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...

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...

Student Talks: on 1/11/2019 - Key Lesson: Next time we wonder how it's possible that someone doesn't like us, let us take a deep breath, and take a look at how we feel about them in that same moment. If we're honest, we'll see and understand two things at once: first, and perhaps most important: there are, in fact, parts of our nature that are not very likable....

Sometimes the very best thing we can do for those we love - or, for that matter, anyone we meet - is what we don't do to them!...