Classroom Talk: 1/27/2019 - Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of February 4, 2019. Ignoring what any unwanted moment asks of us -- resisting, or summarily dismissing the "question" inherent in our awareness of its disturbance -- guarantees the following: these moments will return, and keep returning...

Only what is 'guilty' resists or otherwise fears having its character accused of some shortcoming, and actively denies whatever it feels has judged it unjustly; but what is innocent cannot feel condemned. It fears no judgment anymore than a sunrise fears the grip of the darkness it has come to release.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of April 10, 2018. Part 1: There is but one relationship one can have with the wind-blown events of this world that isn't a part of all the useless, unconscious suffering they create... and that is to be a conscious witness of them.

After doing much practice of the new awareness you suggest, I have found that it's me who is first thinking painful thoughts and then resisting them (or feeling embarrassed over them). Yet, sometimes these images (mostly from my past) come automatically and I find myself bound to look at them, consider them, even when they're painful! It's here I am confused; am I intentionally creating these...

Classroom Talk: 6/20/2003 - In the long run, our attitude towards life's lessons -- and the direction our life takes in life -- are one and the same; show me someone who resists the Light of Life's correction in the course of his or her soul, and I will show you someone whose destiny is the darkness of total self-enclosure.

Topics covered: The Light is already a part of who you are; Negative states are undeveloped states of consciousness; We are a reflection of what is eternal, divine and immortal; Relationships reveal the purpose of existence; The authentic spiritual life includes conscious suffering; Resisting unwanted moments cements the condition we don't want; Who you mistook yourself to be was never you; Re...

Classroom Talk: 8/14/2019 Living within us... is a lower level of consciousness. This "in-the-dark" nature does not want to know itself, and resists any form of light that reveals its highly conflicted character. Fortunately -- by grace -- within us also dwells a Living Light whose awareness not only reveals the dark realm of this unconscious "self"...

The better we understand the unique power of being "passive"- and how it serves as the secret consort of all things active - the more we grow in the faith we need to be wisely passive toward whatever fears remain in us about letting go of our false self. This is why we should take time each day -- as often as possible -- to quietly return to the living Light that dwells in the...

We have yet to see the following truth, let alone realize the immensity of its implication: Whenever we identify with any negative reaction...

Classroom Talk: 10/21/2018 - Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 29, 2018. Part 1: It may be said one finds freedom from suffering over oneself in direct proportion to one's realization that there is no separate self whose suffering is to be resisted. Part 2: All unconscious suffering is... consensual.

The reason we resist virtually all endings in our life--wherein we feel as though something has been wrongfully taken away from us--is because these same unwanted moments leave us feeling terribly empty inside ourselves. In truth, it is this overwhelming sense of emptiness that we detest, and not the changing condition itself that we so habitually protest. So when things..."

Here’s why the negative sense of self is blind: it doesn’t want to see the smallest thing that challenges whatever it’s become identified with; and yet (it is) unable to look at anything else...