There lives nothing real in our past -- regardless of how disappointing or painful it may have been -- that can grab us and make us its captive, any more than dark shadows have the power to keep us from walking into the sunlight.

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.

Classroom Talk: 3/13/2022 - Part 1: By wanting are all things not wanted... thus created; much as joy and sorrow, bound as one... are related. Part 2: If you build it, they will come; if you leave it empty... it will be filled.

Classroom Talk: 11/22/2020 - Only by daring to see the truth of ourselves in challenging moments will we ever see, and then be set free by the revelations that await us there. For instance, the "weight" of any relationship that seems to overpower us is inseparable from our resistance to what it brings up in us. This means the only power...

Part 1 We spend so much of our time thinking and re-thinking about how to succeed with our personal escape plans that -- for these same dreams of a freedom to come -- it never has a chance to dawn on us that our True Nature cannot be made a prisoner of anything! Part 2 When nothing seems to be going right, make your world a brighter place by remembering this simple truth: Whatever w...

Classroom Talk: 12/9/2018 - Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of December 17, 2018. We can spend our lives anxious and fearful over each arrival of some unwanted moment -- trying, in vain, to protect ourselves from it -- or, we can use each similar situation to see the following: resisting any negative reaction is the same as turning a blind eye to the lower level of self responsible for it...

Classroom Talk: 10/5/2022 - What man or woman, by running away from some disturbance -- be it fear, worry, or sorrow -- can hope to transform, let alone transcend their pain? The solution to suffering is found within it, much in the same way as is the fragrance of a rose protected by thorns.

Classroom Talk: 8/18/2021 - Until we learn how to use the moments we don't want... even the moments we do want are useless other than to strengthen the illusion of -- and our identification with -- a false sense of self that believes it will find freedom in a time to come.

Classroom Talk: 2/24/2021 - Unconscious opposition to unwanted moments can never change the condition being opposed because the lower nature responsible for mounting this opposing force not only remains unchanged, but resists all that it does in order to ceaselessly re-create itself... Including the unwanted moments in which...

Hidden within and behind all that you see changing around you dwells a timeless, changeless order of being; our eyes but half-seeing, we perceive only the outline of life, and not what truly Lives.