Topics covered: Everything we encounter is intended for the education of the soul. Both wanted and unwanted moments; Any question that you ask is only as valid as it is sincere; You cannot find peace in a future to come because the image of the future comes with the fear that something in life will interfere with the image; There is no such thing as psychological fear without negative imagination...

Topics covered: Everything that happens to you is meant to be a lesson learned; What you need to be rescued from is yourself; Instead of using energy to build something for oneself, the spiritual aspirant instead uses that energy to discover more about him or herself; Your experience of life is a direct reflection of your consciousness; You can't run from suffering and ever understand its real source...

Classroom Talk: 5/17/2023 - The more we look for ways to protect ourselves from fear, the greater grows our inability to see its increasing authority over our heart, mind, and soul.

Classroom Talk: 11/9/2022 - No one would agree to the feeling of being pulled apart by anxious thoughts and feelings, that is to say... unless he was first deceived into believing that this kind of pain is a required payment for anyone who hopes to pull their life back together... again!

Classroom Talk: 10/19/2022 - Until we realize some level of separation from our unconscious reactions to life, our sense of self remains little more than a legion of momentarily re-animated identities... with each one appearing -- and then disappearing -- as helpless to remain in place as is a shadow created by the sunrise to hold its ground when the sun sets.

Classroom Talk: 9/14/2022 - Freedom cannot be found in the east, or to the west; it doesn't wait somewhere north or south of those who go there in search of it. It's neither here, nor there; freedom is found wherever the willing soul agrees to meet and confront a fear.

Classroom Talk: 4/6/2022 - The ability to explain our fears to ourselves -- all the "valid" reasons we have for feeling anxious about "tomorrow" -- is not wisdom. Wisdom is the Light by which we see the following truth: there is no experience of psychological fear that doesn't begin without first having imagined a threat to some equally imagined sense of security.

Classroom Talk: 2/9/2022 - Seen properly, only self-liberation is possible; this highest form of freedom begins with being completely honest in all of our relationships, but especially as concerns the one we have with ourselves.

Classroom Talk: 8/11/2021 - Part 1: Until we can be aware of -- present to -- the fact that the Light of the Divine never leaves us -- even should we find ourselves full of darkness -- we can never really understand the appearance and the purpose of any fearful negative state, let alone how it's possible to die to it... and to the "fearful self," as well. Part 2: There is no possibility of freeing...

Topic: How to Recognize and Release Yourself from the Circle of Self-Induced Suffering (4/5/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 4/5/2020 - Psychologically speaking, the pain & bane of our life is not just mistaking today's troubling event as proof of tomorrow's pain, but actually ensuring that it will be... by unconsciously resisting what is nothing more than a dark image generated by (our own) negative imagination.

Classroom Talk: 7/30/2023 - Part 1: Faith flowers into Love; Love is the fulfillment of faith. Part 2: To live with the perpetual fear you may "do the wrong thing"... is to be doing the wrong thing that you fear. Part 3: Whatever may be the welcome appearance of some familiar path promising to lead you away from a moment in life that you fear, be not mistaken: it is, by any other name, the path of fear.