Conscious separation from any negative state -- through the deliberate effort to observe that state -- is a very different bit of business than trying to insulate or otherwise protect oneself from it, whatever that method may be.

Topics covered: All forms of interior dialog are the justification of a deflection in that moment; You don't deflect what you are, the deflection IS what you are; A human being is the embodiment of the laws which brought him into existence; Discussion of the law of seven; No straight lines exist in nature; Resistance is a circle; You must meet the deflection point and not be turned.

Topics covered: fear, compromise, attachment, identification, resist, resent, blame, stillness, crisis, revelation...

How many of you are short fused? We'll say it in other words. How many of you have virtually no tolerance for anything outside of what you want? On a scale of 1 to 100 degrees, what is your acceptable range relative to meeting moments? Is it something like 2 to 98? Or is more like 78 to 79? That's about it, isn't it? This tiny little bandwidth, and if anything even threatens to...

Any resistance to the revelation of some weakness within us, is the weakness; so that contrary to the way we now perceive these painful moments, the resistance we feel to any unwanted moment is not there to punish us...

What you're really weary of struggling with is the weight of unseen resistance, and not the unwanted condition you imagine needs to be resisted.

The strange attraction we can't overcome to our own negative states is born out of our resistance to them, because this resistance -- i.e., of not wanting to feel the way we do -- is the same as giving our attention to the painful feeling we profess not to want!...

How many times have you found yourself thinking you'd like to develop a new skill or sharpen an old one? Maybe you've wanted to learn another language or play a musical instrument; further your education; or get up out of your easy chair and do some catch-up on that correspondence you've been putting off for weeks! But in each, or at least most, of these instances, before you can even get sta...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of December 2, 2013. Part 1: Psychological resistance is just a strong, painful sensation. (It is) a blind force of unconscious rejection, the life-blood of a negative nature that always -- and only -- appears whenever life fails to affirm one of its dark demands. Part 2: Trying to change any unwanted moment in your life -- without first changing that le...

The following eight points are essential spiritual truths. Individually they represent vital lessons that must be learned along the Path to Real Life. Collectively these same truths hint at the promise of a spiritual power for which there is no substitute: The certainty, compassion, and quietude of a mind filled by the Light of Truth. For the best results read each of these separate truths...

Resistance to any unwanted condition ensures you will never be released from it, and here's why: you can't "not want" some state of self without some unseen part of you wanting you to have just that feeling. So, the more you don't want it, the more you get it! Grand summary: resistance is negative identification.

The pain of conflict in our heart is never for what life brings our way, but is the negative effect of clinging to self-limiting ideas that resist Reality as it unfolds.