Topic: 4 Ways to Develop and Deepen Your Relationship with the Divine (Classroom Talk 12/27/23)

Topics covered: If the Kingdom of Heaven is within, then there is no distance that has to be travelled and  time is not a factor in order to be in relationship with it; The need of the creation that is below can only be quenched by what is above it, which means there is an eternal relationship between above and below; What we call "Now" is where Heaven and earth meet, where what is below is acted upon by what is above, endlessly being made new.

Topics covered: Genuine prayer is connected to something you have genuinely seen about yourself. The wrong kind of prayer, the selfish kind, is connected to the avoidance of seeing something true about yourself; Ongoing psychological pain is always the product of having mistaken who you are. "Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind..."

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...

Topics Covered: Your world around you is determined by the way you perceive it within you. You are meant to be nourished from the inside-out, not the outside-in; You are meant to be a part of the ceaseless stream of life, always being made new; We have to understand that we carry around a pernicious false belief, which is that whatever just happened wasn't supposed to happen...

Topics Covered: The moments in our lives that have been the most valuable have been those that reveal something to us that we had never seen before, where we are suddenly transported into another order of awareness; Everything that we will ever need to know about the spiritual life is right in front of our eyes twenty-four hours per day. There is a level of life that we are a part of...

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Topic: Start Seeing Through "The Devil's" Favorite Deception (5/26/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Start Seeing Through "The Devil's" Favorite Deception (5/26/19 Classroom Talk)