Topics covered: A new insight comes when we realize that we've gone as far as we can go with thought; We have an obstruction in our minds that we don't know about because we've already named the condition that caused the blockage; As above, so below; we are part of a celestial circulation system; Without emptiness, there would be no circulation and therefore no life; There's always a moment of empty space between resistance and the cause...

Topics covered:  What we call our thinking isn't really us doing the thinking at all. Rather, it is a mechanical mind talking to itself about what each moment means; The nature that reacts mechanically has already concluded what the moment means even before the condition that stirs it to the surface. As we are, we are that reactive nature; Any time life runs counter to expectations, there is instantaneous judgment and resistance.

Topics covered: A part of us revisits painful experiences from the past because they provide a strong sense of self; What am I stuck in when I revisit any painful memory from the past? I'm stuck in my own resistance to the very condition I've agreed to revisit; The mind revisits the past believing that it can change what happened; There is a part of us that revisits the past to experience...

Topics covered: Unconscious thought is a reaction to resistance; You are ceaselessly visited by reasons for why you feel the way you do; Not one thing you do to release you from your pain actually releases you; Catching how you give your attention away; We are endowed with the capacity to create; We're lost in a world where we think we have to do something to feel better; It's the misuse of im...

Topics covered: There's only a tiny part of you that doesn't want to be negative; The definition of the living truth is the constant awareness of my fault; It doesn't occur to us to give ourselves up; We are third force blind; Every human being is in pain, and only a few realize it can be used to elevate them above the force of resistance; The greatest waste in the world is thinking about your...

Topics covered: Interior separation begins when you actively work to be passive to what is stirred in you; We have a false relationship with our pain; Life is a ceaseless event, and each event is a form of light; You are not a higher order of being but you can be brought into relationship with one; We grow by dying, not by winning; The question 'why' holds secret resistance in it; The intellec...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 4, 2013. When all is said and done, our experience of "where" we are -- any condition in which we find ourselves -- is inseparable from what we are; which means the following: Until we realize the truth of this invisible unity our resistance to, and suffering over unwanted moments amounts to nothing more than an unconscious struggle against... a...

Topics covered: Discussion about the lunch exercise to notice the feeling produced within you by the music before taking a bite of food; The only reason life ever seems boring is because you're asleep; We want to be content and happy in the quiet; Each moment is a reflection of the nature that receives it; Real feeling doesn't exist without exterior awareness; Resistance is the rejection of re...

Topics covered: When you really understand something you understand it from the tips of your toes to the top of your head; Real life is indescribable by the mind -- it's a living relationship; The root cause of negativity is resistance; Seeing the connectedness of all things is the source of common sense; We don't know the proper feeling of who and what we really are; In the present moment the...

Whenever we "collide" with life, parts of us we've never seen before are illuminated. It is the light of new and higher self-awareness that is our real friend in such unwanted moments.

Classroom Talk: 7/19/2002 - Part 1: When we feel overcome by a life seemingly turned against us, it is vital we understand these moments are not the outcome of some bitter Reality set against us. This suffering that seizes us is born of our resistance to seeing that the present foundation of our self is nothing like we had imagined it to be. Each such glimpse is a Gift of Reality, not Its denial of our hopes...

Topics covered: We don't want to escape our consciousness, we want to transform it. Negative thoughts and feelings don't need to be overcome, they need to be understood; You cannot resist something and learn about it at the same time. To resist is to separate, to push away; The problem with our attention is not that there are too many distractions. The problem is that we do not possess our own minds. Until we possess our own attention...