Guy provides deeper insight into ideas from recent talks as students report on their experiences and observations while working with various exercises. Topics include consciously choosing not to go with old patterns, bearing the pressure of painful thoughts, and working to allow revelation.
Without our unconscious consent the past is powerless to punish us in the Now.
You can't go on feeling sad without first consenting to stand in the ashes of some past event and then rubbing the memory of it all over yourself.
Any moment of real change is the past made perfect through the reconciliation of the will of Heaven acting upon the will of earth, and in that union creating the birth of a brand-new creature. Any moment of real change is the past made perfect. Not the past reconfigured, disguised as some new plan, but the past made perfect - and the past is made perfect in this intersection of what is perfectly celestial and timeless in its activity working upon...
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Classroom Talk: 10/22/2023 - Any time the mind makes a "package" out of some unwanted moment -- wrapping its reaction (to it) in familiar troubled thoughts, and negative feelings -- it does so at the cost of exchanging a priceless gift it's been given... in favor of giving itself another painful experience (of itself) that it doesn't know it's created for itself!
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Classroom Talk: 8/30/2023 - Part 1: Whatever is created in time... is a creation of time; and all creations -- in, and of time -- must pass when their time is up. Part 2: If we ever look closely, we would see that the fear we have of the future is always dressed as a beggar; but if we dared even a closer look, we'd see that not only does that beggar bear a striking resemblance to us...
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Topics covered: What this consciousness that we are born into sees, is not the real world; Close encounters of the truthful kind; The pain of any experience is created by coming into that moment already sure of how that moment should go; What IS can only be what is, and we presently live outside of what is; We are intended to exit every moment we enter as a different order of human being.
Topics covered: We live in a sea of sensations, which makes the dream we are in seem real; Each worried thought and feeling comes with a temptation to find consolation through what those thoughts and feelings suggest; The seeming motive for anticipating a moment to come is to get through that moment without something bad happening; The only way that you can look beyond the...
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Topics covered: The root of fear is the mistaken belief that something outside of yourself can make you whole; The fearful self must defend itself against anything that threatens its image; Who you really are has no beginning and no end. But you must stop trying to save yourself in order to really know that; Not wanting a negative state actually nourishes it. Resistance is a form of negative attraction.
Topics Covered: All thought comes from the past; "Maybe it's me" is a new thought; Nothing is new under the sun; Higher intellectual and emotional centers; There's a part of us that only wants to escape real life via thought; If you're not struggling, you're asleep; Rest comes naturally; Consciousness of resistance produces healing; Every human being is perfect in every moment; Perfection is...
To think of joyful days past as the path to happiness makes sense only if we believe that the best way to satisfy our thirst is to study water!...