To everything there is a season, and life's great cycles of expansion and contraction -- of yes and no -- serve no individual save the one who has uncovered the secret of being in the world, but not of it.

Student Talks: 9/12/2025 - All anxious resistance to what "might be" is the avoidance of what is.

 

Topics explored in this dialogue: Psychological fear is the dark byproduct of negative imagination; It's easier to find things to blame or try to change than it is to deal with an unconscious mind that resists being examined; The reason fear continues is because it's the path of least resistance; There's a correlation between the amount of pain we're in and awakening from the dream that's prod...

While I understand in general that we attract negative circumstances through our resistance to them, it is practically impossible to understand losing a child. My son was killed in Iraq and I am certain I will never be whole again. (From student correspondence)...

Part I: Spiritual patience is born in us as we grow to realize that our individual lives are forever being revealed in a great Clockwork whose tireless and timeless mainspring is Love. Our part in this inexorable movement of Life is not to resist what appears untimely in its unfolding but -- providing we will remain open, watchful and honest about what is being revealed -- to realize that ever...

We live within a dynamic field of celestial energies whose natural opposition to one another is ceaselessly creating what we feel as a “disturbance” in our life: moments when primal active forces meet what naturally resists them, giving birth to an order of suffering that’s part of the process of creation...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of May 27, 2013. The appearance of any disturbance felt within us is the stirring touch of life. The part of us that resists this sense of being 'upset' by life cannot create the equilibrium it seeks; in truth, by its very nature, this resistance prohibits the very peace it pursues.

We can either be one with all that is changing in life, or we can remain in the dream that we live apart from these changes and continue fighting with them struggling on in the vain hope that we’ll find the peace we seek somewhere on the battlefield.

The greatest possibility for incarnating the subtle energies required for transformation is best realized in moments of a heightened awareness...

Topics covered: What is the soul; I can see there is something in me that has absolutely no interest in doing any real spiritual work; How do I work with the part of me that is so judgmental of others; I feel like I have no passion in my life; How can a person have great energy but yet be a very resistant human being; There seems to be a constant struggle within for self-perfection; Something...

Topics Covered: If you are against something you cannot change; The opposites are secretly complimentary; You can't win freedom, you can only be free; You can't judge without resistance; Avoidance is the continuation of the consciousness that resists; We are not our thoughts and feelings; No one is free who worships an image or an icon; All understanding is in scale...

Stop Biting Yourself!...