Every moment is the right moment to start seeing ourselves as we are... regardless of whoever may be our "partner" of the moment. Maybe it's the person in that long line with us, complaining about how slowly things are moving. There's no better time to practice seeing yourself than when some part of you can't wait to "pounce" on the impatience of someone else. How about being ...

Whenever we act cruelly toward another, it's because something cruel "takes over and handles" the moment for us by doing what it remembers to do.

Classroom Talk: 11/27/2019 Part 1: The more you remember this one great Truth in times of trial, the sooner will its power help set you free: Each moment of life unfolds as the seed of a brand-new possibility... But only if, and as, you allow it to show you who and what you can no longer agree to be! Part 2: To observe the moment...

What does it mean to put the truth first and foremost in one's life? And why should one even try to do this, when it's so much easier to just continue doing what one wants to do for oneself before all else? The answer is surprisingly simple: what we put first, the choices we make in life are a direct reflection of what we value. What this means is that our experience of life -- for its pain...

Remastered Classic Talk: 2/17/16 - There is only one-way to change who, and what we have been: we must set a conscious intention to observe ourselves... as we are, under any and all circumstances. This means that moment-to-moment, we choose, consciously, to see what's unfolding within us through the "eyes" of a higher part of us that knows -- even as it enters the fray -- that our freedom begins with ending our identification with lower, unconscious influences.

Topics covered: Student observations from practicing new additions to the Return and Remain Attention Exercises; You can't have your life and God's life, too, but as you give your life to God, he gives you back a new life; What it means to become a treasure hunter; The awakening of consciousness is consciousness awakening to itself, but consciousness won't awaken unless something stirs it; The...

The universe is a work being continually perfected; though unseen, it is justice, compassion in action. Those who resist and resent what comes their way -- who fight with its unending waves that rock their contrived sense of reality -- are actually the ones who live without real choice. They must serve their struggle to resolve the sense of loss that comes each time the world changes without first having consulted them.

Part 1: Being responsible for our negative reactions begins with becoming aware of them. For instance, until we can observe and learn what it means be consciously passive to our own negative reactions then what else can we do but go on identifying with them and embracing, by default, the false perception that someone or something else is responsible for our pain. Part 2: Just as blowing on a...

Topics Covered: There is another, higher level of consciousness that is present for us in any moment that we are able to observe ourselves; We as human beings are created with the capacity to be aware of the divided level of consciousness that reacts with fight or flight; What we blame for our reaction cannot be separated from the consciousness that is having that reaction...

Just as we need to keep an eye on the kinds of friends we keep around us, so must we also remain aware of the circle of "friends" we keep within us.

There is only one-way to change who, and what we have been: we must set a conscious intention to observe ourselves... as we are, under any and all circumstances. This means that moment-to-moment, we choose, consciously, to see what's unfolding within us through the 'eyes' of a higher part of us that knows -- even as it enters the fray -- that our freedom begins with ending our identification w...

Before we can learn to free ourselves from our own fearful reactions to unwanted events, we must realize just how worthless fear actually is -- especially when we turn to it to protect us from what are essentially bad dreams wrought from the darkened works of our own imagination! When it comes to these stormy moments in life, what we resist always persists. In truth, it is our not wanting to...