The purpose of any true interior practice is not to help us do or achieve something in the world that will make our future a brighter one, but to help us see something now about our present level of being.
The only way a man or woman will ever know a life without conflict is when they see the Love behind everything that happens -- not by imagination, but through direct participation, recognition. There is never a moment that God's will isn't actually pouring down on us in one shape or form of energy or another. It is never not taking place, which means that we can always be in alignment with a g...
Classroom Talk: 2/2/2003 - Contrary to popular psychotic belief, God did not create us to look upon His Life as a wish-fulfillment center. Instead, we are created to live in the awareness that God's life is the center of our being, and that to realize this relationship answers all of our wishes because Love itself has then become our life.
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Classroom Talk: 1/17/2021 - Part 1: There is only one path that leads to a relationship with what is holy, and therefore to a Life (that is) already complete, and that is to see without flinching - and finally without regret - the following truth. All of the eye-catching paths we first imagine, and then rush to take - seeing them as leading us...
Topics covered: Resistance arises from fear of an identity being threatened; We are born into a world of comparison which causes illusions and identifications; Each event we identify with strengthens the illusion of identification; We are meant to enter into a relationship with another order of consciousness; Fear arises when we challenge a belief; There is no psychological fear without negati...
There is a very distinct reason why the work of remembering oneself serves as the very foundation, the heart of spiritual self-liberation. It is very easy for us to forget what it is that we want from life. For instance, one can have an all-consuming desire to acquire some trinket or toy, or even a new relationship that -- "this time" -- will bring an end to one's loneliness. But as we have a...
Topics covered: Anytime that we momentarily enter into a new dimension of our own understanding, it opens the door for everyone else; When you see something new, you are new. You are introduced to a new relationship within yourself; Seeing something new is the sudden removal of a wall of thought that obscures what has always been there.
Topics covered: Plans to escape from unhappiness come from a consciousness that is arranging events for the very purpose of making you unhappy; Beauty is not something that a human being imagines. Beauty is a relationship with reality that already exists in consciousness waiting to be revealed; When you really see something, then all questions about what you...
When you go outside on a beautiful day, do you step into the sunlight and try to enjoy the warmth, or isn't the enjoyment inherent in the experience? Similarly, when you see a falcon fly amongst the trees, land, shake its tail, and then survey its domain... or a great buck with its massive horns, broad chest, and strong neck... do you try to feel the nobility of these creatures? Or isn't that...