Classroom Talk: 12/9/2018 - Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of December 17, 2018. We can spend our lives anxious and fearful over each arrival of some unwanted moment -- trying, in vain, to protect ourselves from it -- or, we can use each similar situation to see the following: resisting any negative reaction is the same as turning a blind eye to the lower level of self responsible for it...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of June 11, 2018. Part 1: We can either spend our lives shaking in fear each time an unwanted moment arrives -- trying, in vain, to protect ourselves from what we've imagined it means... Or, we can use that same moment to start seeing through a false self that believes some newly imagined strength will bring an end to its fear.

Classroom Talk: 2/27/2022 - Here is the real reason why so very few ever realize a conscious relationship with the Divine: higher Love is consummated only in the awareness and acceptance of one's own spiritual poverty... so that one's soul is slowly matured through an ever-deepening humility that is, itself, the doorway to Heaven.

Classroom Talk: 5/30/2021 - In the end, all forms of psychological suffering can be traced back to a basic single source: the false belief that our unwanted conditions -- whatever they may be -- are greater than our capacity to change our relationship to them.

Classroom Talk: 12/6/2020 - Identifying with some negative reaction to the appearance of any undesirable character revealed within us... amounts to a kind of self-induced exile from the Kingdom of Heaven by reason of self-ignorance.

Classroom Talk: 8/30/2020 - Part1: There can be no silence, no real peace in our heart and mind without full acceptance of each moment... And there could be no such acceptance of the moment without accepting what the moment reveals to us - about us - in that same moment. Part 2 - Self-acceptance is self-realization; self-realization is self-acceptance.

Classroom Talk: 7/12/2020 - The great misperception that secretly drives human conflict, with all of its fear, sorrow, hatred and pain, is that the meaning of life -- including its verifiable promise of perfect abundance -- is to be found somewhere outside of one's own heart and mind.