Helping each other is waking up. The illusion is that we are all separate, individual people. As I'm awakened in myself to myself, I see the consciousness that is acting within me and know that I can't go along with it. And if I can't enable it in myself, I can't enable it in others either. Through your growing self-awareness you start to see what serves you and what doesn't.

Topics covered: The purpose of a parable is to stir a mental, emotional, and physical impression; As in the parable of the talents, each person is given talents for the purpose of making the most of what they are given to be. To be the best you can be means to take what you have been given and transform it and increase it in the way only you can do...

Spiritually speaking, all relationships serve one purpose: self-knowledge. And self-knowledge, in turn, serves a single purpose: discovering the truth of oneself: an inner awakening that serves still a higher purpose: rebirth...the reconciliation, and fulfillment of all relationships.

Topic: The Consequence of Living Outside the Law (Classroom Talk 3/6/24)

Topic: How to Awaken and Practice Immaculate Compassion (Classroom Talk 1/25/23)

Topics covered: All true spiritual teachings have a singular purpose, and that is to call human beings into another world that already exists within them; An unconscious nature within us believes that it is superior to everything that it judges; The love that lifts a person above the loveless world of thought has an infinite capacity to recognize perfect similarity...

Classroom Talk: 1/25/2023 - Nothing makes us more common and unkind -- more like everyone else we judge -- than identifying with familiar painful negative reactions that seem to prove we're somehow different, superior to those whose character we hold in contempt.

Topics Covered:To "love thy neighbor as thyself" is impossible until we are conscious of ourselves; You cannot really love another human being and want something from them at the same time; The two principles of "love thy neighbor as thyself" and "the observer is the observed" are very closely related to each other, if not the same thing; No one that we know is the same person...