Classroom Talk: 8/3/2022 - Our need to change, to be made new, is constant; however, so is our resistance to change. The former is inseparable from the freedom it heralds, while the latter ensures the continuation of patterns that imprison the soul. Choose the latter, and living becomes dying, but choose the former and see how dying leads to Life.

Topics Covered: How do our negative reactions begin? There is no negativity that is not rooted in resistance to the way that the moment unfolds; We get negative when events don't go precisely the way that we have imagined. This means that, without knowing it, we come into these moments carrying images; Everything that happens in any moment unfolds within us...

Classroom Talk: 11/22/2020 - Only by daring to see the truth of ourselves in challenging moments will we ever see, and then be set free by the revelations that await us there. For instance, the "weight" of any relationship that seems to overpower us is inseparable from our resistance to what it brings up in us. This means the only power...

Topics Covered: Relationship between mother and child; What did you have to do with your own birth?; We meet people from a limited understanding of ourselves; Whatever is buried in you is food for your development; Judgement is based on resistance to an instantaneous reaction of a pain we don't know what to do with; Deep and hidden pain carried over from childhood

Topics covered: It requires resistance to keep imagination real; The difference between higher and lower emotion; Lower emotion is the illegitimate child of a reaction; In higher emotion there is a sense of oneness, not 'I'; Real love bears all things; The more pure the impression, the more clear the action; There's nothing uglier than someone clinging to something; Attachments are an extensio...

Experiences themselves don't change us; Consciousness is in levels; Divine discontentment is a celestial touch; Self-realization is not a static state; What is the teacher; Patience is built into creation; The Divine is endlessly harmonizing creation; All relationships are revelations; Resistance is the father of painful patterns; Learning to see the real enemy; Seeing what is 100% useless; Ou...

Topics covered: Discussion of Guy's book, The Courage to Be Free; What is a true initiation; Our foremost responsibility is to be in the Presence of the Living moment; Why it takes courage to effect real change; Understanding the lower nature; Resistance breeds negativity; What relationships can reveal about us to us; Rising above the world of opposites; Spiritual self-sufficiency; The purpose...

Topics explored in this dialogue: Negative states give the false illusion of freedom; True change must occur in who we are and how we see life, not in what we have and what we think needs to be done; Unwanted events reveal the truth about ourselves, and our job is to see that truth unflinchingly; Resistance is a possibility killer.

Exercise: When you catch resistance in you starting to push back against life, don't go along with it, but also don't deny it. Work to 'be' it by bringing it fully into your awareness, which is the same as bringing it into yourself. When you do nothing towards the negativity, you allow it to be used as a connection between heaven and earth.

What happens in the moment where life throws something at us, or nothing goes as we had planned? We know what happens. Instant negativity! We become disgruntled. Unhappiness over what is unwanted ruins the day. Why? Because now we're resisting the event, wanting nothing to do with it. And how many possibilities do we have in such moments when we resist life like this? None . . . except to...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of December 25, 2017. What I am -- whatever its nature in an unwanted moment -- is one and the same as that moment I don't want.

We rarely see when we take the path of least resistance in life -- that low road called "guaranteed to go nowhere" -- because of how immediately we identify with the legion of thoughts and feelings that always appear in that same moment of our suffering to justify the "choices" we make to escape it.