Topics covered: The harder you work, the more profitable you become. And to be "profitable" means "to ascend."; Who do you work for? To know who it is that you work for, look at what you attend to all day long; You cannot separate the idea of "your" achievements from "your" fears; For us presently, resistance is an entirely personal force. And we get used by the resistance because we meet the resistance from the exact same part of us that...

Whenever you feel as though you are trapped in life and begin to resist the path before you, remember that these walls you see closing in on you are nothing more - in reality - than the hardened structure of your own thoughts struggling to conceive a way out of what amounts to what is their perception of the moment. To see this Truth is to start dismantling these walls, and to act upon this T...

Classroom Talk: 6/21/2024 - Useless resistance feeds useless suffering, even as useless suffering feeds useless resistance; but it is we who -- in our ignorance of this unseen relationship -- are consumed in the endless service of an unconscious nature that cares for nothing other than its own continuity.

Topics covered: Love thine enemies; Humans live a fictional life; Real life cannot be separated from the revelation in which it unfolds; Thought is time; The only thing you resist is the resistance you make in that moment; Resistance can be intellectual, emotional, or physical.

No condition, in and of itself, is ever the cause of psychological pain; suffering of this kind is inherent in the level of consciousness that resists changing conditions instead of using them to change itself!...

Resistance is a form of secret interest in whatever is being resisted, which means that resistance is an unseen form of identification -- only in "reverse".

It is impossible to learn the truth of anything that we resist, which means that as long as we refuse our own suffering we have no chance of ever uncovering the truth of the secret Goodness from which it arises.

Classroom Talk: 11/29/2023 - Our unconscious resistance to any unwanted moment ensures its continuation, and here's why: there is no lingering resistance that's not a creation of some form of (unseen) identification with the moment being resisted. To this understanding, add the following insight by whose light we are helped set free: identification is fixation, which means the more we struggle to escape any unwanted moment...

Topic: Release Yourself from the Pain of Paralyzing Resistance (Classroom Talk 8/2/23)

Topics covered: We are dominated by reactions on a daily basis, but the real problem is that we do not know that we are dominated; Unconscious resistance is the life-blood of the false self. Resistance is what keeps the false self alive; Some sort of self-compromise comes out of being dominated by the conclusions of negative reactions; A condition cannot be resisted unless something is certain that it knows what it is...

Topic: This Shocking Secret Frees You from the Prison of Painful Resistance (Classroom Talk 7/20/22)

In the long run, our attitude towards life’s lessons – and the direction our life takes in life – are one and the same; show me someone who resists the Light of Life’s correction in the course of his or her soul, and I will show you someone whose destiny is the darkness of total self-enclosure.