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Classroom Talk: 2/9/2020 - Part 1: Seek first the Truth of yourself: there cannot be two firsts in our life, otherwise the first of today...becomes the last of tomorrow and, ultimately, what is lost is our opportunity to enter into a conscious relationship with what is timelessly wise, and perfectly loving. Part 2: Growing pains are inescapable for all those...
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Question: Thanks to your teachings, I have new understanding of how each experience reveals to me what I am in relationship with, and for the first time ever I see that I have the choice of knowing I am not thoughts of resistance, and that I don't have to follow any pull of false promises in challenging moments. I have seen a Presence that guides me, that allows an inner space in which to watch it all unfolding. This Grace has taught me that I am...
The meditative life is not limited to sitting down someplace quietly, nor is it limited to someplace in time where we can control conditions so that we can experience something of a quiet mind. It can be said that meditation is the active relationship that an individual has with the whole of his or her life. Indeed, if we were able to see clearly enough into our own life, we would see some...
If we're not getting what we want out of life, it's only because of one simple misunderstanding: Our unique purpose is not to succeed at any one thing, but to discover and live from a nature that is success itself. When we understand this, the world opens its doors to us. We're not meant to struggle to make events go the way our minds tell us they should. That's what leads to frustration...
Each life lesson gained, each timeless truth gleaned by agreeing to go through what we would rather not, confirms a great secret unknown by the masses: the whole universe had to have participated in that moment of our transformation, otherwise none of the necessary elements could have been in the right place at the right time to deliver that perfectly tailored lesson. Here, we find personal ev...
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Topics covered: Without knowing it, something in us sets out each day with the secret intention of remaining the same as it was the day before; We say that we want peace and freedom, or a relationship with the Divine, but psychologically speaking, we spend our time defending old beliefs so that what is old and familiar remains in place; You can't transcend the nature that wants to remain as it is unless you first SEE it.
Topics covered: "Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done." -- New Testament; For us evolution is imagination of the direction we need to take in order to finally be at peace. But you cannot evolve yourself. You cannot evolve into new understanding by yourself; Every true instance of evolution involves a relationship with that which asks you to give up who and what you have been.
Topics covered: The very effort to escape from a dream is itself a dream; We live in a world the size of our understanding. Understanding is a momentary relationship with the consciousness within which that understanding already lives; It is the nature of the seer -- the one who looks out at the world -- that is the source of unnecessary suffering; Wisdom comes out of the expiration of knowledge. Self-knowledge is not static... it is wisdom.