Topics Covered: Every moment is intended to be use for self-discovery, not for proving yourself; The wall of self-limitation that we meet is actually a gate; Engaging in distractions is an attempt to get rid of the feeling of being unsettled; Useless suffering is the attempt to pay off an imagined debt; You cannot get stuck between a rock and a hard place without the mind comparing the...

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: Fear is poverty, and it doesn't matter what the fear is about; The depth of my fear is the depth of my poverty; The psychological pain we experience is not outside of us, but the deception is that it is; We have to die to who we have been in order to be reborn; Control is chaos; Unconscious duality is conflict; There is no reason for the moment outside of the...

Classroom Talk: 7/29/2020 - The ache of any dark moment -- of any discouraging thought or feeling that wants to convince us we'll never be free... is simply a lie. Ours is always and forever the right to exchange any form of discouragement for the realization that nothing about it -- neither its pain, nor its attending sense of despair...

Student Talks: 5/15/2020 - Key Lesson: There are many times when obstacles in our way prove more valuable than open roads...

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...

Student Talks: 4/17/2020 - Key Lesson: Conscious persistence perfects those who will suffer through the work it takes to discover that discouragement is a lie. Only then is its deception seen for what it is: a lower level of consciousness that wants us to accept its mediocrity as the only possibility.