Topic: The Unthinkable Action of Asking for a New You (12/13/17 Classroom Talk)...

One way to prevent yourself from going through a considerable amount of useless pain is to see the truth of the following, and then to act upon your discovery accordingly: judging others doesn't change how much they disturb you; it serves only to distract you from seeing just how little it actually takes to set you off.

We can either spend our time thinking about what we don't have, feeling empty and bitter over some imagined contentment lost... or we can become quietly aware of what we already are and find there, within our Self, what is overflowing, full of Light, and beyond the reach of any dark thought.

To take just one small action based in best faith, or from some level of a conscious choice that serves what we believe in our heart to be Good or Right, outweighs a thousand of our best intentions that, on one hand, we so love to enjoy, but that on the other hand, we almost never employ.

Student Talks: 01/02/2026 - We do not become prisoners because we fail to escape some painful pattern. We become prisoners because we imagine there is a “someone” inside the pattern who must escape it. In truth, the sense of self that feels trapped is a creation of an unconscious nature struggling to escape the experience of itself. Once realized that the suffering inherent in this conflict is not yours…it no longer needs to be transcended; it's released without effort because it simply has no one left to belong to.

Have you ever talked yourself into a dark place -- or watched someone else do it -- by identifying with a negative reaction that wouldn't be there at all if it wasn't being fueled by the fear of some pain as imagined coming?