Selfishness / Self-Love

Topic: Start Seeing and Being Part of a New Creation (Remastered Classic Talk)(Classroom Talk 5/21/25)

Topics covered:  If you don't participate in life, there is no reason to be here; For you presently, so-called "positive" is figuring out how you can escape from the "negative"; You sink into the very negative state that you are trying to reconcile in thought.

Topic: Learn to Give Yourself to Life by Letting Life Give You Life (Remastered Classic Talk)(Classroom Talk 4/23/25)

Topic: The First Step to Realizing True Self-Command (Remastered Classic Talk)(Classroom Talk 4/9/25)

Topics covered:  The true interior path is about ceaseless exploration, not about coming to conclusions. We get stressed every time we come to a conclusion. Exploration stops when we come to a conclusion; The advanced spiritual life is already here in every moment, not in what you imagine the spiritual life is supposed to be; Nothing can grow without humility, because for anything to grow it must be in a position of receiving, yielding to what is above. No humility, no transformation.

Student Talks: 10/20/2023 - Key Lesson: When the truth is seen... Words, ideas, ambitions, even lofty aspirations are recognized as blindfolds. Why wait to see?

Topics covered: There are parts of us that do not want anything to do with the truth of things; Why is it that human beings have not known what to do with their suffering for all this time? Human beings are the captive of a suffering that they do not understand; Regardless of how conditions have changed as a result of our ability to change them with technology, etc., we are all still absolute captives of the suffering we don't understand...

Student Talks: 9/1/2023 - Key Lesson: No one is obligated to "love thy neighbor as thyself," let alone to seek and find one's place in the Great Circle of Life; yet, "it is written" in the stars themselves: all must eventually pay for what they have done against themselves, or others. For Justice through balance is Divine Law, enforced by its tireless, unfailing love...

Topics covered: The only times that you get upset in your life is when your psychological routine is disrupted; The acronym "ERAMS" from the doctor story stands for "Everything Revolves Around Me Syndrome"; Our addictions, whether physical or psychological, begin with the thought that the addictive routine will release us from the feeling of being unbalanced. Identification with the object of the addiction...

Student Talks: 7/16/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Whatever we seek in this world to confirm our sense of self, the same serves to corrupt us. Should you doubt this, just become aware of your compulsive need to constantly be assured that whatever "kingdom" you've created for yourself... is still there. Part 2: Blessed are those who love, for they shall be loved; but for those who love not -- but only imagine they do -- even what little they have shall be taken... and they shall neither know love, nor be loved.

Topics Covered: In the same way we derive an identity from our possessions, we derive an identity about the qualities and characteristics we imagine about ourselves. That mind becomes dependent upon its own images; Everything requires contrast in order to understand the consciousness that created it, and to ultimately transcend it into a love that doesn't compromise itself...

Topic: How to Reclaim the Immeasurable Treasure of Your True Self (3/10/21 Classroom Talk)