Classroom Talk: 1/29/2020 - If you want a “misery-backed” guarantee that whatever troubles you about someone else will get worse... Just be sure and start complaining to him or her about it!

Hidden within the opposing forces is a Light that, once realized, releases one from the bondage born of struggling with only one side or the other. Understood properly, all opposing forces contain and create their own gateway, but only when one stands before -- and within them -- long enough, consciously enough, to see it open.

Topics covered: Tasting a remark before saying it; What we have called ourselves has been nothing but unconscious momentum of thought; Full observation is full negation; Full observation holds the observer and the observed at once; Story of a man on a ship who anchored himself over the deepest part of the sea.

Classroom Talk: 11/13/2019 All unconscious reactions are useless except to serve the mechanical man who believes the involuntary sensations produced by his own familiar clanging and clanking... somehow prove he is alive, thriving, and most important of all... real.

One reason that judging others so appeals to the self that sits in such judgment of them...is because the comfort found in sentencing others for their "defects" serves to convince us of our perfection.

Topics covered: You receive exactly what you are moment to moment; If I'm not present to myself, I am not; To recapture your attention is to refresh yourself; What you think of as (psychological) pain is not really pain, it's a mind that doesn't know what to do with itself; Patience is born in a human being in exact proportion to seeing how impatience hurts himself and others; Humans are the f...

Topics covered: The vast majority of what we think about is driven by fear, only we don't notice it because we believe it to be the normal way to live; How many things do you not see because of fear? Because you are thinking about yourself? Thinking about yourself and fear go hand-in-hand; Fear drives all forms of self-judgment and judgment of others; Ask yourself: If I know that...

I have become extremely aware of the violence, the depth of hate, fear, judgment and all darkness within. I feel helpless to change and can see the self-destructive nature alive in me. What can I do? Is there hope?...

Seeing the spiritually lost state, the interior bankruptcy of other human beings, can be used to accelerate your own relationship with the Divine, but only if you understand that you are not on this earth to judge the nature of others, but to transcend it.

Real life is not by the numbers; it is impossible to "know" and grow at the same time. Yes, one can have a formula for a prescription drug, or a recipe for a good green salad; but there is no system of thought that can stand up to the ever-shifting changes of real life, let alone meet those same changes fearlessly. The self that knows itself through thought can never develop beyond the content of itself, any more than a math equation can suddenly outgrow...

Topics Covered: All judgment is born out of fear. There is no judgment until someone is first afraid of something; Fear is the source of hatred and conflict between human beings; There is no form of self-destruction without there being fear behind it; As long as we remain spiritually asleep we are a machine that is complicit in the harm being done to the world...

Guy Finley talks about how unnecessary anxiety, fear and suffering can come to an end when we voluntarily agree to become conscious of the parts of ourselves that presently hide out in the dark.