Classroom Talk: 9/1/2019 - Never trust in any negative thought or feeling that would have you believe, "There's no way!" Always remember instead that Real Life is a secret and vital flux of possibilities rising up from the ground of what seems improbable, much as a spring flower manages to bloom in a once frozen field.

Strive in all things, but especially in your spiritual work, to make your actions continuous. Even a small act of conscious self-work done each and every day is better than a large effort every second moon.

There could be no suffering over one's failure to draw nearer to God's life if these failed attempts proved only the impossibility of our spiritual aspiration; the truth is quite the contrary: Missing the mark would never be as evident, let alone so painful, were it not for God's willingness to silently witness these shortcomings and, right then and there -- through the invisible proximity o...

Classroom Talk: 7/29/2020 - The ache of any dark moment -- of any discouraging thought or feeling that wants to convince us we'll never be free... is simply a lie. Ours is always and forever the right to exchange any form of discouragement for the realization that nothing about it -- neither its pain, nor its attending sense of despair...

Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. The very fact that you know there's farther to go before your journey to freedom is complete also tells you that wherever you...

GF: Welcome everyone. Let me open our meeting with some thoughts about what is required of us to free ourselves of all the dark and discouraging states that seem to follow us around as we work at trying to realize Real Life. We will discuss some of these truths now, and again at the close of our chat. Most of us are familiar with the idea from Christian scripture that "my Father's kingdom has...

If you will proceed along the spiritual Path, even in the midst of feeling discouraged over your progress, you will make the glad discovery that no discouraging state has the power to keep up with any person who decides to put its dark company behind himself.

When we understand that our true purpose in life is to grow in the Wisdom of God's Plan, and that this Wisdom we seek itself seeks us to help it unfold in Goodness, then we also realize that whatever disappointments we encounter along the Way must themselves be a part of Wisdom's Eternal Plan. It is for this New Wisdom that we are spared from falling through that darkened door called discourag...

We can neither control, nor change any anxious thought or feeling that rushes in and sweeps us off of our feet because this "I" - this sense of self suddenly in a struggle to escape some psychological storm - is itself part of the tempest it so vigorously resists.

Topic: How to Transform Discouragement into the Truth that Sets You Free (9/1/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: How to Transform Discouragement into the Truth that Sets You Free (9/1/19 Classroom Talk)

Turn this knowledge into spiritual power to help dismiss any discouraging thought: Those parts of us that whisper to us from some unseen corner of our heart, that tell us that our effort to know the Truth of ourselves is useless -- or that our wish for more Light is a waste, these thoughts and feelings are nothing but the dark voices of uselessness and waste themselves. These negative states m...