Part 1 When you're negative, you're dead; it may feel like you're alive, but that's only because of how much you don't want to feel the painful presence of (your own) resistance... with which you have become unconsciously identified. Part 2 You cannot resist any unwanted situation -- reject, or otherwise struggle with it -- and understand yourself at the same time!...

Look closely at any moment of your mental or emotional suffering and you will see that the lesson in it is invariably connected to a certain willfulness of yours expressed as insistence or resistance. Then see that insisting or resisting are essentially the same will and you'll begin to realize how significant are the words "Not my will, but thy will be done."...

The false self tends to resist all unexpected changes because these changes reveal there is no self (as imagined) apart from the changes that it resists.

In a moment of crisis, would you say that you're easy-going? Are you wide-open and joyous to be with? Or, in a crisis, would you say you're about as tense as a human being could possibly be? Isn't that true? The more tense you are through resistance, the more negative you become. The more negative you become, the more resistance resists itself. And the more you resist yourself, the more tense you become. So you run left, you run right...

Guy Finley talks about the importance of never meeting a child's negative state on the same level of negativity. To truly help a child who is negative we must observe what that behavior elicits in us, and meet it with awareness.

Nothing is emptier of its rightful, highest possibility than a mind filled with resistance to revelation... as all revelation is, by nature, self-revelation.

Whatever we consent to embrace in life -- including unwanted events that may cause us to suffer -- adds to our lives a measure of love.

Effortless contentment appears as unconscious resistance -- along with its “partner in conflict” -- involuntary insistence, disappears.

Topics covered: The divided state of our consciousness is always struggling in some form of contradiction; Desire itself is a formulation of the opposites; The original definition of the word "Mammon" pertained to an endless desire for possessions; The wreckage of desire are the psychological strings that come attached to any desire that we are not aware of; A negative reaction knows exactly what is the cause of...

Classroom Talk: 5/31/2023 - Part1: The fear of pain, the pain of fear: See how they feed one another... And (your) liberation draws near. Part 2: Just as the threshold of a house is recognized as the entrance into it, so should our pain be seen, and understood, in a similar light... for its appearance tells the same story, only in spiritual terms: not only (is it) a doorway into an increasingly fearless...

Topics Covered: When we are in pain, physically and/or psychologically, there is usually no awareness of anything other than that pain; There can't be any healing for us as individuals as long as we are fooled by ignorance that continues to pass itself off as wisdom; A conscious human being will not hurt him or herself; The entire concept of "getting through a moment" is ultimately fueled by...