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Classroom Talk: 9/13/2023 - Trying to change any unwanted condition without first awakening to, and then realizing the nature of the consciousness responsible for creating it... is like blaming a mirror for what you don't like seeing (in it).

We must make - and keep - a special place within us for what we love; otherwise, our heart becomes an overnight motel filled with the visitations of a thousand fickle lovers... not one of which is capable of loving anything other than itself.

Classroom Talk: 9/6/2023 - To resist, and then avoid the unwanted appearance of any limitation in our life is the failure that we fear in that same moment. There is no other failure than to live in fear, and it exists only in the (self-inflicted) isolation of unconsciously identifying with any form of negative imagination.

The smallest effort to remember your relationship with the Divine connects you to a calmness whose power is the strength found in all things deep.

Classroom Talk: 8/30/2023 - Part 1: Whatever is created in time... is a creation of time; and all creations -- in, and of time -- must pass when their time is up. Part 2: If we ever look closely, we would see that the fear we have of the future is always dressed as a beggar; but if we dared even a closer look, we'd see that not only does that beggar bear a striking resemblance to us...

There are no enemies without someone, or something to blame for our pain; whereas, when we will be consciously aware of our suffering – without resisting it – then, is humility born; and where there is this order of humility there abides within it a love that will bear no enemy.

Classroom Talk: 8/23/2023 - The majority of would-be aspirants believe the "heaven" they imagine is the same as being in the presence of an unimaginable level of Self. And when -- as it must happen -- they are "rudely" awakened from their dreams, they do what comes naturally: they go back to sleep, hoping to find the comfort of another new shelter, in yet another make-believe world.

Psychological suffering is born of an unseen, “mechanical” resistance to life; it is the dark offspring of an unconscious nature that believes its painful experience of any unwanted moment is somehow separate and apart from the way it sees and reacts to it, accordingly.

Classroom Talk: 8/16/2023 - One of the ways the unconscious, divided mind hides the pain inherent in its conflicted nature -- not to mention its inability to bring an end to its suffering -- is by repeatedly condemning itself for doing, repeatedly, the very thing it keeps telling itself it doesn't want to do again.

Our greatest strength lies in our ability to realize that whatever may be the nature of some immediate worry or fear, it can be proven false... that is, providing we are willing to prove it so by walking into and through it, and to test this truth time and time again.

Classroom Talk: 8/9/2023 - Real life never stops starting over; but, before we can step foot in this timeless new kingdom -- and know any portion of its unencumbered freedom -- we must agree to step out of the world of dreams, and leave behind us their endless illusion of a "better time" to come.

One virtually unknown aspect of love - and, in a way, one that is most vital to your inner growth - is found not in correcting the path of others, but rather in allowing them the undisturbed, conflict-free space they must have in order to fully experience the consequences of their own choices.