Topics Covered: Where do useless thoughts come from? Useless thoughts are the offspring of false, failed ideas. The outcome of continuing to follow a failed idea is a failed result; Our best ideas about what it means to be strong have proven to be useless; An example of a false idea is that finding a way to comfort yourself is the same as being content with yourself...

Classroom Talk: 12/8/2021 - Truthful ideas never need to be validated by others; they neither fear close scrutiny, nor avoid the light of any moment that calls for it. False ideas can never stand alone; they tremble whenever life questions their intelligence, mistaking the sudden onset of painful resistance as proof of their strength.

Student Talks: 6/7/2019 - Key Lesson: No image is alive. If the pictures we cling to had the power to satisfy the desire that creates them, then a picture of food would ease our hunger, and painting a smile on the reflection of our face in a mirror would help console our broken heart.

Topic: Free Yourself from the Ache of All Unconscious "Fake News" (2/10/19 Classroom Talk)