Transformation / Transcending

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: 7/18/2003 - Work consciously to deliberately drop the names of your pains and you will also learn to let go of all the reasons you have for experiencing them.

Classroom Talk: 6/18/2003 - Once we awaken to see that each of our lives is an integral part of an Eternal Turning Point, and that nothing changes in the Great Life without changing everything within it, then we can let go of trying to change ourselves and simply take our natural place participating in the power of the Life Awakened.

Classroom Talk: 5/25/2003 - Just as the yellow-red and fire-like orange colors of a sunset fill an emblazoned sky without staining it, so does the endless spectrum of thought play across the mind that is one with its own light without leaving a mark.

Classroom Talk: 5/7/2003 - When we are awakened at night from a nightmare, we realize with a start that we had been sleeping; but when a dark state overcomes us in the daylight hours, we believe we are awake, never suspecting that our bad dream unfolds as it does because we remain asleep within ourselves.

Classroom Talk: 1/24/2003 - Every conscious act of Love lifts the world, so that each genuine expression of kindness embraces and elevates all willing souls. While every angry thought lashes the soul, infecting the world with its bitterness until the will of what is dark within that hatefulness crushes the unwitting soul, causing her to lose her precious little Light.

Classroom Talk: 12/29/2002 - One cannot have a true wish for the love of God without it being God's Love making that wish (within him), any more than one could wait in hopeful anticipation of a sunrise who had never before stood in the warming rays of dawn's early light.

Classroom Talk: 11/27/2002 - Any time that we identify with some negative emotion, or otherwise self-compromising thought, we not only embrace what betrays and constrains us, but lend our will to what holds us captive. In this way we actually transform ourselves into becoming prisoners of our own unconscious act.

Classroom Talk: 11/22/2002 - The fear we feel that we can't succeed with starting life all over again is because our old nature wants us to believe that the path to a New Self requires we retrace our steps and fight our way back to an unsoiled starting place in life. But here's the truth: There is no pathway, past or future, that leads to Real Self-Newness. The secret place of all fresh starts in life unfolds right from where we are in each moment...

Classroom Talk: 10/27/2002 - We know the disturbance of desire, as in the pain of when we don't want what life brings. But what we are not conscious of is the disturbance in the pleasure of wanting what we don't have! When we see that the disturbance of pain and the disturbance of pleasure have the same root and only seemingly different fruits, then our nature will begin its transformation.

Classroom Talk: 8/16/2002 - It is never the unwanted condition itself that has us stuck, but that we are unknowingly hung up in habitual thoughts and feelings about our situation. To be New we must learn to see ourselves from that part of us that knows who we really are, our True Nature, was not created to be a captive of anything!

Classroom Talk: 7/24/2002 - The secret inlet into the realm of what is Timeless and Eternally True is our awareness of the present moment; for our awareness of Now is not an awareness of a given time, but is vested in that higher consciousness through which the things of time move in an out of creation.