Any time the mind makes a “package” out of some unwanted moment -- wrapping its reaction (to it) in familiar troubled thoughts, and negative feelings -- it does so at the cost of exchanging a priceless gift it’s been given...

When suddenly -- through a sense of similarity -- I'm made present to some positive, uplifting quality outside and within myself, I am happy. I lend myself to it without doubt. But in moments I am introduced to something negative inside myself by an event that I don't want, I have to find a reason for it being there.

Student Talks: 6/28/2024 - Key Lesson: The greatest possibility for incarnating the subtle energies required for transformation is best realized in moments of a heightened awareness that, in turn, appears at the same time and place of maximum resistance (to some unwanted moment).

Classroom Talk: 1/14/2024 - The greatest possibility for acquiring the Divine energy required to facilitate the transformation of oneself is found only in the moments of higher awareness that, itself, can only be realized in the same time and place of one's greatest resistance to that moment.

Topics covered: What we call "experience" is a relationship between our outer and inner worlds; Nothing empowers us more than self-knowledge; It's not the condition we need to let go of but our attachment to it; If I'm not present to reactions then I'm ruled by the emotions that fuel them; We must be present to ourselves if we wish to discern the difference between what is helpful vs. what is...

Here is why it's impossible to run after, let alone come to possess real peace of mind: the same moment we set out to do so... we disturb it.

My most contented hours are those filled with emptiness; and I regret -- as comes their appointed time -- having to fill these precious moments with what is little more than the mandatory, but mostly empty business of this world...

Any negative states that try to stop you from taking the next step of any chosen journey are just psychological special effects...

Even though we often find ourselves feeling so, in truth... there is no such thing as being powerless. We see how a person who resists life--who hates or fears unwanted changes--becomes the instrument of a power that effectively renders him powerless to do anything but struggle. But we've seen the converse as well...

Topics covered: The Truth awakens a possibility that is literally beyond imagination. It is a kingdom within us that is not determined by thought; What we call our happiness or peace can be ruined by a single disturbance, and instead of happiness and peace, there is resistance.

Making the wise choice to release one's resistance to some unwanted moment does more than just change the perceived tide of events; it proves that we're never too far from the open inlet of a safe harbor whose deep and quiet waters shelter all who enter.

Topics covered: Freedom is our birthright; Use this life to be enlarged by love; Watching yourself inwardly; Resistance produces the circle of self; Events reveal our inner condition; Thoughts and feelings are the real trouble; Psychological fear doesn't exist; Dying to yourself, rebirth, surrender, letting go; Stop drop and endure.