Student Talks: 7/1/2022 - Key Lesson: Part 1: The secret entrance into the unknowable Divine can never be found in this or that thought, but only within a faith-based action that must be trial-tested before it can be counted on as unquestionably True. Part 2: The instant that we stir any element of time -- of thought -- into our experience of the present moment we have sown...

Topics covered: To know myself requires being myself, and in the end, that is the whole journey. The end of the journey is knowing myself and the truth of myself in any given moment; You almost always forget the most important thing in any moment, which is to know that you exist; Your experience of any given moment is a result of what you serve. You receive what you serve, no exceptions...

Topics Covered: All relationships awaken us to aspects of our consciousness that we could not be aware of without those relationships; It is our discoveries that change us because they bring us into another order of reality that is already within, waiting to be discovered. What we really discover, in any kind of discovery, is ourselves; We would not have awareness of an event unless it were...

Of what use is our endless struggle to adapt and even achieve some of the more common culturally-valued prizes, knowing (as all of us do) that nothing we can ever possess has the power to stave off our own inevitable passing? The following quotation that I just love is from Vernon Howard, a great twentieth century mystic, that really not only helps to put this idea that we're...

We are always trying to build a self that won't disappear out of the things that are coming in the stream of time, never understanding that nothing we find floating upon this temporal stream can ever be timeless. And if this is true about the nature of the world's ever-becoming events, how much more impermanent is our sense of identity derived from them? But we're slow to learn!

Topics Covered: We do not need new powers; what we need is to see where we are rendering ourselves powerless; Thoughts become dead weight when they outlive the time that they naturally appear in the moment; No thoughts of a personal nature that we pick up in the stream of time have any real value to who and what we really are; Tension is a natural part of creation that...

Topic: Start Making Real Changes in Your Life from the Inside-Out (10/14/20 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: The moments in our lives that have been the most valuable have been those that reveal something to us that we had never seen before, where we are suddenly transported into another order of awareness; Everything that we will ever need to know about the spiritual life is right in front of our eyes twenty-four hours per day. There is a level of life that we are a part of...

Classroom Talk: 10/14/2020 - Just as nature practices perfecting herself through the myriad creatures she creates to reflect her limitless possibilities in passing time, so the Divine manifests Its Spirit through each soul It creates who may, in turn, (awaken to) realize their role in the revelation of Its eternal perfection.

We all want the comfort of knowing that there are things we can count on, that there is something in this life permanent. Yet, everything seems to slip away from us; people, places, and events all change. And as they go so does our sense of security, leaving us once again seeking something to give us a permanent sense of well-being. There is a cure for this seemingly endless longing...

We don't typically have much awareness of what is timeless because we are usually the prisoner of a mind that is seeking to become something in time. However, it is possible to see -- without taking thought -- that everything eternal is already in perfect harmony. This means that we can stop struggling uselessly to put the Universe back into order.

Topic: How to Fulfill Your Possibilities in Time (10/20/19 Classroom Talk)