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: 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.

Classroom Talk: 4/9/2023 - We can keep running through our day -- rushing to get to where the next thought tells us we need to be -- or we can work to let these painful impulses pass into, and through us; there is no other choice: either we're awake, and aware of the presence of this "demanding self" -- watchful, and willing to die to its dark will -- or we're caught in its draft, in a painful race going nowhere fast.

Classroom Talk: 1/15/2023 - Negative reactions have no awareness of themselves at all, which means not only are they blind, but neither have they any awareness of how they are complicit in the continuation of the pain inherent in the condition they protest.