Topics covered: The world's definition of peace is a state in which there is nothing interfering with what we want; One reason that we are drawn to nature is that everything in nature is in balance, everything is in its place as it should be; What you see as being out of place is not the problem. What is out of place is the level of consciousness itself that sees everything outside...

Classroom Talk: 2/16/2022 - The nature of what the Divine "notices" about us is completely different than the nature of what we do to get noticed.

Topics Covered: We are already a part of something whose power cannot be denied, even when it is refused; Never run from the fear of feeling powerless, and if you don't run you will be given, by grace, the power to see that everything you feared was a lie; The feeling of being powerless is in fact a doorway into a relationship with something that can never be made to feel...

Topics Covered: Be present to the parts of you trying to pull you down; Don't stop and pick the flowers... smell the flowers, but keep going; The depth of the illusion is nothing to the light that reveals it; There is no such thing as compulsive pleasure; The very action of thought separates us from what it wants to acquire; Without thought everything is clear; Thought is the disturbance and not...

Topics Covered: If you are against something you cannot change; The opposites are secretly complimentary; You can't win freedom, you can only be free; You can't judge without resistance; Avoidance is the continuation of the consciousness that resists; We are not our thoughts and feelings; No one is free who worships an image or an icon; All understanding is in scale...

Classroom Talk: 10/27/2019 - Any form of identification with the insanity of this world -- regardless the "noble" name we may come up with as the reason for it -- serves to instantly negate our highest possibilities. And this makes us, in turn, complicit in the creation of our own limitations, so that we live in a kind of prison we help...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 22, 2018. We must persist in finding out that we don't know what we think we do... until the presence of any "knower" within us is seen as being one and the same as the cause of all our useless suffering.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 1, 2018. One way of knowing that you have found your true purpose in life is that you no longer wish to be in any place other than right where you are.

Topics covered: Something in me wants to keep me in fear and humiliation; Why do I feel more negative during the holidays; Feeling like a fake; Resisting unwanted moments; How do I take the high road and forgive someone who hurt me; I want to help my family cope with the death of a loved one...