Advanced Inner Life Talks

Classroom Talk: 9/8/2024 - Words are rocks in the stream of consciousness; no name is the experience it seems to define. Experience - like the flow of a river - is a silent, wordless movement. We can either live in, and from the conditioned experience of a word, or in the timeless awareness of experience itself.

Classroom Talk: 9/1/2024 - As surely as planting a lemon seed will grow a tree full of lemons, so is the following true: any solution that begins with resisting (the pain of) some unwanted experience will not only prove itself fruitless, but always give birth to more of the same!

Classroom Talk: 8/25/2024 - We are so occupied trying to fill our lives with what we want that we can't see how all that we need is being given to us freely every moment of the day.

Classroom Talk: 8/18/2024 - When, before our inner eyes, we always have someplace better to be, or find ourselves struggling to "add a cubit to our stature," we miss seeing two great liberating truths: First, all imagined destinations are dreams whose promised fulfillment fades the nearer we draw to them...and secondly, blinded as we are by our hope in this "tomorrow" that never comes, we miss seeing - and realizing - that our True Self is a field of possibilities whose riches are not only immediate, but everlasting.

Classroom Talk: 8/11/2024 - Conscious persistence transforms unconscious resistance into Revelation.

Classroom Talk: 8/4/2024 - Every shocking revelation we are given to see, and to realize (if we will) as true about our present nature is -- at its heart -- an unseen act of mercy; it is the herald of an order of higher understanding unimaginable to the human mind.

Classroom Talk: 7/28/2024 - Only in a sustained conscious awareness of our (own) suffering are we awakened to see, and to know, accordingly, the healing presence of a Divine Light: a living, loving intelligence that reveals and conceives -- all at once -- the possibility of perfect compassion.

Classroom Talk: 7/21/2024 - Until the peace and pleasure found within us is equal to - or greater than any consolation found outside of ourselves - then our power to be patient, loving, and profitable in every moment is, at best, conditional; nothing better serves to sustain anger, frustration, and fear than being identified with a level of self whose life is founded, at best, upon the sands of passing circumstances.

Classroom Talk: 7/14/2024 - There are no signs, no words that mark the entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven; it is a lowly gate, unadorned save for the faint light that shines out from within it, welcoming all those who are weary of walking in the dark.

Classroom Talk: 7/7/2024 - Believing that avoiding the experience of an unwanted, or otherwise unknown moment is the same as freedom from the fear of it is like being lost in the African bush, crossing paths with a hungry lion, and hoping that if you just look the other way... it will too!

Classroom Talk: 6/30/2024 - Just as a prism takes in sunlight to reveal its hidden array of colors, so do impressions pass into and through (our) awareness, revealing therein an infinite number of unexpected characters, and their qualities... in that same moment.

Classroom Talk: 6/23/2024 - The greatest possibility for incarnating the subtle energies required for transformation is best realized in moments of a heightened awareness that, in turn, appears at the same time and place of maximum resistance (to some unwanted moment).