Topic: Stop Reliving Your Past and Realize Real Life (Classroom Talk 4/10/24)

Classroom Talk: 4/10/2024 - It's impossible to see, let alone walk the indefinable path of the presence moment until we realize we've been deceived into looking at virtually every moment of life through the 'I's of the past.

Topic: Take a Vacation from Yourself and Leave Your Troubles Behind You (Classroom Talk 1/31/24)

Classroom Talk: 1/31/2024 - The awareness of the whole of ourselves is the cancellation of time... for in this undivided state of consciousness no memory is needed to produce a sense of self; instead, we gaze upon ourselves as we are: already a complete Being.

Student Talks: 12/1/2023 - Key Lesson: Since it is impossible to be unhappy over what you don't have without first having been subjected to some form of unseen painful comparison, this means the true source of one's unhappiness isn't because of some passing condition, but rather is a creation of an unconscious nature -- punishing itself -- each time it negatively reacts to some imagined happiness lost.

Student Talks: 8/18/2023 - Key Lesson: Negative reactions -- in fact any form of painful resistance -- prevail only when we fail to remember it is -- at once -- our Divine right, and our work to transform, and transcend them.

Student Talks: 5/26/2023 - Key Lesson: Nothing in the universe can make you relive some painful moment from your past as long as you choose to live in the self-renewing awareness that no old dark thought has the power to define you, let alone drag you down.

Student Talks: 3/17/2023 - Key Lesson: Before we can hope to stop reliving any unwanted moment from our past, we must see that our experience of it is inseparable from how we ourselves have named it.

Classroom Talk: 12/29/2021 - Only as we dare to explore and understand the nature of fear -- including how it projects and protects its prison-like boundaries -- only then will we see its illusion fall apart, and begin to quietly disappear.

If it's true -- which it is -- that we become what we love, then let us learn to love unwanted momentsthat love might replace our fear of them; so that for this conscious exchange, we may become the living proof that perfect love casts out fear.

Classroom Talk: 11/25/2018 - Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of December 3, 2018. Part 1: Any path through life produced and paved by thought -- regardless how promising it may seem to be -- is, in fact, a dead end. Part 2: All memories are dreams. No dream is real; which means we will never realize our True Self until we stop identifying with what amounts to a memory-induced sense of self...

Classroom Talk: 11/18/2018 - Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of November 26, 2018. The perfect strength of the Divine is its infinite capacity to love: it is a living light that neither judges, nor hates weakness; (it is) a supernal force that never falters in its eternal work to reveal, and heal all who are willing to receive and enter it.