Topic: Go Beyond Painful Limitation to Realize Fearless Being (6/30/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: In order to receive the truth that sets us free, we must begin to see the images that we have about ourselves that keep us in captivity; We get glimpses of something that reminds us that within us is an order of being that we're not the instrument of yet, but sense we could be; The more identified you are with something, the more asleep you are. Identification is captivity...

Classroom Talk: 6/30/2021 - Part 1: What is True always disturbs what is false. What is false never disturbs what is True. What is false is compelled to protect itself. What is True... is its own protection. Part 2: Who can possibly enlighten me as long as there's any fear of what I may see in the dark of myself?

There do come to us in our lives, for any one of innumerable possible reasons, certain conditions that challenge the very fabric of our being. Certainly, none of us would think to ourselves, "I wish upon myself these difficult circumstances," and yet the truth is it is through and because of these same unwanted moments that we are granted the opportunity to meet parts of ourselves...

Topics Covered: True teachings awaken the aspirant to what already lives in them; Freedom is an inclusive state, never an exclusive one; The one thing we almost never doubt is the certainty that we feel when we are negative; the certainty is that the cause of the negativity is somewhere outside of ourselves; Whatever we resist has to first be judged and found to be wrong...

Topic: How to Welcome Every Moment of Life (Even When It's One You Don't Want!) (6/7/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: How to Welcome Every Moment of Life (Even When It's One You Don't Want!) (6/7/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 6/7/2020 - Part 1: Our refusal to consciously meet any form of self-limitation only guarantees that it will be there waiting to greet us again -- and again -- until we discover the real reason behind its self-liberating revelation: we are not what we fear seeing about ourselves, nor are we the fear-filled level of self that would have...

Classroom Talk: 5/20/2020 - Whether to resist a challenging, unwanted moment, or to persist with our wish to transcend whatever limitation it reveals in us... that is the question! But to be clear, which of these two possibilities flowers into a greater power all depends on the one that we choose to nourish and grow.

Classroom Talk: 4/22/2020 - Truth, like sunlight, radiates out, pouring down ceaselessly from the "emptiness" of The Great Unknown into the fullness of how we experience it... as something temporarily "known." But, don't miss the point: without emptiness, nothing flows. We mustn't allow the fear of empty space to deceive us into...

Just as the sun rises each morning to dismiss the twelve hours of darkness that came before, so the appearance of spring signals a similar moment - only in a greater scale of time; for with the dawn of the spring, the many dark months of winter must loose their collective grip, giving way to a gently increased measure of light and warmth that stirs the earth from its slumber..."

Have you ever looked down at a sidewalk or parking lot and marveled at a single blade of grass that had somehow found the will and the way to break through the pavement and out into the fresh air and sunlight? When we think of a titanic struggle, we don't usually think of a little seed of grass buried in the darkness and fighting to get out in the light. And yet, even though we may...