Topics Covered: The fear of reprisal is a form of regret before the event takes place; You don't have to prepare a way for yourself, the way is already prepared; The lower consciousness is a memorabilia collector; Find the pain itself, don't follow the reason given for it; Watching the sleeping consciousness try to tempt you; Pain always appears with the reason for it...

Meditation Talk: 1/31/2020 - All things... be they character or creature -- animate or not -- speak to you from within yourself. The wildflower, the wind, the tumbling leaf and the dead branch that catches it: all have voices, and all may be heard. Learn to listen and you'll hear the Eternal as the sound of yourself.

Classroom Talk: 7/24/2019 Part 1: In this world, in time, perfection is the ceaseless integration and transcendence of the imperfection inherent in all things created. Temptation is the futile -- and always painful -- attempt to prove that this perfection can be known before it's revealed. Part 2: Every form of verbalizing -- said aloud, or taken in thought...

There is no "self" without relationship. In reality, the observer and the observed do not exist apart from one another. However, in the absence of higher awareness, the lower level of self believes that it is separate from what it sees as being outside of itself. This is the source of suffering. The gift of being able to see that the observer is the observed is the reconciliation and the end...

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.