Being

I do not have to be better than you have made me, For you have created me in your image And there is perfection in this promise. But I do have to bear what you would make of me, If I wish to know my maker. Perhaps the greatest, yet least understood spiritual secret in the World is that being what I am is what it takes to make me better; Because only within what I am Is what **...

But How ... In that moment of Sweetness When you're relieved of all debt, Can you turn right 'round in yourself And in an instant forget ... How hard ... And unbearably heavy It has been just to be you, And yet still be so demanding Others must pay you your due?...

Student Talks: 06/05/2026 - Participating in the revelation of creation is the entrance into the realization of God’s life, paid for by the sacrifice of the lower self.

Student Talks: 05/08/2026 - Distractions never show themselves as empty sea-shells when the promise of their shape first catches the wandering eye. Perhaps that’s why – as we stoop down, and stop to pocket yet one more weathered prize – we never really notice – let alone step into – the vast sea that has cast them onto shore.

Student Talks: 12/05/2025 - 

Part 1

If you find yourself harboring resentment -- filled with angry thoughts or painful regrets -- having surrendered to the suffering induced by your own negative considerations... be warned: in the darkness of that nature is where affliction hides; it abides there, breeding the conflict it has with the natural tides of life, waiting to consume those who consent to enter the hell wherein it dwells.

Part 2

The hell in which we dwell is the conflicted experience of a conditioned mind trapped in a time it can't escape because it recreates it each time it returns there to resist and relive, again, a time of its own making!

Remastered Classic Talk: 11/30/16 - The compulsive "need" to be constantly on the move -- ceaselessly occupied, either outwardly -- or inwardly, in some useless consideration -- is how the lower nature fills itself with the nothingness it needs to keep itself from seeing its own emptiness.

Classroom Talk: 10/12/2022 - We are not lifted by spontaneous reactions; rather, we are chained to these momentary feelings by our identification with them. As long as our sense of self is a derivative of any temporary passion -- "high or low" -- our identity is nothing more than a by-product of the same... much in the same way as an ember owes its existence to the flame that gives it birth...

Student Talks: 11/19/2021 - Key Lesson: It is an eternal law: everything is always being changed, ceaselessly transformed into something else; but within us dwells the light of a Divine intelligence that is the unchanging center of all there is, or that ever will be.

Classroom Talk: 6/16/2021 - One sign of true spiritual success is when, at long last, we realize not only are we (always) standing in the right place for us to to be in that moment but -- even more telling is this: regardless how that moment unfolds... there is no one else on earth we would rather be!

Classroom Talk: 2/3/2021 - Refuse to weigh yourself by the values of this world, including what IT calls out as good, necessary, or true for you! Rather, weigh-in against the whole notion that your True Self can be measured by anyone, including yourself.

Classroom Talk: 1/20/2021 - In this world, there are three paths by which one carves out his or her destiny: cunning, industry, or love of truth. The "crafty" ones inevitably trap themselves. And while industry is good... it is, at best, conditional; all things created are subject to the passage -- and ravages -- of time. Love of truth, on the other hand...

Student Talks: 6/26/2020 - Key Lesson: One sign of true spiritual success is when, at long last, we realize that there is no one else on this earth we would rather be!