Classroom Talk: 11/18/2020 - Identifying with resistance to any moment the mind points to as a painful problem of some kind... is the only real problem there is in that moment. To see the fact of this -- which is the purpose of all true spiritual teachings -- is the end of looking for any kind of power to protect, or otherwise restore some paradise...

Topics Covered: We throw ourselves, of our own free will, into a prison of feeling powerless. The fear of being powerless is self induced; We all suffer from POUR Syndrome: "Prisoner Of Unconscious Resistance/Reactions"; Humanity is the evidence that there is no peace in a "time to come"; All pursuit of power in order to be free only empowers what is powerless within us...

Topics Covered: We're used to walking around feeling negative; The will of the herd; You must fully expire the experience of being negative before you can be free; Instinct acts before the human being knows that instinct instructs; Resistance is fascination; There are stages an aspirant goes through; Blessed separateness; The soul has the capacity to choose what it attends to; What is authenti...

Topics Covered: Resistance is the instantaneous appearance of an old body of experience; Faith born of seeing; The more you don't want something, the more you don't want it; Everything lines up for consciousness; Duality exists at the level of the opposites; Every human being is given a divine role; Using physical pain to maintain higher awareness; Working to be present before the disparity ap...

Interview with Jennifer Clark and Rick Lecuyer of The Namaste Show on 11/1/11. Topics covered: Spiritual ideas and principles are sunshine for the soul; The true nature of fearlessness; If I fight with life's greater story, I lose; Conflict is due to a misplaced sense of identity; We are responsible for completing a purpose on this planet; Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance...

We can't change others -- or, for that matter, the purpose of any given moment as it unfolds -- but we can work to place one less demand on both...

Topics covered: 'You're just going to have to drive yourself crazy'; You can't make a quiet mind and an open heart with thought; This work is to help develop all of your parts, not just the intellect; You need to be one with events that happen, which thought can't do; Contemplation is different from thinking about what happened; Thought can only imagine that it's working out problems; We resis...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of December 17, 2012. Dwelling on any dark state is a form of negative fascination; fear, doubt, resentment, and worry are all part of an unconscious routine through which resistance continues to refresh itself, all the while draining its unwary host. So remember: real life never repeats itself... and neither should you.

In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley dives deeply into the concepts of "joy and happiness," noting the important distinction between imagined "joy" and the kind of joy that is the natural outcome of life's authentic wholeness. Imagined joy turns into painful resistance to anything that interferes with the image. Seeing this with more and more clarity is freedom from the stressful compulsion to pursue an imagined happiness.

The vast majority of us go through life doing only what we have to in order to maintain a status quo; i.e., we do just enough to hold on to what we feel we need in order to get by. Our preferred path is the one that provides the greatest pleasure while offering us the least resistance. The unseen reward- for identifying with this unconscious inclination -- the result of our refusal to struggle...

Classroom Talk: 03/09/2025 - We can't change others – or, for that matter, the purpose of any given moment as it unfolds – but we can work to place one less demand on both. Only in this action can we hope to find the freedom for which we seek, because the only thing that imprisons us – in the end – is our resistance to whatever runs against our deeply seated demands.

Topics covered: Life never stops setting the stage for your development; There is a certain blindness we have that keeps us separated from seeing the effect that we have on other people, otherwise we would approach that person or condition completely differently; There cannot be resistance to any given moment without a judge that has come into that moment with us; Love transforms negative reactions into rescuing realizations...