Student Talks: 1/15/2021 - Key Lesson: Hoping to end the fear that accompanies us in so many of the unwanted moments in our life without first realizing the unconscious "machinery" that creates it is worse than useless; it's like blaming the path we're on for the pain we feel while walking it... when the truth is there's a stone in our shoe!
A great secret is that we can never be disappointed when we are truly waiting. In that kind of open expectancy, in which we drop all of our demands that life turn the way we want, there is a natural fulfillment. We are the most unhappy with our lives, the most negative, when we are the most full of ourselves. There is no open expectancy in a demanding negative state; there is only blame, regre...
How to Quit Looking Back, Stop Putting Yourself Down, End Self-blame, and Start Realizing True Happiness (Yes, you really can have all that... and more! Read on...) We've all heard it a million times: ""You are your own worst enemy."" But why? In what way? It's partly because of the inner critic that lives inside of us...
Classroom Talk: 7/23/2004 - Closing our eyes to where we may be in the wrong in that moment of any strained relationship does not make what is wrong within us any less of a burden to bear, but it does ensure that wherever we go we will find ourselves "bumping" into others and, for our pride-induced blindness, continuing to blame them for what we have refused to see.
Have you ever noticed that when you're under the cloud of some negative state, what you do to try to "make things better" actually makes the situation worse? Struggling to free yourself from your own negative reactions is a bit like throwing gasoline onto a fire, isn't it? Recognizing that you get trapped in this pattern of taking action that neither relieves nor rescues you from...
Topics covered: "A house divided cannot stand." This is referring to the consciousness that sets itself against what it sees as being separate from itself; Negative reactions are the evidence of an unseen contradiction in our consciousness that puts us into conflict against people and events that are blamed for the negativity; Whatever is offered on the level of thought as the resolution to conflict is the...
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Topics covered: Negative reactions create more negative reactions. And there cannot be a negative reaction without something that is blamed for it; The divided level of consciousness is put in its proper place in the moment of seeing that you are not different than what is being judged; We need new self-knowledge if we are going to become self-shocking; Every negative reaction is the...
Topics covered: The world that you are seeking to escape from is a creation of your own consciousness, which means that it cannot be avoided; The real source of conflict is inside the consciousness that blames what it perceives to be outside of itself; What goes around comes around, until there is acceptance of what is being revealed; The reason moments seem to repeat themselves...
Topics Covered: Stillness, peace and genuine security cannot be created by the mind. The peace that passes all understanding dwells in another order of our being that is beyond the intellect; The return journey to our spiritual home cannot be separated from the realization that you cannot fill yourself. Nothing that you fill yourself with will free you; The condition that is blamed for the way...