps... or you will never find your way back Home. Part 2: One of the greatest enigmas every true aspirant must meet -- and eventually transcend -- in their search for self-realization, is the following
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