Topic: The New Self-Knowledge You Need to Rise Above Painful Patterns (12/29/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: The New Self-Knowledge You Need to Rise Above Painful Patterns (12/29/19 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 12/29/2019 - Every signpost that seems to point the way to the Holiness we seek must be seen for being the illusion that it is...For there exists no direction in passing time, let alone a doorway seen as outside of us that opens into the Living Now.

Student Talks: 11/8/2019 - Key Lesson: Pretending -- to yourself, or around others -- that "all is well" is the unseen hell of the false self. On the other hand, the realization that all unfolds -- moment to moment -- in the only way that it can is not only the first step in awakening from this lower level of consciousness...

Classroom Talk: 6/30/2019 - Part 1: (Your) True Self is a "match made in Heaven," even as (the) false self dwells in a kind of "hell" born of its ceaseless conflict with any moment that fails to match what it imagines it must have... in order to ensure its equally imagined life remains in place. Part 2: When we finally understand that we cannot...

Classroom Talk: 6/9/2019 - Part 1: All forms of useless struggle originate from the same unseen source: misunderstanding the true purpose of any moment in life over which you suffer -- uselessly -- in the vain attempt to change it. Part 2: It's impossible to change "what is" but... you can use the pain born of resisting any unwanted moment to realize...

Classroom Talk: 5/19/2019 - Being able to realize, and then release one's resistance to any unwanted moment does more than just help change the "dark tide" of that event; it reveals that within us already dwell the untroubled "waters" of a celestial harbor: the timeless shelter of an eternal Self that becomes the same as our own...

Student Talks: 5/8/2019 - Key Lesson: When it comes to being free, there is no such thing as the "next best thing." Therefore, it is the far wiser soul that agrees to "die" to her imagined freedom, than it is to live as a fool who realizes, too late, that he traded his soul for a servitude made comfortable by compromise.

Topic: The World I See Isn't Outside of Me (2/17/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Free Yourself from the Ache of All Unconscious "Fake News" (2/10/19 Classroom Talk)

No fact is frightening unless it runs into conflict with what we want.When this happens, the fear is not in the event -- but in us -- who havedecided that in order to feel secure, life must jump through our hoop. So,the fear we feel is in our hoop, not the fact that life may have jumpedunexpectedly.