Classroom Talk: 9/13/2023 - Trying to change any unwanted condition without first awakening to, and then realizing the nature of the consciousness responsible for creating it... is like blaming a mirror for what you don't like seeing (in it).

Classroom Talk: 8/3/2022 - Our need to change, to be made new, is constant; however, so is our resistance to change. The former is inseparable from the freedom it heralds, while the latter ensures the continuation of patterns that imprison the soul. Choose the latter, and living becomes dying, but choose the former and see how dying leads to Life.

Classroom Talk: 3/17/2021 - Fearful, negative reactions see only what they need to see in order to run away with our life. But, we have another set of eyes that - once opened - can see right through these painful shadows of unwanted moments trapped in the past. Only sometimes, as when we first walk into a dark room, there are times...

Classroom Talk: 5/31/2020 - Part 1: Most of us struggle under a pervasive and ultimately punishing belief that we must do something to enlarge and enhance the world in which we live... When what we really need to do is to awaken from the pain of this illusion by realizing this self-liberating Truth: it's impossible for us to have more...

Classroom Talk: 2/23/2020 - The more (we) mistakenly open a door to any negative reaction that comes knock-knock-knocking there, the more it will come back around - bringing "relatives" with it - until there's neither place nor peace left in our Home that we can call our own.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of April 23, 2018. If attending to, and then surrendering oneself to the will of the Divine fulfills the highest possible purpose of one's real life -- and one works inwardly, as faithfully as one can to live this understanding -- then slowly, but surely appears a new kind of freedom...

Classroom Talk: 5/15/2022 - The wind that fills the sails of a ship is born of a coming storm... as is each tempest the herald of the calm waters that follow its wrath. In this knowledge is found the key to conscious detachment, the power of an impersonal life.

Classroom Talk: 4/1/2020 - What power has any painful moment over us save for having become unconsciously identified with our own negative reaction to it. Seen properly, this means the event we blame for our suffering is like looking in a mirror... and blaming the reflection for whatever we don’t want to see in it!

Classroom Talk: 5/22/2019 The sure way to guarantee that your suffering goes on unabated is to keep talking to yourself about it!