Topics covered: My reaction to what I don't want from life validates my pain; The world we see isn't the problem. The problem is the way we see the world around us and ourselves within in it; I'm in an endless struggle with the world because I am in opposition to anything that opposes my will and what my idea of life is, and what I'm supposed to get from it; Try to be someone...

Topics Covered: There is nothing more useless than looking outside of yourself to fix a pain that is not outside of you; All psychological suffering comes out of an identification with a problem outside of yourself that a part of you is trying to resolve; Real peace cannot be disturbed; Without disturbances there would be no consciousness of the world around us. But the natural and inevitable...

Topics Covered: What does a difficult moment have to do with giving my life away?; Bearing the unpleasant manifestations of others; Do you think you're the only one who suffers?; Most men live lives of quiet desperation; Love is greater than the life it gives; Not my will but Thy will be done; Seeing the good in difficult moments; There is no such thing as discouragement without...

Topics covered: Discussion of the topic Relationship Magic; Guilty feelings over ending a relationship with a childhood friend; What is the difference between a retrospective vs. reflective consciousness; Choosing in favor of what you know is true in spite of the consequences; Fear wants to think for you; Our consciousness is one of lack, predicated on the feeling that I'm missing something; C...

Classroom Talk: 8/14/2022 - The imagined time of "rest" we seek is, in fact, the same as an invisible burr beneath our saddle, as whatever form of comfort it is that still eludes us doesn't exist without some corresponding sense of discomfort that keeps spurring us on.

Classroom Talk: 6/13/2021 - Part 1: You can't be "no one." The choice is to be someone defined and confined by the limitation of thought, or to be (the) One who sees and realizes – without having to think about it – that (the) true Self is indefinable. Part 2: Awakening to the truth of Self starts with this understanding, and then daring to act on it...

Classroom Talk: 2/20/2019 - Part 1: It's impossible to change any moment that we complain about because - for one thing - the unwanted moments over which we complain do not even exist apart from the level of consciousness that always finds fault with their appearance. Part 2: The more we complain about any unwanted condition in life, the more certain we can be...