Topic: Practice the Purpose of Each Moment and Find the Peace You Seek (10/6/19 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 10/6/2019 - The more we awaken to realize our true role in life is to fill the gap between "what is" with "what has been" -- by agreeing to die to any part of us that would otherwise interfere with its atonement -- the more we see the truth that sets us free: our willingness to make this sacrifice aligns us, on the spot, with an ineffable peace...

Classroom Talk: 4/14/2019 - Trying to change our exterior relationship to life without having first allowed it to reveal what needs to be changed within us... is like trying to change our reflection in a mirror because we see something in it we don't like.

Classroom Talk: 12/24/2023 - Blessed are those who do (what they do)... for the love of being a part of what they love; but few are those who know this Divine order of love, let alone what it's like to have Love itself as their life partner.

Classroom Talk: 9/10/2023 - We remain convinced that if we feel like something is missing in our life, then the answer must be to acquire it; this has always been our go-to solution when suffering over some discontent. But as long as our hope for contentment is remanded over to a search for something outside of ourselves, we will never see the fact that this discontent is inseparable from our present level of self...

Classroom Talk: 4/17/2022 - There is a very strange feature as concerns most human beings: we would rather feel anxious thinking about unwanted moments over which we have no power, than to practice placing our attention in the fact of that moment... where no thought is needed to build a bridge between ourselves, and a timeless peace whose Presence all of us seek.

Topics covered: You get caught in "thought pockets"; Identification is exclusion and isolation; Awareness starts with being in your body; You can't give yourself the gift of life; Impatience hides itself through insistence; There needs to be freedom to see before there's freedom to be; Everything that comes out of a moment is already contained within it....

Classroom Talk: 2/27/2019 - Until we learn to see - and accept each moment as being perfect in its native appearance - regardless how unwanted it seems at first - we will never know the incorruptible peace and contentment that comes with knowing - and agreeing to embrace - the Truth that sets us free.