Our daily dose of unhappiness isn't due to a lack of choices over what is needed for us to be happy and free, but this discontentment is the creation of an unseen nature within us whose only life is born of creating and considering choices that never quite satisfy its needs.
Be what you are: Don't try to FIX the moment; complete it... on the spot by bringing ALL that it reveals -- including any reaction to it -- into the undivided awareness of ALL being seen within it. In this “all-ness” is a holiness: The Truth that sets you free.
It’s said: Truth sets us free. So, welcome this Truth... and watch how it keeps its promise: The only thing we really fear (in life) is our own weakness... and this is only because we haven't yet realized another Truth: Whatever the weakness we may fear is NOT ours.
Once we see it's impossible to please ourselves at the expense of the pain of someone else, we are released from the cycle of seeking a false comfort whose conflict compromises "winners" and "losers" alike. Only then are we free to enter a new world – above the opposites -- where goodness is its own reward.
In this life... we're either liberated by each new truth that we agree to see and then realize about ourselves... Or, we become the captive of a nature that would rather reject seeing the truth of itself -- time and time again -- than to be set free from itself once and for all.
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Classroom Talk: 8/10/2025 - No one wants to be touched by the hand of suffering, so millions spend billions trying to escape what they see as something "raining on their parade." And yet, their fear is as misplaced as the misunderstanding that creates it, and here's why: into every life must come some rain, for without it... what else can a heart become other than a desert that never blooms?
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Part 1: The more we anxiously look around for a way to deal with the fear of any moment imagined as yet to come, the more immediate grows the fear we experience in the here and now. Part 2: No condition, in and of itself, is ever the cause of psychological stress, fear, or regret; suffering of this kind is inherent in an unseen, unconscious level of "self" that resists changing conditions because it is incapable of changing with them.
Student Talks: 7/28/2023 - Key Lesson: A true search for the beginning of things must, invariably, lead to the end of things; but the end of things is not the end of the awareness of them.
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Classroom Talk: 4/23/2023 - Once we realize that living within the limits of the known is the same as the limitation of our spiritual possibilities, there is no recourse other than to depart the safety of all that we have been... in favor of discovering all that we're created to be.
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Classroom Talk: 2/15/2023 - Intention without conviction is like a tree with shallow roots; it is easily up-ended, and ends up bearing no fruit.
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Classroom Talk: 12/10/2021 - What is Timeless hides within, and just behind the illusion of time.
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Classroom Talk: 8/25/2021 - Just as the wise captain of a sailboat knows that a dead calm often precedes a new set of winds to fill his sails, so can the aspirant who is patient in the face of a growing emptiness be assured that a whole new order of fullness is on its way.