Student Talks: 10/30/2020 - Key Lesson: The strength of any painful resentment we feel toward others has nothing to do with any troubling character we may judge in them; rather (it is) born of an unseen weakness in us that believes others have the power to either give -- or take -- something from us that we need to be at peace with ourselves.

Topics Covered: No worldly pursuit can bring an end to the sense of being incomplete; We believe that unwanted moments should be avoided at all costs. It is a false belief because meeting unwanted moments reveals to us something that we brought into the moment that could not have exposed in any other way; A false belief is that we are only as valuable as others think we are...

Classroom Talk: 10/25/2020 - The strength of any painful resentment we feel toward others has nothing to do with any troubling character we may judge in them; rather (it is) born of an unseen weakness in us that believes others have the power to either give – or take – something from us that we need to be at peace with ourselves.

Topic: Let Go of These 4 False Beliefs and Be Free! (7/1/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 7/1/2020 - Most of our fears are based in a false belief that life can throw something at us greater than our ability to rise above it, or whatever frightens us about it. But this mistaken perception is as false as are the limitations it imposes on us. Our True Self never fears unforeseen changes in life any more than the sun...

Topics Covered: The first shall be last, and the last shall be first; Judgment of yourself is the continuation of karma; Don't try to be calm, be present to the storm; Realization is the release from the identity from of resistance; Each moment is a perfect mirror; To be spiritual is to see; Genuine prayer comes from seeing, not from wanting; Separating the wheat from the chaff...

There's only one way to stop being deceived by the empty promises of others -- including those produced from out of your own desires... And that is to know that nothing promised to you -- or by anyone -- has the power to "add one cubit to your stature."...