Classroom Talk: 7/9/2023 - When the winds of fortune blow hot or cold, sweet or sour, don't lean toward one or away from the other. Instead, remain upright; only the balanced mind can walk safely over and through the uneven surfaces of this world.

Classroom Talk: 6/23/2023 - The size and strength of any anxious, or otherwise tormenting reaction is no bigger or stronger than the extent of our resistance in the moment of its appearance. It's always the shadow we don't want that engulfs us.

Classroom Talk: 7/3/2022 - Part 1: Unattended thoughts attract unwanted relationships. Part 2: Identifying with any painful reaction is a form of negative fascination; it is an inverse form of Narcissism where we feel drawn to "stare" at -- to dwell on -- whatever may be that dark thought or feeling we're so sure we don't want to see. Stranger still, the more we resist the...

Classroom Talk: 5/1/2022 - Part 1: Until we can see that unconscious identification sits at the root of all useless suffering nothing real can change for us -- let alone within us -- save for what we're moved to imagine -- and then identify with -- as the next new solution to our pain. Part 2: False "I" is a disease. Real I is the healing. Awakening is the prescription. Now you know the...

We attribute the word "I" to what has no real I in it at all; The work builds in you a body of energy that can't be fragmented; The continuity of consciousness; Voluntary conscious suffering is the initial thread that lets you see what you are not; The cycle of tension and release; The energy to remember; You have to begin to be able to bear the spirit...

Topics covered: The illusion of a separate self; There is a communication between levels of ourselves that we're not aware of; We're conditioned to believe in the power of choice; The first choice is to see the nature of the chooser; The more awakened you become the less choices you make; Fear is a lie because there's no one there who is apart from life to fear it...

Classroom Talk: 4/10/2019 -The only real problem we have with any unwanted moment in life -- regardless how stressed, or conflicted may seem its temporary character... is that we have yet to see our unconscious involvement in its creation, and subsequent appearance.

What good is the love of Truth without standing up for the freedom it promises to those whom love it? This means that we must attend to, embrace, and then enact what is Light, Right, and True, even in the midst of all that may seem wrong within or around us. Only by daring to bring this intention into the midst of any such dark moment are we given to see -- first hand -- how His unfailing stre...