You teach that what troubles us about other people is that we have within us that quality we dislike in them, and that being around them stirs that quality in us. So, if this disturbance is around a person who abuses children, are you saying my resistance to that person is because I am like him or her, and that somewhere in me is the potentiality to be a child molester? Please help me understa...

Being able to release one's resistance to any unwanted moments does more than help to change the tide of events; it proves that there's always a safe harbor available... if we'll just remember to "swim" for it!...

Topics covered:  The world we live in is both a laboratory and a gymnasium, in which we are intended to experiment and exercise in order to discover why we are here; The world cannot give you what you are really looking for. You eventually realize that you have to look someplace else; There is no such tomorrow that will ever free you from what you believe holds you captive.

Topics covered:  You can't be at peace with the moment itself until you are at peace with yourself; It is inevitable that everything in nature is always being acted upon and being completed through that action. Why is that not true of us when it comes to a relationship with the Divine? What is interfering with this "Divine inevitability"?; What is it within us that sets boundaries? We end up as prisoners locked within the very boundaries that have been set, and then fear anything that threatens to trespass. We become walking "No Trespassing" signs.

There are in existence, as part of creation, extraordinary primordial opposites. We know them as darkness and light, expansion and contraction, attraction and resistance. We don't know anything about resistance. What we know is to be ruled by resistance in our lives, instead of recognizing it as being part of a creative force meant for us to develop.

Classroom Talk: 3/27/2019 - Untouched, uncorrupted by what once was, and yet unfolding from it -- as does a new blossom from its bud -- comes forth the ever-present moment. But (such) newness holds no familiar pleasure for a mind locked in time: where its struggle to be free unfolds in self-spun captivity, an unwitting but...

The unconscious resistance to seeing ourselves as we presently are keeps us from becoming what God has made it possible for us to be.

Part I: Resisting any dark condition of ourselves does not save us from it. To the contrary, any unwanted states of self from which we try to rescue ourselves we not only revisit, but revitalize. Part II: Psychological resistance is not a positive strength but a negative power.

The suffering inherent in negative states is the dark creation of a level of self that believes its conflict with life can be reconciled through resistance.

Our essential resistance to deeply understanding the whole of any story is that such an undivided realization transcends the self that always identifies with one side and resists the other. However, it is by dying to this interior division of self that we ascend to our native wholeness and inherent holiness that is without fear of the dark.