Self-observation is the key to a higher order of awareness; it is how we learn to become inwardly vigilant to our own thoughts and feelings, even as they pass through us. When we can observe ourselves in this new way, our higher nature naturally prevails over any troubling thoughts or feelings that want to drag us down into their lower world...

Question: In this time of economic downturn, is there anything to say to those of us who have experienced losing a job or a home? I don't know what to say to my friends and coworkers who are suffering. It's easy to tell them that the universe will provide and that something better will come along when I'm not the one in their position. Any words of wisdom would be appreciated.

Self-observation is the key to a higher order of awareness; it is how we learn to become inwardly vigilant to our own thoughts and feelings, even as they pass through us. When we can observe ourselves in this new way, our higher nature naturally prevails over any troubling thoughts or feelings that want to drag us down into their lower world...

Classroom Talk: 12/8/2021 - Truthful ideas never need to be validated by others; they neither fear close scrutiny, nor avoid the light of any moment that calls for it. False ideas can never stand alone; they tremble whenever life questions their intelligence, mistaking the sudden onset of painful resistance as proof of their strength.

Classroom Talk: 4/14/2021 - Hidden within the opposing forces is a Light -- a quiet Intelligence -- that cannot be induced to act against itself. Awakening to... and becoming aware of this Wisdom releases one from the bondage born of struggling to be, or not to be. Understood properly, all such opposing forces contain and reveal their own gateway...

Topic: How to Transform Discouragement into the Truth that Sets You Free (9/1/19 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 8/21/2019 - We cannot rise above the suffering born of "running into" unwanted moments without realizing the unwitting nature responsible for creating this kind of pain: (it is) the dark and hopeless work of a lower level of "self" that has nowhere else to look -- let alone to find itself -- other than in the "waters" of passing...

Classroom Talk: 4/23/2023 - Once we realize that living within the limits of the known is the same as the limitation of our spiritual possibilities, there is no recourse other than to depart the safety of all that we have been... in favor of discovering all that we're created to be.

Classroom Talk: 12/6/2020 - Identifying with some negative reaction to the appearance of any undesirable character revealed within us... amounts to a kind of self-induced exile from the Kingdom of Heaven by reason of self-ignorance.

Classroom Talk: 4/10/2020 - Part 1: Love is an endless journey nestled into a self-perfecting plan that can't be "seen," only lived; its never-ending path unfolds within a timeless Kingdom wherein everyone -- and everything -- we meet along the way is our traveling partner. Part 2: The vast majority of humanity views the idea of spiritual rebirth...