No one really wants to talk about it, but the truth is, there is a kind of "evil spell" hanging over each of us and our world as well. In fact, part of this global spell is our denial of its existence. It is called suffering. Everyone does it -- and, like hypnotized captives, everyone believes that their suffering somehow benefits them. That's how the spell works. Why else would anyone punish...
We don't know that we walk around with our mind literally looking at the world around us through our eyes full of darkness. And the darkness that our eyes are full of is imagination and the self that it generates. Unattended imagination relies on what it imagines in order to bring into existence a simultaneously imagined self. It is the most dangerous force in the world, because anything that...
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Classroom Talk: 3/2/2022 - Peace is not the opposite of conflict; it is the absence of it.
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Classroom Talk: 5/3/2020 - No part of our present level of consciousness can be fully transcended without having completely experienced its nature; and this includes temptation, whatever its character. The "saint" is not someone who has never been tempted, but rather the one who -- having come to know its nature so fully...
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Classroom Talk: 4/26/2020 - Reclaiming rightful authority over our own mind and heart begins with seeing, very clearly, that the ease with which we make excuses for self-compromising choices is not the same as being in charge of ourselves.
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Classroom Talk: 2/2/2020 - Part 1: We can either complain about our life, or work to change it. Each moment unfolds in the company of two invisible "buttons:" One is marked, "going down." The other reads, "Up!" Our destiny depends upon which of these two buttons we select. Choose wisely! Part 2: The only thing gained by how easy...
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Classroom Talk: 9/15/2019 - Each moment is pregnant with infinite new possibilities that can only be realized and conceived in the "womb" of a higher consciousness that waits -- in perfect stillness -- to be both the instrument, and the witness of that new birth.
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Classroom Talk: 7/21/2019 - Part 1: Many are those who love, but only because they are loved, and so their love is not true. But those who love, in spite of being spurned... their love alone is true. Part 2: Don't do what hurts another, but not for the sake of being someone who doesn't do what he believes his "goodness" forbids...
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Classroom Talk: 7/7/2019 - It is impossible to know the secret holiness of any moment, to realize its divine purpose -- let alone accept your role and responsibility in its appearance -– and resist what the light of that moment has come to reveal to you, about yourself, at the same time.
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Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 26, 2018. Part 1: Never fear the loss of what will, and must disappear in this world of passing time. The work of remembering this timeless, (but unwanted) truth is the same as connecting yourself to the love of an all-embracing, fearless awareness... that never dies.
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