Selfishness / Self-Love

All of us know what it's like to be dogged by parts of us that want to drag us down. Call it what you will: some compulsion or obsession seems to follow us into all our relationships, only to wreck them in one way or another. We struggle as best we can to free ourselves from these dark states but invariably find ourselves short of the mark.

Imagine for a moment you're driving home from work, or wherever, and that you've just come from having a pretty rough day. As you drive along, your eyes see the road before you, but your mind is in the past. It's very busy re-running all of the day's unpleasant events.

Every human being is different and unique. It's one of the greatest mysteries that there is no end to the ways in which the Divine manifests itself through its creations. Every last element of each creation expresses a different character and quality of the Divine as it is acted upon by the Divine.

Classroom Talk: 10/15/2023 - When the truth is seen, Words, ideas, ambitions, Even lofty aspirations, Are recognized as blindfolds. Why wait to see?

Classroom Talk: 8/27/2023 - 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... whose final consolation is a pure heart no longer...

Classroom Talk: 7/11/2021 - 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: Real love isn't selfish; Our minds are undeveloped; We start every moment from an assumption of strength; Everything you can see going on within you is beneath the self that can see; Who and what you really are is out of the ordinary, but we live from an ordinary self; You're so anxious because you're always trying to prove yourself; Nothing in you needs to be protected....