Classroom Talk: 6/7/2002 - Part 1: Those pointed negative states that jump out of us whenever we rush to blame someone else for our pain are always dead-end streets whose one-way signs deceptively read: This way out! Part 2: In a heated moment of a trial with someone else, instead of struggling in vain to get him or her to see the lesson in it for them, we should learn to ask ourselves, "What is the hidden lesson in this for me?"

Topics covered: Everything that takes place in creation is the expression of a Divine principle; When engaging in physical exercise, there is an agreement to meet and go through resistance. The same thing holds true spiritually/psychologically; On the other side of the resistance is the flow. On the other side of the resistance is the grow; The real world is a world of infinite, ceaseless influences acting on creation.

Part 1To find the part of you that can love whatever any moment brings to you, is to realize the part of you that never fears or regrets anything that happens.Part 2Until we understand the unseen relationship that exists between self and its wants, we can never know what it really means to be true to our Self.Part 3As long as the highs and lows..

Just as St. Paul was forgiven by Christ for all the wrongdoing he was complicit in, so will the man or woman who brings their own "mud" into the light be relieved of their spiritual debt. The greater the debt, the greater the gratitude for being released from it.

Topics covered:  Seeing what is true is what then allows you to take a new action; You struggle because all you know to do is fight with what you don't want. This is what the world teaches;It doesn't matter how often you rearrange the stuff in your closet, nothing is new.

Topics covered:  If we all wore t-shirts that described our inner lives, they would say "Out of Order: Proceed with Caution;" The great unspoken assumption behind all of our unrest is the certainty that what is happening should not be happening; Everyone and everything challenges the order that we have established. And anything or anyone that is out of order must be put back into order so that all will be well again, in a time to come.

The first serving of any punishing wish or act towards another always goes to the one who dishes it out!...

Topics covered:  You can't know with your mind what is calling you to make the interior journey that saints and sages have spoken about; "Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there." -- Jalal al-Din Rumi -- "For he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." -- New Testament -- These two passages are essentially saying the same thing; Part of the interior journey is to enter into another order of being that allows for the opposites to pass through its field of awareness, but is never defined by those opposites.

Part 1: It is an unthinkable spiritual paradox that before one can ever hope to be dressed for the marriage divine, one must first see how unsuited he or she is to know such a Love. Part 2: Desires serve the awakening one, while one who sleeps...serves desire.

Wanting to punish others for the pain they "make" us feel is like tripping over our shoelaces and then jumping on our own toe to let the offending shoe know how displeased we are with it!...