Sense Of Self

Topics covered: The illusion of a separate self; There is a communication between levels of ourselves that we're not aware of; We're conditioned to believe in the power of choice; The first choice is to see the nature of the chooser; The more awakened you become the less choices you make; Fear is a lie because there's no one there who is apart from life to fear it...

Classroom Talk: 7/16/2004 - Seeking the approval of others -- in the hope of measuring the worth of ourselves -- makes as much sense as looking for our reflection in a falling drop of rain, with the main difference being this: A raindrop actually lasts longer than does that fleeting sense of self we win for having sold our soul for another empty smile.

Classroom Talk: 9/28/2003 - What doesn't go the right way for the one who understands that, once awakened to Real Life, nothing can go the wrong way?

Classroom Talk: 9/5/2003 - No animal hides in shame for being itself. No tree bends to the opinion of others. No wind avoids the granite face before it. Only human beings cultivate ways in which to fawn or cower before one another, and all for the sake of winning nothing but a fleeting feeling that for their cunning they have made it through one more day.

Classroom Talk: 8/13/2003 - The most difficult thing in the world is to be one person.

Classroom Talk: 8/6/2003 - Part 1: In direct proportion to the strength of our remembrance of His Life does God grant us His strength. Part 2: Look at what a man labors at and you will know what he loves. Look at what a man loves and you will know whom he serves. Look at what a man serves and you know his master. Look at a man's master and you know his destiny.

Classroom Talk: 6/1/2003 - If we were half as concerned with what we "chew" over in our mind as we are about the kind of foods that we put into our mouth, not only would our soul be better nourished, but our bodies would be healthier too!

Classroom Talk: 4/2/2003 - We cannot stop life from happening, but never recognize this fact, because each time we try (to stop it) all we manage to do is succeed in starting up the machinery of our own misery, and then we mistake this aching for the proof of our power.