Topics covered: Be the observer, the conscious witness of what love is inviting you to see about yourself; There is a pain in me that I didn’t know was there; Learning to pick up the spiritual tab by living with your own pain; When you don't return unkindness with unkindness, old patterns collapse on the spot; Learning the lessons we’re meant to learn...

Topics covered: Letting go is an inside job; No one can "set you off" unless you have unseen expectations; We are already guarded when we meet people; Blaming others is a sign of a broken heart; When it comes to love and relationships, we are and always will be in training; Before any part of our heart can be healed, it must be revealed as broken; Giving your partner room to change...

Topics covered: The most important thing in any given moment is that I have to attend to "my" part of that moment, my responsibility; We never see ourselves at fault; There are two sides to every relationship; What can I learn in this moment about myself; Can I resist something that my partner has said or done without having an expectation of some kind; We accuse our partner of pushing our button...

Topics covered: Our partners are our biggest teachers; The story of Snow White and Prince Charming; How to turn around any relationship; Relationships are a resource and a tool for self-realization; Different kinds of negative reactions and pain; How conflicts unfold; We see each other as the source of our pain; Unseen expectations and demands; You can't fix another to fit your ideal...

Classroom Talk: 4/3/2024 - When it comes to conflict between us, and any other -- let alone a person we may love -- anytime there's some kind of painful drama being enacted... each of us is responsible for whatever continues to be played out on that stage.

Classroom Talk: 3/6/2024 - Part 1: When fear creates morality, as well as the rules governing them, there is no longer morality... and it is fear that governs. Part 2: That we should search only our own conscience for confirmation of what is good and true, this is the best definition of integrity; for that which is good and true is not social in nature, but spiritual in need and in deed.

Classroom Talk: 11/1/2023 - When it comes to being in conflict with one another -- at whatever level or scale in which that painful relationship plays itself out -- each of us is responsible for what is happening to both of us.

Classroom Talk: 4/19/2023 - The less we try to "teach" others about their shortcomings, the more insight we gain into our own.

Classroom Talk: 4/12/2023 - A great spiritual mystery: self-liberation is either found within what we're given to see, or not at all; the only thing we escape when running from any unwanted realization is the possibility of discovering its Divine purpose... whose revelation is the same as transforming and transcending it.

Classroom Talk: 8/24/2022 - We all want to be free of painful dramas in our life, yet refuse to see how we play a lead role in their daily appearance. Catching ourselves in a play of our own making -- hearing ourselves reiterate old lines even we are getting bored with -- sets the stage for closing the curtain on a show where we keep starring in our own suffering.

Classroom Talk: 7/6/2022 - Part 1: No stress or tension exists outside of the seed of some desire from out of which it grows. Part 2: Everything is better without tension!