Classroom Talk: 11/24/2024 - How to Stop Judging Yourself and Others

Where is tomorrow's fear other than in today's imagination? And, if this is true -- and IT IS -- then what to do with our attention in the here and now? Let it be swallowed up in the dark shadow of what "may be"...or hold it in the Light of awareness where no shadow can dwell, let alone its fear?

Classroom Talk: 12/3/2023 - An important observation -- giving rise to an equally critical question -- that most people would rather avoid than do the work to realize its liberating answer: have you noticed there's no place on earth where you can hide that some moment you don't want... isn't still able to find you?

Student Talks: 2/25/2022 - Key Lesson: Before we can see that "love is the answer" we must learn to be present to -- aware of -- and above all else willing to go to the heart of the one question that life never stops asking us in 10,000 ways, each and every day.

Topics covered: Healing begins with self-honesty. No honesty, no healing; The acronym "INASTY" stands for "Instantaneous Negative Assumption Syndrome Tormenting You"; Negative assumptions are closely connection to painful self-protection; When the mind registers a disturbance, it names the disturbance so that it can know what to do about it; Life is disturbance...

Remember this one idea, whatever the circumstances you must face, and the day will dawn when you will know the freedom for which you seek: Your struggle is with yourself, and yourself only....

Seen properly, only individual freedom is truly possible; but this liberated state of being requires total responsibility (from those who seek it) for each of their actions, and in all of their relationships.

Trying to dominate our destructive thoughts and feelings, or seeking to liberate our "better" parts through some form of self-discipline, is secretly at the expense of our freedom, and not in its cause. Freedom from the ties that bind, victory over our own nature, is not a conquest in the usual sense. Try to see the following as deeply as possible: *anything that has to be kept in check must a...

It's a great mistake to believe that negative imagination needs our involvement to trap us in fearful, conflicted, or otherwise angry states of self. The truth is just the opposite: our most familiar -- and often dominant -- sense of 'I' is shaped by the recurrence of these negative states; where our unconscious identification with this dark inner machinery is, in fact, the real source of our sense of captivity.

Real life never stops starting over; but, before we can step foot in this timeless new kingdom -- and know any portion of its unencumbered freedom...

Topic: Learn the First Law of Self-Liberation (Classroom Talk 7/13/22)

Classroom Talk: 11/02/2025 -Here is a great spiritual paradox: none can hope to know the truth of their Divine Individuality until they have realized their all-inclusive similarity with everyone they meet.