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Topics covered: You can't explain the mystery of yourself to yourself. You ARE the mystery that needs to be investigated. You don't already HAVE the answer... You already ARE the answer: What if real life has nothing to do with explanations, but instead has to do with participation?; The wise man because wise because he stopped answering his own questions; The antidote is in the venom. The answer is in the question...
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Topics covered: Wherever anything is, according to its nature and what that relationship is, it is always exactly where it needs to be to receive exactly what it needs to receive; We want to be free because it’s too painful to be where we are. Our suffering proves to us that we don’t want to suffer; We are always exactly where we need to be in order to fulfill the purpose we have been placed here for; What we are tempted by in all instances, with no exception...
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Topics covered: No negative state is a real feeling. Negative states are all born out of sheer resistance to a condition; Pure emotion is the result of a relationship between the observer and the observed. It's a feeling generated in the moment by the field that you are in; A real impression in any moment is the realization of your highest possibility in that same moment; You are always in a field of some kind, and everything you experience is a result of that field.
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Topics covered: Being aware that something is always trying to make God's business into its own business; Everything in one way or another always seems to revolve around "me" and it isn't going to stop by itself; The Work has always been about Metanoia, a turning around; It's a law that the moment you want to be someone other than who you are you're guaranteed to remain who you've been
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Topics covered: Thought dilutes the necessary experience of yourself; There is no development without an inner struggle in which a person will get banged up; What we get sucked into is the sensation of 'I' that fights with life; Some examples of false flags (something that seems to be on your side but is actually a deception and not for your best interests) include blame, plans, ideologies, lovely feelings, believing in people, believing in anything...
Topics covered: It is very unnatural to have an unexamined life; It feels to most of us as if life is always asking, "What are you gonna do? How are you gonna handle that? What's next? What about this and what about that?"; Tension seems to demand that you respond to it; So much of our time is spent trying to sort out why we feel the way we do; The mind is always disturbed because it never stops comparing...
Topics covered: Spiritual story about a knight who goes to rescue a princess imprisoned in a cave guarded by two chained dragons; Anything that is created is incomplete because it is connected to all other life; The activities we engage in is this unconscious nature trying to complete itself from the content of itself; All seeking starts on a false premise; What we seek is not the problem...
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As goes your attention, so comes your experience. As goes your attention, so comes your possibilities; All possibilities already exist within consciousness; Instead of being aware of all of our relationships, we presently think about our relationships; We presently experience the world only from the outside-in, whereby the outside world must line up with ideas of how events should unfold...
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All things have their natural place where they prosper; Our true nature must be returned to it's authentic, original place in the scheme of creation, where it is properly nourished. But how do we return to this celestial home that is within?; Our relationship with the Divine is only entered into by the realization of a new order of attention; As goes our attention so comes our experience...
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Any form of suffering or conflict that tells us to look into the past for its "cause" -- or to the future, in the hope of some imagined freedom to come -- isn't just useless, it's wasted.
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Any part of you that wants you to feel bad, angry, or sorry for yourself, including whatever thoughts it may call on to justify why you must ache, is a secret partner of the very pain it resists. This unholy nature exists for one reason only: to ensure that you continue contributing to the suffering it creates, and then sustains with your unconscious consent.
We are always being fed by impressions; Thought makes an icon out of every experience; Things don't come to you, you are revealed to yourself; The Prodigal Son is a story of consciousness; Consciousness is the awareness of something; Feeling disrespected is a result of that self overvaluing itself; Starving the self and feeding the soul; I know better than to start the journey to...