Topics covered: Plans to escape from unhappiness come from a consciousness that is arranging events for the very purpose of making you unhappy; Beauty is not something that a human being imagines. Beauty is a relationship with reality that already exists in consciousness waiting to be revealed; When you really see something, then all questions about what you...
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Classroom Talk: 3/9/2022 - We can either resign ourselves to the negative experience of encountering one unwanted moment after another, or we can work to see -- and free -- ourselves from an unconscious nature that loves to arrange these meetings of the always miserable kind.
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Topics covered: What is eternal and timeless exists even within the seemingly mundane; Energy that is not squandered can be used to find the truth that from lower consciousness is hidden, but yet that is found in the center of all things; The stage of life where you are now is just as necessary as every other stage that comes before or after; The kind of freedom that is connected to...
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Classroom Talk: 3/2/2022 - Peace is not the opposite of conflict; it is the absence of it.
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Topics covered: There is a ceaseless exchange between what is celestial and what is common, and to be where that exchange takes place is everything; Human beings are always running and pushing so that they can get everything they need in order to rest. That day will never come for that divided consciousness; Your humiliation is your salvation. "Humility" may be the least loved word in the world today.
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Classroom Talk: 1/26/2022 - The more that we say, "later" -- postponing the inner work of illuminating any painful disturbance within us -- the greater grows the illusion that it's profitable to delay bringing what lives in the dark of us into the Light of Higher Self-Awareness.
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Topics Covered: Every mechanical psychological reaction is ignorance passing itself off as intelligence; There is no intelligence in an unconscious, mechanical reaction; There is no finding liberation through avoidance; Our habitual reaction in an unwanted moment is inseparable from the painful pattern that the reaction blames and resists; Something in us always knows what it wants...
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Topics Covered: The physical body has the ability to heal itself when we don't interfere. However, most of us are so distracted that we don't even know when our bodies are falling apart; Healing happens from the inside-out. Pain is asking to be healed; Why doesn't our interior, psychological body heal in the same way that the physical body does? If we could heal ourselves...
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Topics Covered: What we are looking for is already within us, not outside of us. It is true that "the Kingdom of Heaven is within," but we don't know anything about that when we're afraid, anxious, and fighting with life; What if we could know -- whenever we find ourselves in some kind of pain -- without having to think about it, that what we were experiencing in that moment...
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Classroom Talk: 10/21/2020 - The (spiritual) impetus to transcend our present level of self is granted in our first glimpse that what we really need is not a way to resolve, or outrun whatever punishes us... but rather to quietly – consciously – walk out of a dark and lower world inhabited by legions of self-limiting beliefs, including their...
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Topics Covered: Thought by itself cannot see the whole of anything; When we believe that we know why we are in pain, then there is blame. And the consciousness that blames is convinced that the reason for the pain is somewhere outside of itself; The blaming consciousness believes that it is separate from what disturbs it; The mind that blames has a future in which...
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Classroom Talk: 9/16/2020 - Nothing keeps you more aware of a pain you don't want... than does your struggle to escape it. Learn to see what truth is trying to show you about your strengths, instead of listening to your weakness tell you where to hide.
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