Classroom Talk: 8/16/2023 - One of the ways the unconscious, divided mind hides the pain inherent in its conflicted nature -- not to mention its inability to bring an end to its suffering -- is by repeatedly condemning itself for doing, repeatedly, the very thing it keeps telling itself it doesn't want to do again.

Classroom Talk: 11/24/2024 - How to Stop Judging Yourself and Others

Pain pointed outwardly must inevitably manifest itself in some form of violence, having found no other answer than to set itself against whatever is blamed for that suffering...

To see that the speed with which a part of you leaps up to blame others for your suffering... is directly proportionate to the pain you're in before you lash out... is the beginning of the end of having any enemies in your life.

Here’s why no negative reaction -- no matter how valid, or inescapable it may seem -- can liberate us from any unwanted moment it blames for its pain: all (lingering) painful reactions are the reincarnation of a dark nature whose “life” depends on their reoccurrence.

Our judgment of others is not the proof of some fault in their character; rather, our negative reaction proves an unseen fault of our own: after all, why blame anyone else for a pain that we’ve yet to understand still dwells within us?

The next time you feel yourself starting to become frustrated, angry or scared, do your best to confirm this vital insight: Negative emotions cannot exist without having something to blame for their punishing presence. The clearer for yourself you can make this spiritual fact -- about the dualistic nature of spiritual weakness -- the better prepared you'll be to take your next step toward hig...

Life never stops sending her healing messages to us -- but they get short-stopped by the self that tells us it is everyone else who is sick, and that it is they who should be more receptive to the message of Truth. But remember this and you will realize many new healings: Any lesson you are certain that someone else ought to learn came marked to your attention first!...

Part I: About the only thing that we don't throw onto the fire when finding others at fault is the explosive fact of just how often we have found ourselves guilty of making the exact same mistake! Part II: We are never captives of anything other than the illusion that the negative condition that holds our attention for the moment is the only reality available for us to know.

Student Talks: 11/26/2021 - Key Lesson: The more we dwell on something in our life that we wish wasn't so, the more we soak ourselves in negative energies created by our own resistance. The longer we soak, the more we suffer; the more we suffer, the more we resist what seems to be the unwanted event when, in truth, what we are really drowning in... are the dark dreams of our own sleeping consciousness.

The real reason for our impatience is not the condition upon which we blame it: impatience -- along with its dark fraternal twin, frustration -- is born of our refusal to realize some present limitation and to remain conscious of it until it can be outgrown and transformed.

It is a distinct stage in the development of the aspirant when -- rather than being easily distracted by some imagined consolation for his pain, or by concluding who is to blame for it -- his first and real preference...