Classroom Talk: 8/2/2020 - Here's why no spiritual "secret" -- in and of itself -- has the power to transform, let alone raise our consciousness in any meaningful way: no self-knowledge, regardless how subtle, can serve its true purpose unless it is accompanied by the one element capable of actualizing it: consistent, persistent self-honesty.

Classroom Talk: 10/16/2019 Allowing any part of self to act in such a way as to deny yourself a new awareness of yourself -- whatever its quality -- is the same as refusing your right to realize the limitless depth and breadth of your true Self.

Topics covered: The dominant part of you isn't interested in being revealed; Until the perceiver changes, nothing perceived will; The first sight of the divine; The observer and the observed are a singularity; Being aware of your own awareness is the fifty percent mark; Who and what you are is outside of experience; Right now you are working for the experience of being spiritual...

What is any form of true art - whether expressed in verse, through action, or by a sublime vision revealed - other than the heart, having awakened, stretching its wings and rising into worlds yet known...and where, upon arriving there, claims them as its own...as does the eagle the open skies through which it effortlessly soars.

Topics Covered: Getting carried away by thought; "I" has a feeling to it that is instantly familiar; Consciously saying "I love you" requires presence; The world has become cheapened; Until you have your own attention, your life is not your own; Wrestling with the angel; Love doesn't hate, have an enemy, have a past, measure, compare, inflate, or self-stimulate; Throwing a toothpick in front o...

Despite our resistance to it, no unwanted moment in passing time -- in and of itself -- is ever "wrong", or "out of place." Our incomplete understanding of the reason for its appearance not only tends to color such moments "dark," but our unconscious identification with this false conclusion then acts to drag us down into that same imagined darkness.