Classroom Talk: 10/28/2004 - No one lets go who refuses to see that what is hurting him and what he is holding onto are one and the same.

Part 1 If it's a Real Life that you seek, then you must stop thinking about it -- running after what you want from it -- and instead learn what it means to look at your life. Only this action -- of conscious self-observation -- can bring you to what your heart of hearts seeks above all else: the realization of another order of Self -- already present within yourself -- that is greate...

Topics covered: Awareness and my capacity to attend to my actual state is what allows that state to change; This present level of consciousness apprehends the world and its relationships through an unconscious process of separation; Life is not happening to you. It is happening for you; Our present consciousness tells us the source of our suffering, our reaction, is something that exists outside of us.

Topics covered: There is no freedom without real faith, but faith is not a belief; Faith is the living expression of a human being's conscious relationship with the Divine. It is a direct participation in creation itself; You do not need to conjure up faith in order to participate in life. You need to be awake to what is keeping you from participating in that life, then real faith is there...

When we have moments where someone or something does what is upsetting to us, we look out and see a world that is out of order, do we not? And the pain we are experiencing in that moment cannot be separated from our perception that this person, this thing is wrong and out of order.

Topic: Being Unstoppable: How to Walk Through Any Fearful Moment; Questions: What is the difference between the whole of awareness and the whole of existence; Should I look for a partner or trust the relationships I need will be given to me; How to deal with past mistakes; Can dark forces control you through your eating; Does 'honor thy father and mother' refer to active and passive forces; Th...

Classroom Talk: 2/14/2024 - Part 1: The witness to experience is not bound by it. Part 2: It's impossible to enjoy any moment in life, while fearfully trying to control it at the same time... that is, unless your idea of pleasure is the pain of making impossible demands on "others," not to mention upon yourself.

Topics covered: It is very unnatural to have an unexamined life; It feels to most of us as if life is always asking, "What are you gonna do? How are you gonna handle that? What's next? What about this and what about that?"; Tension seems to demand that you respond to it; So much of our time is spent trying to sort out why we feel the way we do; The mind is always disturbed because it never stops comparing...

Topics covered: It is very unnatural to have an unexamined life; It feels to most of us as if life is always asking, "What are you gonna do? How are you gonna handle that? What's next? What about this and what about that?"; Tension seems to demand that you respond to it; So much of our time is spent trying to sort out why we feel the way we do; The mind is always disturbed because it never stops comparing...

In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley talks about owning your own attention for the purpose of observing the painful tendency to blame everything outside of yourself as the cause of whatever is disturbing you.

Classroom Talk: 11/14/2003 - It is far better for us to seek the Truth of ourselves, as challenging as this course may be at times, than to rest in the false comfort of believing ourselves to be something we are not, and then finding out too late the lie.

Topics covered: There is no such thing as a bad fact about yourself; What do we do when we don't want to see something about ourselves? The consciousness that resists immediately formulates a lie in order to protect itself from what it has just been shown about itself; "The unexamined life is not worth living." ~ Socrates...