"Just remember in the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, lies the seed that, with the sun's love, in the spring becomes the rose." ~ "The Rose" by Bette Midler. When you find yourself in circumstances that seem difficult and dark, give your attention to the remembrance of the greater possibility that lies within the moment. In the light of that awareness, what has been concealed is revealed...

Topics covered: New, true self-knowledge reorders the world that you see. You see the world through the order of your mind - but right now the order of your mind is the world’s order; When you see the truth of something, that truth creates stillness; Feeling good about the work isn't the same as doing the work. There is a part of you always looking for a way to get around what needs to be done.

Topic: Stop Being Useful to What is Using You Up! (1/12/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Stop Being Useful to What is Using You Up! (1/12/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 1/12/2020 - The pain of any dark moment that makes life feel pointless is, at best a lie. Ours is always the right to exchange any form of discouragement for the realization that nothing about it -- neither its doubt, nor its attending sense of despair -- is native to our True Self.

Classroom Talk: 9/1/2019 - Never trust in any negative thought or feeling that would have you believe, "There's no way!" Always remember instead that Real Life is a secret and vital flux of possibilities rising up from the ground of what seems improbable, much as a spring flower manages to bloom in a once frozen field.

Classroom Talk: 7/14/2019 - Enlightenment is not an "achievement" because it can never be a static state. (It is) a level of being that sees, effortlessly, that Real Life is secretly a single, beautiful movement incapable of contradicting itself. The more we realize how this timeless celestial truth includes everything that happens to us, the more empowered...

Classroom Talk: 2/13/2019 - Part 1: Any “good” reason we have for why some weakness lives on in our character is inseparable from the unconscious level of self that offers it (to us). This means any time we feel compelled to justify our actions – and agree to do so – we’re complicit in the continuation of that weakness excused. Our inner task is to see these...

Just as Great Nature knows exactly what to do with the life of each of its creatures - in order to help perfect that unique expression of Her Being - so does Divine Love know exactly what to do with us... If only we would learn how to ask for, and then reach out for its Supernal Light.

Topics covered: You have to be more in love with what you're discovering than what your mind is giving you to discover; The collapse of a civilization is inevitable; You can't legislate the inalienable right to freedom; Man-made laws come out of principles but are not the principles themselves; Life ceaselessly creates a center point; The secret of an awakened life; The restoration of identity...