Topic: Cultivate Conscious Self-Doubt and Stop Arguing with Life (12/22/21 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Entrance into the Peace that Passes All Understanding (12/15/21 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 12/15/2021 - There are no shortcuts to stillness. There is no trying to be empty; with almost no exception, effort is ambition...and though it is full of becoming, it is empty of Being. The darkness of (spiritual) emptiness is inseparable from the Light of awareness by whose grace we are given to see the unthinkable: it is impossible to fill ourselves.

Topic: Enter the Fullness of Real Life that Is Freedom Itself (8/25/21 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 8/25/2021 - Just as the wise captain of a sailboat knows that a dead calm often precedes a new set of winds to fill his sails, so can the aspirant who is patient in the face of a growing emptiness be assured that a whole new order of fullness is on its way.

Topic: How to Use Any Empty Moment to Enrich Your Soul (4/19/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: How to Use Any Empty Moment to Enrich Your Soul (4/19/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 4/19/2020 - Life will empty whatever you fill -- and whatever you empty, Life will fill. That's the code: it is the higher, still hidden understanding required to realize the timeless splendor of the soul, all wrapped in mystery and filled with bittersweet contradiction.

Topic: Free Yourself From the Fear of Empty Moments (3/22/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Free Yourself From the Fear of Empty Moments (3/22/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Free Yourself From the Fear of Empty Moments (3/22/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 3/22/2020 - A brief, but important glimpse into the truth behind the idea of "spiritual" poverty: only from nothing can God make us into something new.