Topic: This False Conclusion Ensures There Can Be No End to Our Conflict with Life (Classroom Talk 2/28/24)

Topics covered: Part of your spiritual work is to see that you do not know what your best interests really are; The conditions in life that seem to oppose us have actually appeared in order to help us realize our best interests; A negative reaction looks outside of itself in order figure out what condition or person should be blamed for its pain; The very act of blaming the condition you don't want strengthens the consciousness that created those conditions...

Classroom Talk: 2/28/2024 - The unwanted moments that move in-and-out of our lives are like shadows that pass through a forest on a sunny day; they do not come as some blind force set against our best interests; rather, they come to help us realize what our best interests actually are.

Topics covered: Every step along the way to liberation is the same step: seeing the truth of yourself as you are in the present moment; Not one good thing has ever come out of impatience, irritability, resentment, or any other kind of negative state; We are not the way that we currently are because of any other person, any circumstance, any event, nor because of anything else outside of us...

Classroom Talk: 8/16/2023 - One of the ways the unconscious, divided mind hides the pain inherent in its conflicted nature -- not to mention its inability to bring an end to its suffering -- is by repeatedly condemning itself for doing, repeatedly, the very thing it keeps telling itself it doesn't want to do again.

Student Talks: 5/12/2023 - Key Lesson: There can be no "life after death" without realizing an order of Love that has no fear of dying. This Timeless Witness to its (own) creation doesn't see death as the end of life, but rather as its invisible partner in a ceaseless act of love.

Topics covered: If the world was capable of providing you with genuine fulfillment, then it would have done so a long time ago; The explanation of a spiritual truth is not intended to become a soothing affirmation. The explanation is intended to lead to interior exploration and real participation in your own life; Blame is you not helping me to be what I think I need to be...

Topic: The Courage to Face and "Erase" Whatever You're Afraid to See in Yourself (Classroom Talk 4/26/23)

Topics covered: The hope of this world rests in innocence. No innocence, no goodness. No goodness, nothing good, and when there's nothing good there's only that which pretends to be good; It is inevitable that there will be suffering each time you try to hide from the truth of yourself; A real man or woman never blames anything or anyone else for his or her experience of life.

Classroom Talk: 4/26/2023 - Praying to change the world around us is pointless until we see that the world around us is the way it is because we are the way we are; only in the realization of this truth -- and in our agreement to make the sacrifices inherent in its revelation -- is there hope for the world, and for us, as well.

Topic: Start Looking in the Right Place to Find Self-Liberation (Classroom Talk 3/23/22)

Topics covered: Everything that takes place in creation is the expression of a Divine principle; When engaging in physical exercise, there is an agreement to meet and go through resistance. The same thing holds true spiritually/psychologically; On the other side of the resistance is the flow. On the other side of the resistance is the grow; The real world is a world of infinite, ceaseless influences acting on creation.