Long before it's possible for us to be spiritually reborn, we must first awaken to ourselves. Awakening is the sudden realization that somehow or other what I took to be the only world isn't the only world. Because the way the mind works now, it looks out and there's just this world with you that messes with it and me that wants it right. It's all one world to me.

Any person who believes in a passage to heaven as their right for merely professing some belief -- or who asserts he or she is already being one of heaven's bulwarks -- is not just deluded but constitutes a real danger to anyone foolish enough to believe in their assertion of having such privileges.

Topic: How to Reclaim the Immeasurable Treasure of Your True Self (3/10/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: Your interior work is about your life, not about what others want from you or for themselves; It is impossible to understand life without understanding who you are; The moment that is being perceived, and the consciousness that is perceiving it, are not two separate things; The level of consciousness that is in conflict only knows how to call...

Classroom Talk: 3/10/2021 - There is an inevitable suffering inherent in any world governed by self-interest, and then there is a suffering born of dying to that level of consciousness that bears only bitter fruit. To become (as) One we must die to being two… where only by making that passage do we realize that (the) two have not been lost...

Topics Covered: Other than practical or creative thought, we don't need to think; The more you think, the more you sink; When we're identified with anything, we're asleep; Don't try to win, don't try to be strong, just watch and see; We suffer because we have forgotten; The worst that can happen if you go into a moment that you fear is that you'll learn something about yourself...

Topics Covered: Use the consequences of having been asleep to awaken to the consciousness that we didn't see before; What if my intention isn't to win?; Dreams are of the finite world; We are here to outgrow the idea that we need anything other than what we already are; Rebirth is the ultimate atonement; No dream can bring about anything other than the rebirth of the dreamer...

Classroom Talk: 6/28/2020 - Part 1: The futility and inevitable frustration of trying to "fit" the Immeasurable into our present level of consciousness is like spending a day at the sea shore, and then hoping to take the ocean home with us... in our sand pail. Part 2: We live in a world the size of our present understanding...

Classroom Talk: 6/24/2020 - Two angels were working together in Heaven's kitchen, each preparing a special loaf of bread that -- when all said and done -- was destined to become part of the Bread of Life. As such, when came the right time, their light-giving nourishment would be shared with some spiritually receptive human being...

Topics covered: Anything that introduces you to your mechanical behavior is of the highest value; Learning to die spiritually before you die physically; Having a disability changes your values; Christ already lives in you; The world asks us to be many things, and the Divine asks us to be one; You will have given enough when you understand there's no "you" giving anything; Everything is...

To make bread you have to bring a lot of different ingredients together. Each ingredient by itself, or even mixed together, does not make bread. The individual ingredients must have heat applied and be married together in order to create something altogether new that is more than the sum of the individual parts.

Student Talks: 5/8/2019 - Key Lesson: When it comes to being free, there is no such thing as the "next best thing." Therefore, it is the far wiser soul that agrees to "die" to her imagined freedom, than it is to live as a fool who realizes, too late, that he traded his soul for a servitude made comfortable by compromise.