Sense Of Self

Classroom Talk: 06/14/2026 - The sleeping mind is a ghost. It doesn’t want to see how much it loves the haunted house it claims it can’t stand living in, but yet won’t leave.

Classroom Talk: 04/19/2026 - Whatever it may be within us that fears death…is itself the thing that must die.

Classroom Talk: 10/05/2025 - If we know it’s impossible to put out a fire by feeding it more wood, how do we fail to see the futility of trying to quiet a mind already burning with thoughts…by adding still more thinking?

Remastered Classic Talk: 07/10/2016 - Rushing somewhere, through anything, in the hope of finding some imagined peace of mind is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!

Classroom Talk: 04/13/2025 - Awakening is the (graduated) process of negating all forms of identification; (it is) the realization that no matter how real the feel of any familiar sense of self - for its pleasure, or pain – nevertheless: no sensation does a “self” make, any more than a wave on the sea makes the sea from out of which it rises, and must return.

Classroom Talk: 10/6/2024 - Here's the truth that helps sets you free, but only as you agree to see its Divine Law at work within you: Real Life never asks for one thing more than what it's already given to you - in that very same moment - to make Good its request.

Classroom Talk: 7/7/2024 - Believing that avoiding the experience of an unwanted, or otherwise unknown moment is the same as freedom from the fear of it is like being lost in the African bush, crossing paths with a hungry lion, and hoping that if you just look the other way... it will too!

Classroom Talk: 6/30/2024 - Just as a prism takes in sunlight to reveal its hidden array of colors, so do impressions pass into and through (our) awareness, revealing therein an infinite number of unexpected characters, and their qualities... in that same moment.

Classroom Talk: 1/14/2024 - The greatest possibility for acquiring the Divine energy required to facilitate the transformation of oneself is found only in the moments of higher awareness that, itself, can only be realized in the same time and place of one's greatest resistance to that moment.

Classroom Talk: 12/15/2023 - To everything there is a season, and life's great cycles of expansion and contraction -- of yes and no -- serve no individual save the one who has uncovered the secret of being in the world, but not of it.

Classroom Talk: 9/3/2023 - Creating, and then identifying with its own negative reactions is one of the ways the "false self" works to hide the truth of its essential nothingness... from itself.

Classroom Talk: 9/6/2020 - Whenever we are taken over by a negative state -- and remain identified with our resistance to it -- we may not know it, but in these moments... we are as good as "dead." Yes, it feels like we're alive, but this powerful sense of self is really just the presence of our (own) painful resistance to what that moment came to reveal...