Topics covered: Human beings don't understand what or who they are, and, for having failed to understand the purpose of their existence, they have created one for themselves; What is the main misunderstanding about the purpose of existence? That I am owed a living; We are takers - I want, I will, I'll do, I'll get - all of which must come after "I'll be."

Classroom Talk: 11/12/2023 - Anytime we struggle in the dark of ourselves -- trying to change our nature -- our efforts are misdirected; our real work is to learn to see by the light that dwells in that darkness, and to know the truth of ourselves, as (it is) revealed.

Classroom Talk: 6/25/2023 - Part 1: Enlightenment is instantaneous, but keeping the lights on is another story altogether! Part 2: Intention is the front runner of a race yet to be run, a new order of will yet to be tested, but waiting to be realized.

Classroom Talk: 6/27/2021 - Contemplation is sustained attention on a question the heart holds in its keeping, knowing, full well, that the mind -- of itself -- cannot answer. This form of sustained conscious inquiry is the ground of true meditation: it is creation aware of itself.

Classroom Talk: 8/28/2020 - Just as the sun consumes her own substance as fuel, transforming matter into life-giving light and heat, so too are we created to consume ourselves; to transform the base aspects of a separate self - the many conflicting characters inherent in our divided consciousness - into a single, higher form of...

Meditation Talk: 12/27/2019 - Meditation is the interior art of quietly watching your whole life unfold, moment-to-moment, for "better or for worse"... Without trying to change, explain, or otherwise control whatever you see.

Meditation Talk: 11/22/2019 - Any moment we can remember to break out of habitual thought -- and simply know that we exist -- is the same as realizing a new and higher level of consciousness that thought will never know, let alone share in a measure of its perfect peace.

Meditation Talk: 10/25/2019 - Be here. Be still. Quietly remember the Divine presence that dwells within you... and you will know -- without taking thought -- the following truth that sets you free: Even as all around you everything changes, your True Self is unchanging. Fearlessness follows this discovery in much the same way as....

Meditation Talk: 9/27/2019 - The realization of a need for the Divine in our life is the beginning of Its supernal entrance into us; and, to be clear, this touch is always His initiating action. In other words: what we take as being our need to know His Life is really His invitation to do so... announcing itself as (an) emptiness in the heart that...

Meditation Talk: 8/30/2019 - Mind is not intellect itself, nor is (our) Heart the seat of emotion alone; real mind is the marriage of a higher order of intellect and heart: wherein feeling is wisdom -- and wisdom is, in turn, feeling. These seemingly different parts (of us) were never intended to be separate... as they now are for the majority of humanity...