Metanoia

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...

Student Talks: 05/08/2026 - Distractions never show themselves as empty sea-shells when the promise of their shape first catches the wandering eye. Perhaps that’s why – as we stoop down, and stop to pocket yet one more weathered prize – we never really notice – let alone step into – the vast sea that has cast them onto shore.

Student Talks: 04/17/2026 - Passing time reveals the true nature of thought to be naught but grains of sand, endlessly spilling themselves out of--and back into--the nothingness from out of which they have come.

Topics covered:  We are always trying to recapture a peace that we think we have lost. But the whole idea of restoring a peace that you have lost is an illusion; The mind that believes it has lost its peace imagines a peaceful time to come, which it never reaches; The negative reaction that other people bring up in you is YOUR limitation, not the limitation of the other person.

Student Talks: 11/15/2024 - Key Lesson: He alone is self-realized, of whom it may be said: for him, it is enough to be just what he is, as he is; nothing more or less is either needed, or required.

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...

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.