Classroom Talk: 5/15/2002 - When our love of the Truth begins to outweigh the fear in us of what we realize is True about us, it's not so much that we have found the path to freedom as it is that we have begun to realize that our own True Nature in God is already free.

 

Meditation Talk: 9/28/2018 - Unless... and until we learn how to be still, and listen to the truth that Life wants us to "hear"... we remain "self-taught" -- caught within, and living as a captive of a lower level of self whose imagined freedom is its prison. (30-minute talk followed by a 30-minute meditation)...

Topics covered: Immortality can be sensed; There is a part of us that is timeless; Life is a giant fractal; The mind re-runs the past; Nothing in the universe can stop you from changing; Why we believe we cannot change; Regret is a false consolation; Freedom is the outcome of release; Events are consolidated light.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of May 13, 2013. The living now, true Presence is not just the expression of perfect freedom; it is its center everywhere, the unseen ground from out of which all arises and returns in time.

Until we learn how to use the moments we don't want... even the moments we do want are useless other than to strengthen the illusion of -- and our identification with -- a false sense of self...

Classroom Talk: 5/21/2004 - We spend so much of our time thinking and re-thinking about how to succeed with our personal escape plans that -- for these same dreams of a freedom to come -- it never has a chance to dawn on us that our True Nature cannot be made a prisoner of anything!

Classroom Talk: 7/7/2024 - Believing that avoiding the experience of an unwanted, or otherwise unknown moment is the same as freedom from the fear of it is like being lost in the African bush, crossing paths with a hungry lion, and hoping that if you just look the other way... it will too!

When it comes to your sense of being a captive in life, held helpless there by conditions beyond your control, you may take heart in this spiritual fact -- but only if you follow it all the way to your freedom: a deep illusion has no more reality to it than does a shallow one!

I've got a few questions to ask. My first question is on something that Mr. Finley said during his "To Touch the Timeless Mind" address. He said something along the lines of, "It is not we who create love, kindness, freedom; the truth is these things create us." I am completely fascinated by this statement and have a basic understanding on what it means, but would love to hear his explanation...

The appearance of any disturbance in us produces an unseen desire that creates a solution "in time" -- something to get or someplace to be where I will no longer be disturbed. This cycle can never end until we end our unconscious relationship with the time nature that drives the sense that I will eventually be free when xyz happens. Seeing this is the very freedom we seek.

Part 1: No one can be made stronger that doesn't first agree to meet one's own weakness. No one can become wiser without first agreeing to meet one's own ignorance. But the fact of a transcending strength and wisdom is only proven in the face of weakness and ignorance; which means running away from any painful limitation is the same as agreeing to live as its prisoner. Never forget this one la...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 23, 2017. There is only one way to sharpen -- to polish and refine -- one's spiritual understanding, including its set of inherent interior skills... and that is to consistently, repeatedly throw yourself into and up against anything and everything that stands between you and what higher intuition beckons you to see, comprehend, and become.