There is a definitive risk connected to opening oneself up to intimate relationships. Relationships introduce us to not only the light and bright parts of ourselves, but also to interior parts that are unknown and in the dark. Life serves to introduce us to ourselves. Life brings us lesson after lesson, but currently we are selective lesson choosers because we only want to see what we imagine...
The fear of being misjudged belongs to a mechanical part of you that doesn't understand anything, let alone the fear it has of its own tendency to instantly turn dark and defensive should anyone dare question its nearly perfect understanding.
The real meaning of any given moment can never threaten the truth of who you really are; it can only serve to strengthen, and enhance your relationship with a Higher Order of Consciousness already present within you that is the source of all possibilities.
It's an eternal law: everything is always becoming something else; real life is ceaseless transformation expressed through infinite forms. But within us lives the sleeping seed of a celestial Self that alone can see -- in spite of all evidence to the contrary -- nothing really changes.
Seeking to comfort ourselves -- by clinging to the hope of a better time to come -- is like a hungry man standing outside a restaurant, looking in through the window, and trying to fill his empty stomach by watching other people eat.
Whoever serves any form of fear, as when one struggles to keep some relationship in life that compromises their integrity, what he or she fails to see is that all they win for their service is to become more fearful.
Don't wish for freedom; choose it. Start by challenging the false notion that negativities are true powers. Deliberately walk past any dark state whose painful presence -- left uncontested -- makes you a prisoner of its domain.
But How ... In that moment of Sweetness When you're relieved of all debt, Can you turn right 'round in yourself And in an instant forget ... How hard ... And unbearably heavy It has been just to be you, And yet still be so demanding Others must pay you your due?...
How do I find some way to feel good about something that I have no interest in? If I am trying to motivate myself, it means that I have no real interest in what I am doing. Why would I even want to try to motivate myself to do something that I have no passion for? Why would I run myself through the same loops that I have already seen as being empty? The answer is that we human beings have bee...
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Classroom Talk: 01/26/2025 - The path to self-perfection weaves its secret way through the land of imperfection, where only the conscious awareness of what we are shows us not just who and what we have been, but all that we are made to be...as we agree to be perfected right where we stand.