The real adversary in our lives, that proverbial thorn in our side that leaves us aching and angry, and then sends us looking for someone to blame, is not what we have always believed. It is not something "out there." It's something "in here": an intimate enemy.

Most people want very much to be strong, but they do not seem to be able to find the real strength they yearn for.

The answers to all of life's questions can be found WITHIN you. Three ways to start asking the right questions.

Classroom Talk: 3/16/2022 - The sense of any disturbance within us is the awareness of being touched by Life. The part of us that resists this unwanted sense of being "upset" by life is, in fact, powerless to restore the equilibrium it feels has been lost. In truth, all forms of painful resistance are the negative effect of an unconscious nature at war with life itself... as it blames life for disturbing its imagined peace.

Topics covered: Our lives are currently predicated on dealing what is unreal, the pursuit for answers to suffering that is blamed on outside conditions that seem to be responsible for the suffering but in reality are not; Every image that comes into your mind to lend you a sense of security also comes with a second force built into it that will prove it is unreal; A false sense of self, a false identity...

Topics covered: Blame is the denial of the manifestation of your nature. Be responsible for your own nature and for its manifestions; It would not occur to you to look for an answer unless there was also a feeling that something is missing; The perfect answer to your pain has been with you all along, but you have not been able to see it because the pain itself is what has been looking...

Topics Covered: There is so much blame and conflict in the world because hardly anyone understands their pain; When physical pain comes, what is it there for? It is there to alert us to the fact that there is a disruption in our normal level of health; The 'I' that appears and reacts to the moment of the registration of the pain is not the same 'I' that is going to bring about the healing...

Most people would rather complain about "unwanted" moments than (agree to) meet, illuminate, and die to the lower - habitually negative - level of self responsible for their repeated appearance. Always having something to blame - and to complain about - is how this dark nature keeps itself out of the Light that alone has the power to reveal the lie that is its life; so that as long as we remai...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of May 4, 2015. That we blame anyone or anything for our suffering reveals our blatant refusal to accept responsibility for our present level of consciousness. That we refuse to see this condition indicates an almost complete lack of conscience on our part; this fact is evidenced any time we agree to embrace a feeling of hatred born of resisting those mo...

In this life, we have one of two choices when it comes to painful events, past or present. We can either go on hating and fearing what we think life has done to us (or others), and let these negative reactions create our experience for us... or we can learn to use these same dark reactions to free ourselves from them. But just wanting to learn the truth isn't enough...

Topics Covered: My burden is easy and my yoke is light; If you set an intention you will have a revelation; Blame is the deflection of a revelation; Humans are created to be present to another order of existence; Wherever there is a possibility there is first a limitation; The essence of a human being is that which is born in us moment to moment; We imagine a time when we'll be able to rest be...

When it comes to being in conflict with one another -- at whatever level or scale in which that painful relationship plays itself out -- each of us is responsible for what is happening to both of us...