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...

Classroom Talk: 10/18/2023 - Any action we take initiated by resisting some unwanted moment ensures the continuation of an unconscious, deeply conflicted nature so asleep to itself that it can't tell the difference between struggling to escape a prison, and not walking into one in the first place.

Classroom Talk: 1/4/2023 - There is no such thing as a compulsive pleasure, let alone a contented "slave" that lives under its lash; and yet billions of human beings serve some form of addiction, willing to turn a blind eye to how much they suffer for the sake of a pleasure they cannot keep, a security that cannot be possessed.

Topic: Rise Above the Unconscious Source of Any Painful Addiction (11/10/19 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 11/10/2019 - For too long we've believed that whatever limitation we meet in ourselves -- in some unwanted moment -- would not exist were it not for that same unwanted moment in which we meet it. It's just not true. The real limitation is how instantly identified we become with a fearful reaction "telling" us that we...

Topics Covered: Relationship between mother and child; What did you have to do with your own birth?; We meet people from a limited understanding of ourselves; Whatever is buried in you is food for your development; Judgement is based on resistance to an instantaneous reaction of a pain we don't know what to do with; Deep and hidden pain carried over from childhood