As difficult as it may be to see, always strive to remember the following truth: The way you feel about any given moment is because of what you think you know about that moment. In other words, while it may seem that you're frustrated because you want to understand your experience, the truth is, it's your present level of being that's creating your frustration as well as the..."

Topic: How to Save Yourself from 10,000 Useless Struggles in Life (Classroom Talk 5/10/23)

Topics covered: Your mind never stops looking for something that troubles or bothers it; when it's not looking, then it falls into a daydream and delivers itself into the hands of something that requires you to struggle with it; I Sweat You - ISWTUE - Instant Struggle With The Unwanted Experience; What's the unseen purpose behind every ambition? I want to be free. I'm looking for a way to end all of my struggles in life.

Classroom Talk: 5/10/2023 - Never fight with life; your struggle is not with what opposes you, but rather with what you have yet to understand about the opposing forces that live within you.

Topic: Use this Simple Key to Start Realizing Your True Self (Classroom Talk 6/15/22)

Topics covered: Painful frustration and impatience always appear together, two sides of the same coin; The whole idea of tolerance is born out of self-righteousness that is unaware of itself; The so-called accomplishment of getting what you want sets into motion the conditions that will run counter to what you want staying in place, which means that you will then have to find something new...

Classroom Talk: 6/15/2022 - The ever-anxious feeling that life owes us something -- that we're entitled to have our demands met -- creates two problems at once: first, we are unable to see, let alone realize all that Life keeps trying to give us and, at the same time, the more quickly we are to blame life for the pain created by our own impatience.

Topic: Illuminate and Eliminate the Source of Personal Painful Conflict (9/2/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 9/2/2020 - The only true solution to any stress, anxiety, fear or frustration -- that rears its ugly head in unwanted moments -- is to do the (interior) work it takes to outgrow an unconscious, conflicted level of self that sees its pain as proof that it knows... the true nature of peace.

Topics Covered: Sensations and mechanical associations; Torment of inner dialog; Emotional pain and depression; Awareness vs. positive affirmations; Observer is the observed; Role as a bridge; Controlling nature; Resistance and fear; Concept of relaxation; Trying and failing; Worry about what other people think about you; Putting the work into practice; True forgiveness.

Learning what it means to take a deliberate step back from our reactions to life is the same as learning to walk past those parts of us that want us to believe our only choices in that moment are those presented to us from the content of these reactions.