Classroom Talk: 10/13/2021 - Only consistent, persistent inner-work can lead us to the threshold of the "Truth that sets us free." And yet, the following is equally true: the unassailable liberation we seek will continue to elude us until every effort to know the truth of ourselves -- by thinking about ourselves -- has proven useless.

Topics Covered: All judgment is born out of fear. There is no judgment until someone is first afraid of something; Fear is the source of hatred and conflict between human beings; There is no form of self-destruction without there being fear behind it; As long as we remain spiritually asleep we are a machine that is complicit in the harm being done to the world...

Topics Covered: We don't want to go through what we will awaken in another human being if we were to do what we know needs to be done or said; The understanding I have of my negative reactions is given to me by the consciousness that lives in fear; Every reaction comes with an explanation for itself; What's true never needs to defend itself, and what's false never can defend itself...

Topics Covered: There is never a moment without disturbance; An unattended mind is a perpetual misery machine; The task isn't to not be disturbed, instead the task is to see the nature that doesn't want to be disturbed; We rarely suspect that psychological fear is a dream; It is awareness that we are after, not a result; There is a level of consciousness that is a world of imagination...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of June 4, 2018. Part 1: The illusion of Time is that it's a progression, but it is not; (it is) a higher dimension in and through which the will of creation continues to be revealed.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 19, 2018. You say your lines; I speak mine: A well-rehearsed play, Acted out in dreamtime. But when no one is the wiser, With the stage so dimly lit, None see that half of what is said... Is to no one there, Which suits the other half...just fine.

Topics covered: Anything that introduces you to your mechanical behavior is of the highest value; Learning to die spiritually before you die physically; Having a disability changes your values; Christ already lives in you; The world asks us to be many things, and the Divine asks us to be one; You will have given enough when you understand there's no "you" giving anything; Everything is...

Topics Covered: We're used to walking around feeling negative; The will of the herd; You must fully expire the experience of being negative before you can be free; Instinct acts before the human being knows that instinct instructs; Resistance is fascination; There are stages an aspirant goes through; Blessed separateness; The soul has the capacity to choose what it attends to; What is authenti...

Topics Covered: When it comes to taking sides on controversial issues, we want to be for something that sits above the two; You will never get over inferiority by seeking superiority; Attention is developed to allow you to remain in higher interior ground; Understanding (with a capital U) is Freedom; We suffer from spiritual shortsightedness; Thought is the instrument of a level of desire; A s...