There is always something talking to us, and we don't know better than to talk back to it. The next time you find yourself caught in negative dark dialog, try to see that it doesn't exist without a corresponding so-called positive aspect, promising the end of dark days and a brighter future. In that awareness you stand in the middle as a point of observation, as opposed to...

Classroom Talk: 3/8/2023 - Only in a world turned upside-down could someone actually believe that his daily dose of stress, anxiety, and despair somehow proves he is as special as he imagines himself to be.

Topics Covered: Desire is not the answer to the sense of being incomplete; Enter completely into the emptiness; What measures everything will never know what is immeasurable; Revelation of our consciousness is the beginning of not being afraid of it; The only thing that bothers us about anyone else is what we want from them; The first priority is to see something that...

Classroom Talk: 9/29/2019 - Part 1: Refuse to negatively anticipate a problem, and you won't have anything to resist. Part 2: Any negative assumption that pops up in us about ourselves -- that darkens our aspirations for a higher, happier life -- are like sharp thorns on the stem of a fragrant rose: their only the power to cause us pain is if, or when we...

Classroom Talk: 6/30/2019 - Part 1: (Your) True Self is a "match made in Heaven," even as (the) false self dwells in a kind of "hell" born of its ceaseless conflict with any moment that fails to match what it imagines it must have... in order to ensure its equally imagined life remains in place. Part 2: When we finally understand that we cannot...

Topics Covered: Sensations and mechanical associations; Torment of inner dialog; Emotional pain and depression; Awareness vs. positive affirmations; Observer is the observed; Role as a bridge; Controlling nature; Resistance and fear; Concept of relaxation; Trying and failing; Worry about what other people think about you; Putting the work into practice; True forgiveness.

Topic: Wake Up and Walk Into the Light at the End of the Tunnel (4/7/19 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 3/12/2023 - Before we can hope to stop reliving any unwanted moment from our past, we must see that our experience of it is inseparable from how we ourselves have named it.

Classroom Talk: 7/3/2019 The more we consent to see that whatever we've imagined as needed from this world to make us feel whole, and then sought after in some equally imagined time to come -- is no closer today than in any time before it -- the nearer we are to attaining a holiness realized no other way: by agreeing, consciously...