Opposites

Classroom Talk: 11/17/2024 - Real self-change begins with seeing that Real Life is change itself.

Classroom Talk: 9/29/2024 - In this life – regardless of circumstance – there is no greater reward than our God-given right to see what is true, and then to do what is asked of us in the light of that revelation; neither is there any task that comes with so great a personal price.

Classroom Talk: 8/25/2024 - We are so occupied trying to fill our lives with what we want that we can't see how all that we need is being given to us freely every moment of the day.

Classroom Talk: 3/3/2024 - Once we understand that all forces -- even the seemingly contradictory ones -- are secretly complementary, we stand on the threshold of not only discovering the lost secret of letting go and letting God... but, at the same time, find that we are well on our way to realizing the unconditional holiness of life.

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: 4/16/2023 - Never run from any moment you don't understand, as whatever your conflict may be in that moment with life... (it) will be waiting for you when, and wherever you come to a stop.

Classroom Talk: 1/29/2023 - The more we work to attend to the need of each new moment, the more the conflict of yesterday -- along with its closest friend, called the "fear of tomorrow" -- seems to be miraculously resolved, and then just quietly disappear!

Classroom Talk: 10/17/2021 - Part 1: So great is the need of the false self to feel "important" that it never stops imagining what it must have to feel that way; so that, by default, it lives in an almost constant fear of any moment it sees as a threat its desired sense of self. And, as incredible as it seems, it uses this ensuing state of self-created tension as proof that the crowning...

Classroom Talk: 1/22/2020 - If our contentment - our joy in life - doesn't start somewhere deep and untouchable within us, as does the beauty of a rose begin before it flowers, then our happiness is "in and of this world": (it is) a creation of passing time that will - as must all things that live in time - wilt and wither away.

You're not comfortable with your suffering; We're locked into a mind of the opposites; My senses receive what is put into me; Psychologically I am a "want" machine; The pain you're in is the road to your perfection; Life keeps bringing you right back to the same place; You came here because you wanted an answer to your pain; Anticipation is always memory...

Classroom Talk: 3/27/2019 - Untouched, uncorrupted by what once was, and yet unfolding from it -- as does a new blossom from its bud -- comes forth the ever-present moment. But (such) newness holds no familiar pleasure for a mind locked in time: where its struggle to be free unfolds in self-spun captivity, an unwitting but...

Classroom Talk: 3/20/2019 - What is this uncompromising, and yet constantly compromised “force” at work in us, that we call... "free will”? Here's the truth that – once seen – acts to set us free: what we call our will is the conditioned residue of experience past as it imposes itself on the revelation of each moment in order to create – and sustain – an...