Topic: Enroll in the Finishing School Called Life and Set Yourself Free (Classroom Talk 1/24/24)

Topics covered: Spiritual ideas are worse than useless, unless you apply them in the laboratory of your everyday experience. You cannot fail, if you work; The problem with relying on a bucket-list to make you happy is that the bucket has no bottom; What we see now is only what is in the foreground, so that our experience is only what our attention is on in the foreground. But there could not be a foreground without a background...

Topics covered: The only times that you get upset in your life is when your psychological routine is disrupted; The acronym "ERAMS" from the doctor story stands for "Everything Revolves Around Me Syndrome"; Our addictions, whether physical or psychological, begin with the thought that the addictive routine will release us from the feeling of being unbalanced. Identification with the object of the addiction...

Topics covered: Everything that a human being imagines as being liberation is imagination. The truth cannot be captured in thought; You can only understand what is in you and what you have seen as part of yourself; The mind is in a constant struggle to reorganize the world it sees into what it imagines; You can't struggle to regain balance unless something in you believes it has been thrown off balance.

Topics covered: We are always in a struggle of some kind, hoping that our struggle will bring an end to all struggles. But one who struggles in the field of the opposites struggles in vain; There is a level of consciousness from which you can see with great clarity that left and right, up and down, right and wrong are not separate but always appear together; The consciousness that opposes life through negative...

Topic: How to Let Go and Enter the Divine Flow of Life: Part 2 (Classroom Talk 3/1/23)

Topics covered: The moment that you start thinking about being in the flow, you are cast out of the flow; Resistance to the disturbance seems to prove that we would be content if it were not for the disturbance; When a dream is interrupted, the dreamer comes up with a plan to get rid of whatever is obstructing the dream; Identification with anything always places a person outside of where the real flow exists.

Topics covered: The central longing of human beings is to reconnect with the Divine. We are disconnected from that longing when we are thinking about what we want; "The central urge in every atom, to return to its divine source and origin." -- Walt Whitman; We want to be connected to something greater than ourselves; We look in the mirror of becoming to tell us who and what to be...

Topic: Learn the First Law of Self-Liberation (Classroom Talk 7/13/22)

Topics covered: Human beings cannot change themselves without the help of something that intervenes between them and their tendencies; If you ignore the celestial laws of life, you do so at your own risk. You can't ignore a true law without becoming anxious; There is no unnecessary suffering that is not born out of a lower order of consciousness believing that it is...