Classroom Talk: 4/12/2023 - A great spiritual mystery: self-liberation is either found within what we're given to see, or not at all; the only thing we escape when running from any unwanted realization is the possibility of discovering its Divine purpose... whose revelation is the same as transforming and transcending it.

Here is a very simple set of six steps leading to a special order of higher self-command. The more you study and practice the insights that follow, the sooner will appear in you the presence of a whole new kind of self-command that never ceases to perfect itself, moment to moment, no matter what challenge life brings to your door. Step 1: Begin by realizing that your heightened awareness of a...

There is one essential ingredient missing in most of our relationships -- one that is definitely required if we wish to continue in our own development and help others to do the same. What is this powerful catalyst that only we can provide for each other? Room in which to grow. We can help others reach higher by simply agreeing, consciously, to give them space to go through their changes ev...

Topic: Step Over the One Great Stumbling Block to Self-Liberation (Classroom Talk 4/12/23)

The hardest part of the journey along the upward path is the gradual realization that one's work to awaken is, at best, imperfect. Along the ascending path each footfall serves to echo an unwanted reminder of one's imperfect actions, imperfect thoughts, imperfect emotions, imperfect devotion, imperfect attention, so forth on and so on. However, seeing the truth of oneself in this light is but...

Letting go is more than an act of asking for God’s will to be our own; it is awakening, moment to moment, to realize that our True Self is – and always has been – one with that which governs with Goodness all things.

The speed with which we are ready to "jump" on others for their missteps, is the rush of the false self racing to escape seeing its own limitations by attacking others for the same.

Every time we accept a negative state we compromise ourselves and increase the level of conflict for ourselves and everyone we meet.

No unwanted moment exists greater than our right to walk past the dark, or otherwise fearful parts of us responsible for that painful perception... as long as we're willing to meet, face to face, the lower level of self that fears change, and then work to use its fear to die to it.

Real life is not limited to what was; it is always new because it's the expression of a compassionate and living intelligence that actively shapes whatever it touches.

Real spiritual strength is realized, slowly, by daring to detect and drop the blind negative states that we've been allowing to define us.

The speed with which we are ready to "jump" on others for their missteps, is the rush of the false self racing to escape seeing its own limitations by attacking others for the same.