Classroom Talk: 5/12/2019 - The misunderstanding of our relationship with life, awash with the unseen and useless suffering it creates, is the "mind and heart" of the false self, whereas the realization of our relationship to life, including our willingness to fulfill the obligation it calls for... is True Self.

Topics Covered: Is it true that God never gives you more than you can handle; When your understanding changes, your perception changes; To be asleep means to be outside of Presence; You are meant to discover qualities of yourself through the ceaseless movement of life; How do I empty myself of a self-centered nature; The mind occupies itself with trying to fix the feeling of being incomplete...

Student Talks: 4/12/2019 - Key Lesson: The real reason why our heroes in life often turn out to be "zeros"... is because our "number" was up in the same moment that we went looking for strength anywhere outside of our True Self.

Topics Covered: Leave the teaching moment alone; Feeling an instantaneous sense of "No!"; Understanding the spirit of inquiry; Recognizing the pattern of: reaction -> description -> action; The circumstances are the stage for the lesson presented; The instruction exists in the very moment of disturbance; "Who you are" and "what to do" are actually one thing in the moment

Student Talks: 1/23/2019 - Key Lesson: The only reason we ever get “disturbed” over what others may or may not think about us...is because there is something in our present nature that wants to be.

Classroom Talk: 4/9/2023 - We can keep running through our day -- rushing to get to where the next thought tells us we need to be -- or we can work to let these painful impulses pass into, and through us; there is no other choice: either we're awake, and aware of the presence of this "demanding self" -- watchful, and willing to die to its dark will -- or we're caught in its draft, in a painful race going nowhere fast.

Classroom Talk: 7/4/2021 - Our greatest gift -- the heart and soul of our Divine possibility -- may be summarized as follows: not only are we created to give ourselves to what we love, but that we are able to discern -- consciously -- the difference between one order of Love that sacrifices itself for the sake of something Greater than itself, and another kind of love... that lives only to give itself what it imagines makes it great.

Meditation Talk: 5/3/2019 Since there is no self apart from the relationship in which it appears, this means there is no awakening, no liberation, apart from relationship. This means that any and all forms of "transformation" are not really a change in some separate "self" that seeks its own idea of being free, but rather what is called...