Topic: Enter the Perfect Protection of the Presence Moment (Classroom Talk 8/30/23)

Topics covered: "It is wise to seek immortality because time defeats all other ambitions." -- Vernon Howard; The attempt to avoid suffering is an ambition. The attempt to avoid the experience of yourself is an ambition; Our daily wishes are rooted in the imagination of a time to come in which we will not be in the pain that we are in now; What human beings presently call "freedom" involves a time to come...

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...

Topic: Anchor Yourself in the World Above Anger, Fear, and Worry (Classroom Talk 7/19/23)

Topics covered: When you try to escape from a moment, you ensure that you will meet that same kind of moment again and again; Your interior work takes a real turn when you realize you can't avoid yourself; The acronym "TOBADCEOM" from the doctor story stands for "Taken Over By A Different Cause Every Other Moment"; Every moment of your life your mind is given over to whatever it falls on in that moment.

Classroom Talk: 7/19/2023 - Stillness is the first action of truth. Stillness has no momentum, which means it never runs into anything. On the other hand, since all movement has its beginning in stillness, anything that moves into it is found to have simply returned to its original source.

Topic: 5 Simple Words to Help You Remember and Realize Your True Self (6/23/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: Sanity is a state of mind and of being that is at peace; The great task for all spiritual aspirants is to be completely what you are as you are being completed; The whole of life cannot be separated from that which is giving life; The orignal meaning of the idea of "sin" was connected to "missing the mark"; Thinking about tomorrow's plans to find peace and fulfillment is...

Classroom Talk: 6/23/2021 - One sure sign an aspirant has entered upon the true upper path -- and now stands on the threshold between the Kingdom of Heaven and (this) earth -- is as follows: He or she longs more for the whole experience of Life more than they want -- and keep running after -- the sensations born of ceaseless separate life experiences.

Topic: See Yourself in the Divine Mirror and Be Set Free (4/28/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: There must be a new kind of struggle, not with what our consciousness says is the problem, but with the consciousness itself; The world that we see outside of ourselves is a reflection of our consciousness. Whatever appears in the mirror of our consciousness was already there before it was revealed to us; There is no time and distance to cover between ourselves...

Classroom Talk: 4/28/2021 - Spiritual wholeness is a living, timeless estate... inseparable from the Divine Light that reveals it in each passing moment; (it is) not a static condition... as in the imagined, painful idea of achieving some imagined sense of permanent personal satisfaction.