Topics covered: When captured by a negative state, we cannot see ourselves as we are. In those moments, we can only see through the negative state's eyes; There is something present in any moment of revelation, something that is always there, that is more than who you have been; The source of your pain can never deliver you to the end of that pain in the way that it promises; Most people spend their entire lives looking anxiously around the...

Topics covered: Anxious thoughts about what to do in an unwanted moment IS the unwanted "moment" that you are struggling with; To know better than to not-want what you are experiencing is to see that all of the actions involved in not-wanting are futile. To know better is to recognize that you have been there in that same place, not-wanting your experience, a million times before...

Student Talks: 3/11/2022 - Key Lesson: Coming to realize any limitation in our consciousness is not the denial of our passage into and through whatever may be the next stage of our inner development; all such revelations along the Way are, in fact, the threshold of an invisible door that -- if we will but dare to stand there -- knocking on it -- never fails to open, revealing a secret entrance...

The fear of -- and unconscious resistance to seeing the depth and breadth of one's own weakness -- is not the same as realizing one's actual state of (spiritual) helplessness in that same moment.

Classroom Talk: 4/6/2005 - Looking to negative thoughts, or dark emotional states, for the power to help you out of some unwanted moment in life, is like hoping that your own shadow -- cast by the sun setting behind you -- can guide you out of a desert in which you have become lost!

Classroom Talk: 10/27/2002 - We know the disturbance of desire, as in the pain of when we don't want what life brings. But what we are not conscious of is the disturbance in the pleasure of wanting what we don't have! When we see that the disturbance of pain and the disturbance of pleasure have the same root and only seemingly different fruits, then our nature will begin its transformation.

We naturally want to discover more about ourselves through whatever it is that we attempt to do in life. And in order to do anything to the best of our ability, we must necessarily envision the kind of outcome that we want. But whenever events do not turn out as expected, we usually get angry at ourselves for having missed the mark. Anger is always the negative expression of some form of resis...

Topics Covered: Someone has to be the first; The healing of pain is in its revelation; Stop analyzing the pain and just see it instead; No reaction can heal itself; Do not oppose what opposes you; Every denial of the appearance of pain is the perpetuation of the consciousness responsible for it; Resistance to any unwanted condition is attributing power to it; If healing does not start with...

Whenever we collide with any event, and then run away from the scene of the crash, we lose the opportunity to discover that the only collisions we have in life are with what we have yet to understand about ourselves.

Resistance recreates -- and then reinstates -- whatever it opposes, including the false sense of self that keeps trying -- in vain -- to free itself from whatever it doesn’t want to see is true about itself!

Part 1 What is the weight of any unwanted moment... other than our resistance to it? Which means the real reason it's so difficult to set this suffering down is because, to do so, demands that we must also lay down the strong sense of self that doesn't exist without what it resists. Part 2 The real, but unsuspected problem with one's inability to attend -- consciously -- to all that...

The real reason people remain captives of unwanted circumstances in their lives is because they've yet to realize this great spiritual secret: Resistance is negative attraction. In other words: the longer we dwell on what we don't want in life, the larger grows that dark dwelling place in which we find ourselves living. ~~~ You need not answer to any disturbance within you. Any form of res...