Identification

Topics covered: The parable of the Prodigal Son is a story about our never-ending relationship with the Divine Creator. There is no end to that journey; We are not moving through time and events. Time and events are moving through us, and it all takes place first of all within consciousness. Events do not unfold outside of you; The Kingdom of Heaven is not found outside of you...

Topic: The Wisdom You Need to Walk Away from Painful Negative Reactions (Classroom Talk 10/19/22)

Student Talks: 10/21/2022 - Key Lesson: We are never judged for whatever may be our present degree of spiritual blindness. Only when we turn a blind eye to a truth Life asks us to see about ourselves do we unknowingly judge ourselves, and where the suffering that follows is the result of having looked away.

Topics covered: There is no better use of your time than to invest it in self-study; Peace is not something that you can buy, possess or pursue. Peace is a relationship with something that already exists that has no fear in it; Nothing that you can imagine can set you free. You are owned by the thing you imagine will set you free.

Classroom Talk: 10/19/2022 - Until we realize some level of separation from our unconscious reactions to life, our sense of self remains little more than a legion of momentarily re-animated identities... with each one appearing -- and then disappearing -- as helpless to remain in place as is a shadow created by the sunrise to hold its ground when the sun sets.

Topics covered: If everything you can imagine could provide the contentment you seek, then you would be content by now; When you go looking for something outside of you, you never find what you're looking for, because what you're really looking for is already within you; The human body is a seed, and its development is not dissimilar from that of an acorn. Both have built-in to them a pattern and form and a destiny.

Topic: Dare to Take the First Step Toward Fearless Living (Classroom Talk 7/27/22)

Topic: This Shocking Secret Frees You from the Prison of Painful Resistance (Classroom Talk 7/20/22)

Topics covered: The vast majority of what we think about is driven by fear, only we don't notice it because we believe it to be the normal way to live; How many things do you not see because of fear? Because you are thinking about yourself? Thinking about yourself and fear go hand-in-hand; Fear drives all forms of self-judgment and judgment of others; Ask yourself: If I know that...

Classroom Talk: 7/27/2022 - Real freedom has no beginning or end, while fear can't exist without the beginning of something that will -- and must, under law -- come to an end.

Classroom Talk: 7/20/2022 - Part 1: There can be no painful resistance to any moment of life that isn't born of some unseen form of insistence that it unfold only as we've imagined it should. Part 2: While it is possible to have thousands of different kinds of life experiences, there can be no possible change in the way we experience our life... that doesn't begin with transforming...

Topics covered: There is no more important time for you to do your spiritual work than when you least want to do it; The whole of this work is being willing to remember, when you don't want to remember it, that you had set an intention to be a certain type of being now and not later; Spiritual work begins when the question dawns on you: Why are there so many things that can so easily make me negative?