Topic: How to Cross Over the River of Dark, Painful Dreams (5/19/19 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 5/19/2019 - Being able to realize, and then release one's resistance to any unwanted moment does more than just help change the "dark tide" of that event; it reveals that within us already dwell the untroubled "waters" of a celestial harbor: the timeless shelter of an eternal Self that becomes the same as our own...

Classroom Talk: 12/4/2022 - Thought, along with its incessant activity -- that we commonly consider as "knowledge" -- is a kind of dark Lego block; (it is) constantly building, only to be compelled to repair its own flawed creations. But, what is Divine in nature is not a construction of the mind that imagines a kingdom to come; what is Timeless and True lives now, or never. To seek it elsewhere... is a fool's errand.

Classroom Talk: 6/12/2022 - It's the rare dog, indeed, that doesn't dream about -- and then chase after -- a "bone."

Classroom Talk: 6/10/2020 - Nothing can take from us our spiritual freedom; it is a Divine Gift, which means any time we find ourselves struggling to escape the captivity of a negative state, it's only because we’re (temporarily) asleep, caught in the web of a dark dream from which we’ve yet to awaken.

Classroom Talk: 10/23/2019 "Taking thought" as a way to look into, understand, and realize the infinite possibilities actualized in each and every moment of passing time...is like trying to measure the breadth and depth of the Milky Way by looking at it through a microscope.

Classroom Talk: 5/29/2019 Along the upper path that leads Home, there are many phenomenal events that first tempt, and then -- God willing -- liberate the aspirant. The first temptation is the dream of being someone spiritually special: an image whose upkeep is the pain of being in conflict with any experience that denies its existence...

Topics Covered: You don't know you're asleep until you bump into something; There are parts of us that are laying in wait; Memory uses the disturbance to produce "someone" who is disturbed; You don't understand the severity of your psychological state; You don't own your own mind; As goes my intention, so comes my revelation; You are never in a neutral place; Every awakened person has one thi...