Shocks

What happens when we see things about ourselves that we don't want to see? In order to avoid looking at itself, the mind will seize on the anger, impatience, grief, loneliness, or anxiety it has seen... and it will try to explain it. It will take the initial darkness, the negative energy, and because it seems to be so bad, the mind will make something out of it that it can deal with...

Topics covered: Relationships are the ground for all lessons in life; Our partners aren't here to simply please us; Limitations are shown to us through our relationships; Relationships makes us either better people or more bitter people; Fights do nothing to heal pain; Real problems in fights are deeper than what the fight is about...

Topics covered:  "We would not be interested in true interior Work unless somehow, on a daily basis, we lived with an unrequited Love. The capacity to know this Love is already seeded within us; The consciousness that we call "Christ" is the light that dwells within the darkness that the darkness cannot comprehend. The Christ is a living awareness."

Topics covered: Shocks are mandatory in your inner spiritual work; There is an unconscious nature within us that only knows itself through what it is unconsciously identified with; The acronym in the doctor story was IROTNK stands for "Instant Reaction Of The Negative Kind"; There is no redemption in a time to come. In real life, redemption is always taking...

Topics covered: The original meaning of the word "profitable" pertains to the concept of "ascending." And the original meaning of the word "sin" pertains to "missing the mark"; There is not one moment of the day that you are not experiencing what something in you loves, both on the so-called positive side and the so-called negative side; Only love makes us an authentically profitable...

Topics Covered: We must be the ones to do the work so that the seed of self- knowledge can grow; There is an ancient prayer that goes, "From the unreal, lead us to the real. From darkness, lead us to the light. From death, lead us to immortality"; It is possible to change our relationship with our own consciousness. The change in consciousness must be an interior one...

Topics Covered: Allow the moment to act on you; Make the choice and be done with it; Only the witness can understand the consciousness that it is witnessing; Consciousness is not bound by time; A person who loves something is free of ambition; Addiction to achievement; Staying with the direct revelation; Change takes place in two directions at the same time; Do not try to escape yourself...

Topics covered:  The last thing that we want are recurring shocks. There is a part of us that does not want to be disturbed, a part of us that avoids disturbances at all costs; The negativity that we blame on the condition was there before the condition came along to stir the negativity to the surface; Something in us believes that we have a right to be negative because we would not be negative were it not for the condition or the person that is disturbing us.

Classroom Talk: 1/1/2020 - Here is the real "secret" of starting over: No moment in this life of ours can be any newer than we are willing to be at the outset of its appearance.