Classroom Talk: 12/1/2019 - It’s never Life’s lessons (themselves) that are painful: here’s the real reason why we continue to experience the fear, anger, or anxiety that always seems to attend the appearance of unwanted moments: an unconscious part of us keeps resisting the (spiritual) lessons that are inseparable from the...

When attention is directed, it has the ability to invest an idea with energy and life. Wherever you place your attention, you give life to that seed of thought. We've all experienced how the power of attention almost seems to have a magnetic pull. This power can be used for good or bad. When we use it for practical work, or for honest self-observation, we use it to our own benefit. However, w...

Unattended thoughts attract unwanted relationships...

Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.

We can either spend our life resisting painful, unwanted moments - wishing they go away - or we can learn to look outside of them, which is the only way to discover the Truth that sets us free: within any dark moment dwells a Living Light that increases (itself) with every step we dare take into it.

We are not intended to divert or resist anything that appears in our consciousness, including negative states. What we want is to see whatever appears -- to let it be revealed -- so that we can understand our proper relationship with it, instead of falsely identifying with everything that passes by. This leads to an ever-closer relationship with the Divine, even as...

Discussion of Guy's book, "The Essential Laws of Fearless Living." Topics explored in this dialogue: No psychological fear exists without negative imagination; Fear is a mechanical process which chooses certain images and then resists the images it produced; Fear is faster than the speed of thought; We are victims of unconscious, continuing suffering; Nothing is healed that isn't revealed; Bel...

Classroom Talk: 9/6/2023 - To resist, and then avoid the unwanted appearance of any limitation in our life is the failure that we fear in that same moment. There is no other failure than to live in fear, and it exists only in the (self-inflicted) isolation of unconsciously identifying with any form of negative imagination.

Student Talks: 9/16/2022 - Key Lesson: Being convinced to worry over some darkness that "might be" just around the corner is an unseen interior shell game; (it's) a "play and lose" operation run by parts of us that know if they can't keep us resisting some impending fear they will have no choice but to disappear!

Classroom Talk: 2/2/2022 - Any part of us that wants to give us a good reason why we are stuck somewhere in life is secretly a partner in that pain it first protests, and then seems to resist. To see the truth of this insight sets the stage for how to never feel stuck again.

Part I: Seen properly, what is any dark mental or emotional habit -- such as regretting our life, cultivating resentments, or fearfully trying to protect ourselves from what "may be" -- other than the unconscious practice of perfecting what punishes us? Part II: Resisting any negative state merely helps it realize its full potential to make you its prisoner!...

Topics covered: Why do we have a need for success; How to completely change your relationship with life; Lessons ride in on the back of events; The mind resists its own conclusions; Stop agreeing to feel incomplete; Higher awareness will never compromise itself; Truth is simple; Don't waste your energy; Thoughts gather mass; What is intelligent action.