Being fully present to oneself is freedom from the tyranny of the past and fear of the future.

There is no such thing as the innocent remembrance of some past pain or tormenting moment in your life.

Nothing in the universe can make you relive some painful moment from your past as long as you choose to live in a self-renewing awareness...

Student Talks: 8/29/2025 - Rushing somewhere, through anything, in the hope of finding some imagined peace of mind is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!

Whatever form your resentments may take, they wreck only you... not the one you resent. So, here's a key thought to help you release this self-wrecking inner state: Holding onto some hurt or hatred -- over what someone may have done to you in the past - makes you that person's slave in the here and now. If you're tired of being a slave to a painful relationship out of your past, this study an...

Topic: How to Never Feel Stuck in Life Again (Classroom Talk 2/7/22)

Topics Covered: There are almost an infinite number of ways that people excuse their way through life. Everyone walks around with a false friend named MOE, which stands for "Master Of Excuses"; We are not supposed to prove our perfection. Instead we are meant to be perfected through using the moment and its relationships for revelation and self-knowledge; All things in nature...

Topics Covered: What we do against ourselves is done in the dark of ourselves; but whatever is done in the dark of ourselves is negated by the light; There is a part of ourselves that cannot wait to judge itself; Negative states hide themselves in the guise of a "good" judge; Suffer the judge instead of making someone else suffer because of the judge; The lower consciousness hides...

You can't "clean up" the past by talking to yourself about it anymore than you can put spilled soup back in the pot.

Topic: Learn to See and to Step Out of the "Same Old Self" (Remastered Classic Talk)(Classroom Talk 6/11/25)

Classroom Talk: 5/24/2023 - There can be no fearful thought of any time to come -- let alone the anxious struggle to control -- or otherwise avoid it -- without resisting a moment that has no existence outside of how we've unconsciously imagined it!

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.