Topics Covered: Trying to change yourself; Wishing that I wasn't that; Attention is taken by the reaction; Not my will but Thy will be done; Sit in the light of awareness of my powerlessness; Of myself I can do nothing; It isn't "your" consciousness, it is our consciousness; Thy will is to see and reveal my will; Who you really are doesn't need a future; Joy is discovering that...

Attention touches whatever level of being into which it reaches; sustained attention connects these levels and, if maintained, allows an exchange of energy between them...

Topics covered: Student observations from practicing new additions to the Return and Remain Attention Exercises; You can't have your life and God's life, too, but as you give your life to God, he gives you back a new life; What it means to become a treasure hunter; The awakening of consciousness is consciousness awakening to itself, but consciousness won't awaken unless something stirs it; The...

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...

Not only is resistance an unseen form of attachment, but it's also a form of attention...and attention "animates" whatever it touches, because attention is relationship. If one will take the time to see the truth of these thoughts, this means that no feeling can pass that you wish would go away, because resistance to its presence ensures that something of that state will remain for as long a...

Attention touches whatever level of being into which it reaches. Sustained attention connects these levels and, if maintained, allows for an exchange of energy between them...

Classroom Talk: 12/18/2002 - If only we were one-tenth as sensitive to the kind of thoughts and feelings in which we daily dress our soul as we are compulsively attentive to what clothes we must put on to be pictured well by others, our hearts would be light, our minds bright, and all would be Right in our soul.

Part I: Be encouraged by this truth and then do the inner work to realize the freedom it holds for you: Life itself never stands in our way. It never intends to hold us down. If something is seen by us as restricting our way, then, instead of backing away in resentment from what amounts to a vision of life provided for us by our own thickened thoughts about what we cannot be, let us turn our a...

Topics covered: Spiritual story about a knight who goes to rescue a princess imprisoned in a cave guarded by two chained dragons; Anything that is created is incomplete because it is connected to all other life; The activities we engage in is this unconscious nature trying to complete itself from the content of itself; All seeking starts on a false premise; What we seek is not the problem...

Attention touches whatever level of being into which it reaches; sustained attention connects these levels and, if maintained, allows for an exchange of energy between them. Consistent connectivity gradually grows into a form of systemic symmetry, permitting the once separated levels to start becoming integrated with one another.

An unattended mind breeds defeat. When we are not present to ourselves, whether we see it or not, we are breeding defeat. Energy is wasted in the mind that is unattended. When we are not attentive, our minds spend our vital life energy wrapped up in fruitless pursuits. Simply put, our minds are always working on something, even when we're not there! Wouldn't you like to be involved in decidin...

Part 1: The main reason we must always remember to hold our chin up whenever negative thoughts try to drag us down is because whichever direction we choose first in that moment is what the rest of us will follow. Part 2: As goes our attention, so comes our experience.