Remastered Classic Talk: 8/17/16 - Part 1: You can neither control, nor change any anxious thought or emotion that rushes in and sweeps you off of your feet because this "I" -- this sense of yourself suddenly in a struggle to escape a psychological storm -- is itself a part of the squall it now so vigorously resists.

Part 2: Every thought, a blockage. Every emotion, a limitation. Every movement, a hindrance to Thee.

Topics covered: Each negative state that we currently act from comes with an incredibly strong sense of self whenever that weakness appears. The real root of the weakness is the identification with the state; We draw a strong sense of self from the very weakness that we say we wish to be from from. There is an addiction to resisting the weakness; There is nothing real that happens when we revisit the past...

Topics covered: Why we run into walls over and over; Starting over is not in time; We need a change in consciousness; Starting over begins with recognizing parts of yourself that demand things go the way you want them to; The wall is that level of consciousness that makes demands of life; There is a repeating nature that resists the moment; A new plan is not starting over; Our sense of self is...

When the student is ready, the teacher appears; The purpose of each moment is liberation; Turning your cheek not 7 times, but 70 times; We can't resist something and learn from it at the same time; Five words to end conflict: "Let me get this one!"; Awareness has no judgement in it; Love flourishes because sacrifice leads the way; There is no such thing as a bad fact about yourself; Five quick...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of May 4, 2015. That we blame anyone or anything for our suffering reveals our blatant refusal to accept responsibility for our present level of consciousness. That we refuse to see this condition indicates an almost complete lack of conscience on our part; this fact is evidenced any time we agree to embrace a feeling of hatred born of resisting those mo...

All forms of psychological -- and ultimately, spiritual corruption is rooted in some imagined idea about the true nature of freedom; this aberration is a miscreation that gradually takes on a life of its own, metastasizing each time we resist the revelation that any sense of self derived from an imagined freedom makes us, at once, both a prisoner of that dream and its inherent suffering each t...

Topics covered: Is mindfulness enough to stop negative patterns; Will the chatter in my head ever stop; Is 'what we resist persists' the definition of karma; What does this prayer mean: Holy affirming, holy denying, holy reconciliation, transubstantiation in my being; Why are fears amplified during pre-dawn hours; I was recently diagnosed with cancer; What does the term 'in scale' mean; How do...

Topics covered: Something in me wants to keep me in fear and humiliation; Why do I feel more negative during the holidays; Feeling like a fake; Resisting unwanted moments; How do I take the high road and forgive someone who hurt me; I want to help my family cope with the death of a loved one...

Add your own fly-by “I’s” to this list, or make your own. For extra benefit draw connecting lines between the various “I’s” that correspond to one or another, or that tend to show up in support of each other.

It is not the pain of the past that goes deeper, grows darker, becoming more intractable each time it’s revisited. Rather, this pain is the negative effect of an unconscious nature that loves to immerse itself in its own conditioned memory of that unwanted moment...

If you ever really want to know whether or not you're in a 'right place' for yourself -- or for any others around you -- just go still; be as inwardly silent as you can for a moment or two, and the truth will be made clear to you.

Part 1: The more we anxiously look around for a way to deal with the fear of any moment imagined as yet to come, the more immediate grows the fear we experience in the here and now. Part 2: No condition, in and of itself, is ever the cause of psychological stress, fear, or regret; suffering of this kind is inherent in an unseen, unconscious level of "self" that resists changing conditions because it is incapable of changing with them.