Any sense of discouragement that wants to drag us down into its dark world, where it feeds on the feelings of hopelessness that it loves to create -- appears when, and as it does -- for a single reason...

When it comes to true success in this life -- regardless of whatever world it is in which we strive for excellence -- there is no greater ability than to be able to do what we don't want to do, when we don't want to do it, and, in all cases, to do it well.

Any sense of discouragement that would drag us down into its dark world -- where it feeds on feelings of hopelessness that it lives to create -- appears only when and as it does for a single reason: to keep us from realizing that there is no such thing as failure for anyone who will consciously walk into... and then through whatever may be his or her present set of limitations.

Ask yourself this question, allow the answer to appear in your heart and mind, and you'll know exactly what to do with the appearance of any painful state that wants to drag you down: What is discouragement other than a dark suggestion offered up to us, from a cruel and negative nature within us, that's encouraging us to give up our wish to be whole, happy, and free?...

Classroom Talk: 6/13/2021 - Part 1: You can't be "no one." The choice is to be someone defined and confined by the limitation of thought, or to be (the) One who sees and realizes – without having to think about it – that (the) true Self is indefinable. Part 2: Awakening to the truth of Self starts with this understanding, and then daring to act on it...

Topics covered: A sleeping human being cannot do anything new; Every thought creates a payment due; There are no random events -- what seems to go by in the stream of time is part of time; Second force automatically produces awareness; The transcending of a limitation isn't in one of the opposites -- one awakens, one dies, and then one is reborn; Awakening is the gradual formation of a consist...

Although it may not always seem true... there is no 'dark side' to any image-shattering truth that we agree to see about ourselves; it is only our present inability to comprehend how this stage of (interior) illumination sets the stage for revelation... that makes us want to hide from its light.

The dark powers that presently govern this world are secretly dedicated to the denigration of (true) character...which they slowly achieve through attrition, tribal glorification of imitation, and the growing sense of discouragement felt by anyone who sees the promise of humanity slipping away in creeping mediocrity. Whenever any government promotes and celebrates the idea of reduced individual..

The only thing that discouraged feelings do is to keep you busy doing nothing except feeling sorry for yourself, which is the perfect guarantee that your sorry situation will remain hopelessly the same. Enough is enough! You don't have to put up with one more discouraging moment, let alone a life filled with its darkness. That's right. There is another choice you can learn to make besides fa...

Topics Covered: Every moment is intended to be use for self-discovery, not for proving yourself; The wall of self-limitation that we meet is actually a gate; Engaging in distractions is an attempt to get rid of the feeling of being unsettled; Useless suffering is the attempt to pay off an imagined debt; You cannot get stuck between a rock and a hard place without the mind comparing the...

Topics Covered: There is nothing more useless than looking outside of yourself to fix a pain that is not outside of you; All psychological suffering comes out of an identification with a problem outside of yourself that a part of you is trying to resolve; Real peace cannot be disturbed; Without disturbances there would be no consciousness of the world around us. But the natural and inevitable...

Your thoughts can no more tell you what is true about your possibilities than can a set of stream-side boulders know the nature of the waters that rush by them.