A wild stallion was captured and put in a wood-fenced compound bordering the open country in which he once ran free. His first week in captivity he showed all the wildness of a once-free creature now penned; but in the weeks that followed, even the dried grasses once refused as food became not only tolerable but even agreeable.

Topic: Freedom from the Prison of Anxious Thought and Feelings (Classroom Talk 4/6/22)

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 6, 2017. Freedom is not something you find by fleeing from a negative state into the waiting arms of some better time to come. Real freedom is seeing that the whole idea of a "better time to come" can't exist without the unhappy nature that needs to imagine it... and then dare to drop both that tormented level of self -- and the time it lives in...

Classroom Talk: 5/1/2005 - Any "god" we go in search of to free us from our fear is a false god created by a false god. We must throw away all false gods and their prison of time into which we rush whenever we pursue powers. Instead we must learn to turn around within ourselves and face the first false god: the self that sends us out of ourselves to find freedom. There is no freedom outside of the Light of Understanding, and what its action creates in the moment enacted.

Classroom Talk: 7/2/2003 - Freedom from self-wrecking behavior must begin with our recognition that we are voluntarily serving that which compromises us, even though we may strongly claim the counter is true. Such a conscious awareness of (this) conflict inherent in our own divided mind may be difficult to endure, but only if we fail to realize this last point: This conscious awareness (and it alone) is the seed of a new action that eventually flowers in a self-wholeness that is one and the same with true self-freedom.

Topic: Freedom from the Unseen Source of Fear, Stress, and Sorrow (Classroom Talk 2/15/23)

Topic: Enter the Fullness of Real Life that Is Freedom Itself (8/25/21 Classroom Talk)

Being fully present to oneself is freedom from the tyranny of the past and fear of the future.

Topic: Freedom Arrives When You Stop Serving and Begin Observing Your Reactions (11/17/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Freedom Arrives When You Stop Serving and Begin Observing Your Reactions (11/17/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Release Yourself from the Grip of Painful Tension and Realize Perfect Freedom (10/28/20 Classroom Talk)

Look where any man or woman spends most of their time -- upon what they spend it -- and, despite all protest to the contrary, you will see exactly what that person loves above all else.