There is really no such thing as a "new year." What does exist is the rare human being who has entered into a relationship with Truth. That man or woman is renewed moment to moment to moment. If we are not renewed, then by default we are reliving the past, which makes it impossible for us to experience anything new.

Classroom Talk: 11/17/2021 - Part 1: It is inevitable, but nevertheless a truth seldom realized... until too late: any troubled thought that circulates through an unattended mind will eventually run into the outstretched arms of the very suffering it's trying to escape! Part 2: Here's a great paradox, and anyone who can solve its mystery stands on the threshold of self-liberation...

Classroom Talk: 5/24/2020 - Struggling to escape the mind-breaking pain of any past regret is about as useful as hating ourselves for having fallen into a pit of quicksand... Where the more we fight to escape the hold it has over us, the deeper into it we sink.

Classroom Talk: 3/11/2020 - The mirror into which I gaze is not on the wall before me, it is within me... so that all I see (therein) is a reflection of my consciousness. To know this Truth is to throw open wide the window of the soul... That by the Light showing me this unity to be set free from the suffering inherent in the illusion of a separate self.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of June 18, 2018. Our unconscious agreement to identify with the pain of any negative state - including the usual (anxious) rush to escape it - is one of the ways our false nature suffers - in vain - to prove (to itself) that whatever "self" it imagines, and then pretends to be is, in fact, real.

Classroom Talk: 7/18/2021 - Part 1: Nothing serves to create a greater sense of isolation -- a feeling of being cut off from life -- than being at the center of your own thoughts about yourself; where you live out your days as a castaway on the "island of self" upon which you have, unknowingly, agreed to abandon yourself. Part 2: No worldly acclaim, possession, or relationship with...