Before we can experience the truth of a higher state of consciousness, before we can stand on the ground of ourselves that is the secret stuff of Reality, we are asked to quietly be who and what we are in the Now. To do this we must learn to let go of those parts of our present nature that are never quite pleased with what is. After all, doesn't it seem that we are always in some sort...

Have you ever noticed that the more negative you get, the more difficult everything about your life becomes, including being able to do the simplest things? Even your intention to work spiritually in some way -- to develop and transcend yourself -- now sits in the hands of a very negative self, a dense level of self that sees nothing but darkness ahead of it.

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...

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..."

Topic: Open Your Eyes and See Beyond the Fearful Self (Classroom Talk 9/6/23)

Topics covered: Demands that you make on other people and on the world, that end up leading to your own misery, cannot possibly be your own; Demands that you believe originated with you were acquired by the divided consciousness that habitually looks outside of itself in order to find something that will complete it; "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light...

Classroom Talk: 9/6/2023 - To resist, and then avoid the unwanted appearance of any limitation in our life is the failure that we fear in that same moment. There is no other failure than to live in fear, and it exists only in the (self-inflicted) isolation of unconsciously identifying with any form of negative imagination.

Topic: See Through Self-Limiting Beliefs and Bring an End to Useless Suffering (Classroom Talk 7/12/23)

Topics covered: How much time and effort has humanity spent trying to figure out how to be free of fear and suffering? How is humanity doing?; The source of psychological pain will never be resolved through belief in a time to come. Instead, genuine resolution is found by seeing through the whole idea that it is necessary to have a belief.

Classroom Talk: 7/12/2023 - Only in our awareness of a weakness -- by our ability to sense the presence of any negative, or otherwise self-denigrating thought or feeling -- is found the strength we need to die to this lower level of self that, otherwise... lives to ensure that we accept its limitations as being our own.

Topic: Wade Into Real Life and Leave Fear Behind You (Classroom Talk 4/5/23)