Divine Dissatisfaction

Topics covered: We keep trying to change the exterior circumstance instead of waking up to our own expectations and demands; The way that we know we are good is how much we want to punish others for not being good; Letting go is the recognition that holding on hurts. The intelligence in awareness will not harm itself; The unattended mind will inevitably reach out and touch something that will cause pain...

Topics covered: What is "the seeker" inside of us; Caring for a parent with dementia; Why is this journey filled with seemingly endless perils and pitfalls; The moment of relationship is the revelation of a character in my consciousness; The prodigal son and the dark night of the soul; What love begins, love will finish the way it wants to finish it; What is the common thread that runs through every aspirant's journey; It is not "I" who remembers God, it is God who remembers I.

Topics Covered: False certainty, uncertainty, and real certainty are the inevitable stages that an aspirant must go through on the spiritual path; False certainty leads to misguided actions; We want certainty because our consciousness is uncomfortable with anything that is unfamiliar that does not confirm its perceived status quo; False security can be taken from you at any time...

Classroom Talk: 8/27/2003 - Life is going according to God's plan only if you are.

Classroom Talk: 4/16/2003 - There are two ways to learn about God's Life. We can either study past examples of sacrifice and humility, or we can agree to let God use us as living examples of what he wishes us to know about Himself. While the former approach may educate us, only the latter can elevate us into that Light and Life we wish to know.

Classroom Talk: 4/13/2003 - The soul of hard-heartedness lives in that unappeasable part of us that refuses to look upon the residue of its former "loves", coldly regarding them as worthless now because their "value" had been spent; meaning that they no longer provide this self with pleasing sensations by which to feel good about itself.