Student Talks: 4/15/2022 - Key Lesson: The Unknowable Source of Peace in real life far exceeds our reach... because it can't be grasped, let alone taken by hand; it can only be received by a heart that has willingly emptied itself of hope in all things seen.
There is a lower world where fears are real; where all things, and everyone living in this world is an unknowing part of -- and participant in -- the fear that's found there...so that in the reality of this realm, the thing feared is inseparable from the nature that fears it; which means any action taken by this nature to end the fear it feels, becomes the seed of the next fearful state. Ther...
Student Talks: 10/03/2025 -
Life gives.
Life asks.
And when, at last,
We are willing
To surrender whatever
Life may ask of us,
Excluding nothing –
Let alone our most
Familiar sense of self –
Then, for having died
To the fear of death
We are set free.
When you realize no one else on this earth can be like you... that no other soul may know the beauty, sorrow, light and darkness you alone are given to see... then you will, at last, be the fearless individual your Heart of hearts has called you to be.
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Topics Covered: Our hope is not in things seen; Being the witness of useless suffering; Use the fear of the future to find the fearless heart; Accept the moment as it is given as an act of higher Will; We don't want to fix ourselves, we want to see ourselves; Dismissal of habitual reactions; Awareness of the play of creation; Replace the idea of "faster" with "more aware"...
Do you ever feel like something is holding you back from saying what you want, doing what you want -- from just being yourself? Are you tired of feeling as though your highest aspirations have been tucked away into a little box, when you know that your heart and mind are meant to soar? If so, then you're right where you need to be to break free of everything that's holding you back...
Topics covered: What the wanter in you really wants is to continue wanting; A person can't understand a true teaching if he or she is already full of belief about what the teaching is; The nature of the thoughts that offer to lead you through a disturbance are connected to what you want and to what you don't want; The more conflict that is created by thought, the more that thought is called...
To make any fear disappear just remember that it can not exist as it is without you being deceived into lending it your life force. On the other hand, your True Nature is created not only to live without the need for a single fear, but to realize that fearlessness is happiness.
Topics covered: One particularly pervasive lie in our culture is that we believe that we are only as valuable as other people see us as being; Until what is concealed in us is revealed, it can never be healed; "This above all: to thine ownself be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." -- William Shakespeare
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Topics covered: It is an illusion to believe that there is a moment coming in the future in which you will gain the control you need in order to feel at peace; You can never be free from fear as long as you see life as the source of your fear; We are looking for, and have a need for, a higher life that we cannot find in this world. The life that we find in this world will eventually be taken away.
Part I: One good reason to work at simplifying one's life is that fearlessness is the natural fruit of innocence. Part II: Nothing in the universe can interfere with the Will to be Free. This means that for those of us who would know Freedom, our part is not to struggle with what we perceive as our captor, but rather we need only learn to act within that Sovereign Self we would...
If we will do the right thing, in the right moment for the right reasons, there is no other possible outcome than for us to know Rightness. Such Rightness is its own reward; it is free of conflict because it is whole, and being whole it never seeks confirmation, which means it is fearless. These facts reveal that the path to True Happiness is not an up-hill road to be struggled over each da...