Topics covered: Between awakening and rebirth there has to be a death. Nothing is born anew that doesn't die to what it was before; Our lives are presently the experience of our own creation; Until we are aware of what dwells in the dark of ourselves, we are subject to whatever that nature does in the absence of that awareness; Imagined security requires an imagined self to keep it in place...

Topics covered: If you want to have the ending you are looking for, you are going to need a new beginning; Today's humanity continues to write a story for itself that it doesn't like, always hoping that the next chapter will finally satisfy; Understanding is simple. The ultimate understanding is that you think you have to hurt yourself, but you don't... you think you have to be afraid, but you don't.

Topic: Walk Away from Anxious Thoughts and Feelings Before They Work You Over! (Classroom Talk 5/24/23)

Topics covered: We live in a sea of sensations, which makes the dream we are in seem real; Each worried thought and feeling comes with a temptation to find consolation through what those thoughts and feelings suggest; The seeming motive for anticipating a moment to come is to get through that moment without something bad happening; The only way that you can look beyond the...

Classroom Talk: 5/24/2023 - There can be no fearful thought of any time to come -- let alone the anxious struggle to control -- or otherwise avoid it -- without resisting a moment that has no existence outside of how we've unconsciously imagined it!

Topic: The Truth that Sets Us Free is Self-Unity (Classroom Talk 10/5/22)

Topics covered: When you have heard the truth, you are forever in debt to it. What has been seen cannot be unseen; Heavy spirits, worried and anxious people, or ambitious people who refuse to see themselves cannot find freedom; Why would you give your attention to something that gives you an experience that you don't want?; Most of what you experience is produced by your...

Classroom Talk: 10/5/2022 - What man or woman, by running away from some disturbance -- be it fear, worry, or sorrow -- can hope to transform, let alone transcend their pain? The solution to suffering is found within it, much in the same way as is the fragrance of a rose protected by thorns.

Student Talks: 6/17/2022 - Key Lesson: It's the rare dog, indeed, that doesn't dream about -- and then chase after -- a "bone."

Topics covered: Not wanting to see something that is right in front of you is willful ignorance. You have to be willing to see the truth that you don't want to see; There is no such thing as a painful want that is natural; The constant state of "I want" goes before you to make the straight places crooked; When you meet a moment that you don't want, you immediately know what you DO want in...

Student Talks: 4/8/2022 - Key Lesson: Practicing the Presence -- working to remember the truth of yourself -- doesn't necessarily change the kind of events that come to you; that's not how it works. But, what your inner work does change is for whom -- upon what 'I' -- will these events fall and, accordingly, the purpose they serve.

Topics covered: Reality, inner and outer, is a lot bigger than our thoughts about it; We have an innate longing to belong to something greater than ourselves; Thought is the limitation, not the way to transcend limitation. Identification with thought stops exploration and discovery; The greater our resistance to any unwanted moment, the bigger that moment seems...