Topics Covered: Fear is poverty, and it doesn't matter what the fear is about; The depth of my fear is the depth of my poverty; The psychological pain we experience is not outside of us, but the deception is that it is; We have to die to who we have been in order to be reborn; Control is chaos; Unconscious duality is conflict; There is no reason for the moment outside of the...

Topics Covered: Real change is rare; The lineage of the Work; Reclaiming your humanity is reclaiming Real I; Human beings are the only creature that can be in relationship with the world above them; A real human being has compassion; Immunizing the brain; The brain is in conflict and at war with itself; The past is a kind of infection; A conscious human being cannot be goaded; The field of thought...

The desire for greatness is not the same as the love of it -- for such a want causes us to compare ourselves with what is great in others, and from the seed of this secret contest springs conflict. But love of greatness embraces the Goodness from which it springs -- and such a love is never conflicted for having found a light that burns brighter than itself, any more than a spark in a fire con...

Classroom Talk: 7/17/2019 May as well try and explain to a door that its total possibility is nothing more than being open or closed - by a force not its own - as hope that a sleeping human being will be interested in seeing the futility of a life consigned to the swing of the opposites.

Part 1: The main reason we must always remember to hold our chin up whenever negative thoughts try to drag us down is because whichever direction we choose first in that moment is what the rest of us will follow. Part 2: As goes our attention, so comes our experience.

No oak became mighty in a moment, > No mountain towered overnight; > True greatness flowers in the soul > By long exposure to God's light.

GF: Good evening and welcome to our chat for this month of May. First, I will post some special ideas. As you will see, these insights will prove themselves to be critical along the Way to your inner awakening. There are times when it feels as though dark states of discouragement dog us, following us around as if just waiting for us to fall down, never to rise again. On these days our own lac...

How would you like to live from a nature where no matter what happens, no matter what comes at you, as soon as whatever it is lands on you, it's changed into something good? "Oh gosh, wow! You mean I could live from a part of myself where it wouldn't matter what it was that came to it -- no matter how dark, fearsome, hateful, worried, angry, no matter what it was -- as soon as it touched me...

Depending on how the day breaks for us, we often find ourselves feeling discontent about our life, experiencing any or all of the following conditions whenever we: Find ourselves unable to change or control someone near to us. Take a close look at our physical appearance and find we are somehow lacking. Run headlong into self-compromising behaviors beyond our seeming strength or ability to change...

Coming to any negative conclusion is like getting caught in a sudden rainstorm... and then jumping into a river to keep your shoes from getting wet.