Impressions

Why do we limit the impression we have of any given moment? We never limit an impression when we're sitting in front of a nice plate of food. Can't get enough of that! We never limit the impression of the idea of some beautiful place to go where we're going to have a marvelous time. There's no limitation to the impression produced by imagination. We want it with every bit of our being!

We are born hungry. We not only require food that we take in with our mouths, but we all have an innate need to take in impressions -- to take in the nourishment that stimulates our mind, that moves our heart, and that works to give us a sense of satisfaction in life. When we're young, we have a natural appetite for life, and we are educated by going out and engaging in the world...

It feels like I have been a seeker forever, but have not yet found the enlightenment I have been seeking. Is enlightenment something that happens, or is it just an understanding?

We are a peculiar race of beings. On one hand, each of us professes to be concerned with growing and self-developing while, on the other hand, none of us ever wants to be wrong. This is a paralyzing contradiction. If we are always right, or at least afraid of being wrong, what have we to learn? Couched in our hidden attitude is that we already know everything. This is a serious problem if we a...

Student Talks: 07/11/2025 - The truth is, it’s not the moment that’s unfolding before your eyes — nor even your experience of it. Rather, it is you — your true Self — unfolding in the ceaseless revelation of a Timeless Life, inseparable from the Divine Light that serves to reveal it.

Student Talks: 04/04/2025 - No one wins freedom who hasn't first realized the invisible relationship between resistance and revelation, and how one cannot appear without the other; wherein to see that they secretly serve one another, is to put both in your service.

Student Talks: 3/22/2024 - Key Lesson: Once we learn what it means to see ourselves, to accept every impression as the herald of the new self-knowledge that it brings, then we will not only understand what it means to welcome each such revelation - whether wanted, or not - but to receive, with grace, whatever we are given to see as being true about ourselves.

Student Talks: 6/9/2023 - Key Lesson: Part 1: We cannot know the depth and breadth of our highest, heavenly possibilities as long as we fear to explore, realize, and release all that keeps us bound to this earth. Part 2: Our unconscious conditioning goes before us every moment, acting as the unseen judge, jury, and "executioner" of each, and every moment of our life.

Student Talks: 3/3/2023 - Key Lesson: Thought is a stoppage; it is an impediment in the celestial circulation of new impressions created to refresh the consciousness in which they appear.

Student Talks: 9/30/2022 - Key Lesson: Into what do we gaze when looking through a telescope or microscope... other than into the yet discovered depths of our own consciousness? For whatever world we explore -- inwardly or outwardly -- what is it we uncover there... other than its reflection within us, along with a corresponding knowledge of it; and, if true, where does this new...

Student Talks: 1/28/2022 - Key Lesson: Our true purpose in life has nothing whatsoever to do with anything that can be imagined, let alone anxiously pursued.