Topic: See this Unsuspected Source of War and Realize a Peace that Passes All Understanding (Classroom Talk 11/1/23)

Topics covered: There are parts of us that do not want anything to do with the truth of things; Why is it that human beings have not known what to do with their suffering for all this time? Human beings are the captive of a suffering that they do not understand; Regardless of how conditions have changed as a result of our ability to change them with technology, etc., we are all still absolute captives of the suffering we don't understand...

We must make -- and keep -- a special place within us for what we love; otherwise, our heart becomes an overnight motel filled with the visitations of a thousand fickle lovers...

Part 1 Whenever we act from an incomplete understanding of the moment, the action we take must be equally incomplete. So, enact what we may in this way to resolve what disturbs us, we can never realize the peace we seek because -- by their nature -- incomplete actions always create incomplete results. Part 2 If you won't let love touch you, it can't help heal you.

Part 1 Here's a great spiritual paradox: the more willing we are to awaken to -- attend, and consciously suffer -- (our) human weakness, the more we are endowed with the Divine strength needed to transcend it. Part 2 The more we will learn to shoulder -- consciously struggle with -- the weight of any trying moment... by stepping up, and into whatever that responsibility our awarene...

The search for your true timeless Self begins and ends with being true to yourself; no other path exists; no power is required to walk it....

United we see, and are free; divided we struggle... and fall.

Topics covered:  One of the signatures of a small mind is the tendency to make mountains out of molehills; The sky has no reaction to the clouds that pass through it. But unlike the sky that allows everything to move through it, we identify with just about every passing thought; What we suffer over in any unwanted moment is not the event itself; we suffer over our reaction to the event. The reaction tells us that something outside of us is responsible for the negative experience of the moment.

Student Talks: 10/11/2024 - Key Lesson: Here's the truth that helps sets you free, but only as you agree to see its Divine Law at work within you: Real Life never asks for one thing more than what it's already given to you - in that very same moment - to make Good its request.

Topics covered: Bear the manifestation of yourself that you are being given in the moment to see. You are being given something to see about yourself so that you might go through a change; You are the center of every moment of creation because you are centered in a place where all celestial forces come streaming down into you for the purpose of revelation...

Classroom Talk: 1/1/2023 - Nothing ends that something doesn't begin; nothing begins that something doesn't end. To know this as true is to no longer live in the fear of emptiness, let alone to covet the feeling of "fulness"... As neither of these psychological states, including the false sense of self (unconsciously) derived from them, exists without the temporary conditions that create the illusion of their reality.

Classroom Talk: 10/1/2003 - Part 1: No one sets out to find ways to comfort himself without having first consented to making his own discontented nature King or Queen for the duration of that search. Part 2: Our spiritual sleep is upon a bed of thorns lightly covered by fragrant petals.