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Classroom Talk: 3/10/2024 - Being is a conscious relationship with what is now; knowledge is a relationship with what was, the conditioned content of the past.
Topic: Realize the Divine Purpose Behind Any Painful Human Relationship (7/7/21 Classroom Talk)
The awareness of our living relationship with the present moment -- our willingness to consciously practice its presence -- empowers us to know what's best for us without having to think about it.
Topics covered: Relationships help people discover hidden aspects of themselves; Most suffering comes from unconscious expectations and demands; Negative emotional reactions are conditioned responses from the past; Become curious, not furious; Childhood trauma and chaotic environments condition the brain to expect danger; People often unconsciously recreate familiar emotional pain because it feels psychologically familiar...
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Topics covered: When we have pain in our relationship with others, we never turn to ourselves and wonder, "What is this about?"; We have no idea what to do about our pain, let alone why we have it; The people and problems in your life are not there to produce suffering, they are there to reveal to you something latent in your consciousness that you do not yet understand; There is no "self" without relationship. It is a mutually dependent experience...
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Classroom Talk: 06/22/2025 - No seed - whether a kernel of corn, or a special talent - can prove itself any more valuable than the sweat it takes to sow it, cultivate & nourish it until it offers up its latent Good. In much the same way, the soul is a seed; relationships are its ground; and what grows when all is properly cared for...is unconditional Love.
There are parts of us that would rather be punished by unkind people than have to spend one minute being alone, because the only way these same parts in us can exist is if they have someone to resent or somehow fear. In this case we remain in these ruinous relationships because the fear or emptiness we feel in even considering leaving them seems to be too much to bear on our own. Here's the k...
What makes you a unique human being is found in your relationship with life -- and not in the degree to which you struggle to get others to perceive you as being unique.
Real Life is not a series of individual events comprised of a positive or negative nature; it is a ceaseless relationship whose ever-changing edifice reflects the marriage of all her members.
It is said, "Love makes all things possible." But love is more than just the promise of what could be; love is the secret source of freedom itself. Love serves as the creative force behind all that perfects and fulfills life. But it is greater still. Examine any good and noble quality in creation: Peace, Fearlessness, Success, Happiness, Excellence... and hidden there...
We too seldom stop to weigh the relationship between our own negative states and the weary world around us that these dark thoughts and feelings help create in our absentee ownership of them.