Imagination

Classroom Talk: 02/22/2026 -I will be with you until the end of time, but if you look for me in (passing) time, you will not find me there.

Classroom Talk: 8/10/2025 - No one wants to be touched by the hand of suffering, so millions spend billions trying to escape what they see as something "raining on their parade." And yet, their fear is as misplaced as the misunderstanding that creates it, and here's why: into every life must come some rain, for without it... what else can a heart become other than a desert that never blooms?

Classroom Talk: 8/3/2025 - Given the values of the world in which we live today, it's no small wonder that the first of the beatitudes -- "Blessed are the poor in spirit" -- more often than not proves itself a painful paradox regarding the notion of real wealth; for the truth is -- as Christ taught -- that the less we take ourselves to be, the more we're given to discover all that we are, and forever will be.

Classroom Talk: 06/01/2025 - Show me the one who governs his or her own thoughts and feelings, and I will show you someone who lives in a world unclouded by worry and fear.

Classroom Talk: 12/01/2024 - Take Your Rightful Place in the Divine Revelation of Life

Classroom Talk: 9/1/2024 - As surely as planting a lemon seed will grow a tree full of lemons, so is the following true: any solution that begins with resisting (the pain of) some unwanted experience will not only prove itself fruitless, but always give birth to more of the same!

Classroom Talk: 6/21/2024 - Useless resistance feeds useless suffering, even as useless suffering feeds useless resistance; but it is we who -- in our ignorance of this unseen relationship -- are consumed in the endless service of an unconscious nature that cares for nothing other than its own continuity.

Classroom Talk: 8/20/2023 - Having no real direction of its own in this life... a wandering mind is incapable of recognizing the difference between finding the promise of (another) false purpose to live for, and the pit into which it falls... as it's tempted to reach for the treasure it imagines it has found there.

Classroom Talk: 6/18/2023 - The real joy of a quiet mind is the realization of just how soul-stirring real life can be without having to identify with anything moving into and through it.

Classroom Talk: 6/12/2022 - It's the rare dog, indeed, that doesn't dream about -- and then chase after -- a "bone."

Classroom Talk: 4/3/2022 - 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.

Classroom Talk: 5/2/2021 - You can't heal the pain of the past by talking to yourself about it... any more than you can collect spilled milk, and coax it back into the bottle.