Why did God, in his infinite wisdom, create a situation for humankind that would allow for so much pain and suffering? There seems to be so much wrong and dark today...how can the Divine be behind such things? What are we to do with what life brings to us -- that we are sure just isn't "right" -- especially when we can look out and see so many horrible things taking place on our planet? Someti...
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Classroom Talk: 3/4/2020 - If seeking -- even realizing -- the consolation of some comfort had the power to placate our appetite for pleasure, or if running from a fear was the way to throw off and escape its power over us... then surely, we would have realized this kind of peace a long, long time ago.
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Topic: Live These 3 Words and Be Liberated from the Past (11/4/18 Classroom Talk) - Moderated by Guy Finley, includes short introductory talk by Guy followed by Q&A with students.
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Topic: Turn the Pain of Blame into a Higher Healing Power (2/4/18 Classroom Talk) - Moderated by Guy Finley, includes short introductory talk by Guy followed by Q&A with students.
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Classroom Talk: 12/4/2019 Most of us are filled with wants that change nothing about who we are, let alone answer the emptiness inside. If we must ask for something, let it be for greater Wisdom; for possessions and powers come and go... but Wisdom is Now, and forever.
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Classroom Talk: 10/4/2023 - The consistency of any painful, negative reaction to some person or event doesn't prove -- as we imagine it does -- that the "guilty" party remains unchanged as "charged." Rather, what it does show -- at the very least -- is that it is we who are unchanged: an unwitting captive of being unconsciously identified with our own negative reaction.
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Classroom Talk: 6/4/2023 - Part 1: We cannot know the depth and breadth of our highest, heavenly possibilities as long as we fear to explore, realize, and release all that keeps us bound to this earth. Part 2: Our unconscious conditioning goes before us every moment, acting as the unseen judge, jury, and "executioner" of each, and every moment of our life.
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Classroom Talk: 1/4/2023 - There is no such thing as a compulsive pleasure, let alone a contented "slave" that lives under its lash; and yet billions of human beings serve some form of addiction, willing to turn a blind eye to how much they suffer for the sake of a pleasure they cannot keep, a security that cannot be possessed.
Topics covered: If the Kingdom of Heaven is within, then there is no distance that has to be travelled and time is not a factor in order to be in relationship with it; The need of the creation that is below can only be quenched by what is above it, which means there is an eternal relationship between above and below; What we call "Now" is where Heaven and earth meet, where what is below is acted upon by what is above, endlessly being made new.
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Classroom Talk: 8/4/2021 - There can be no reconciliation with (painful) karma until we enter it understanding the following truth: whatever sacrifice is asked of us to release our suffering serves a higher purpose than can be known by the parts of us thus called to realize them; and to that Divine end -- and for it alone -- do we surrender ourselves to a Timeless Intelligence greater than our own.