Classroom Talk: 9/27/2023 - You can't learn how to be; it's impossible. But you can see through the futility of the endless struggle to make yourself (feel) real. So, yes: it's hard to die to the hope that some time yet to come holds the key, but it does get easier the more you realize that whatever freedom you've imagined... doesn't exist without the fear that it doesn't.

Classroom Talk: 8/30/2023 - Part 1: Whatever is created in time... is a creation of time; and all creations -- in, and of time -- must pass when their time is up. Part 2: If we ever look closely, we would see that the fear we have of the future is always dressed as a beggar; but if we dared even a closer look, we'd see that not only does that beggar bear a striking resemblance to us...

Classroom Talk: 6/14/2023 - The higher purpose of suffering is to ground us in the existence and Presence of an altogether higher level of (our own) Being... where neither time, nor the pain it harbors holds a claim on us. Discovering there's a choice like this transforms any moment of feeling lost, confused, or resentful into the possibility of realizing it as the new and higher opportunity it represents.

Classroom Talk: 5/24/2023 - There can be no fearful thought of any time to come -- let alone the anxious struggle to control -- or otherwise avoid it -- without resisting a moment that has no existence outside of how we've unconsciously imagined it!

Classroom Talk: 10/26/2022 - Fear of the future is a negative memory: (it is) the ghost of some past painful experience disguised as "what may be."

Classroom Talk: 8/17/2022 - Unconscious identification with any pain from the past -- especially as it involves, or otherwise lends support to some negative perception of oneself -- is a slow-acting poison that, once ingested, soon darkens the soul and leads to its destruction.

Classroom Talk: 2/23/2022 - The past -- whatever its pain -- only exists in the present moment as a place of suffering due to an unconscious level of self that -- on its own -- first recalls that time and place of sorrow, and then resists the torment of its own conditioned memory.

Classroom Talk: 2/2/2022 - Any part of us that wants to give us a good reason why we are stuck somewhere in life is secretly a partner in that pain it first protests, and then seems to resist. To see the truth of this insight sets the stage for how to never feel stuck again.

Classroom Talk: 7/21/2021 - Part 1: Real life is not about what's coming; nor is real life about what has been: (it is) a timeless kingdom between the realm of "what was" and "will be." (it is) is a silent awareness of an eternal Now: a ceaseless rebirth inseparable from its own revelation... wherein "Real I" is (realized as) the guest of honor at the Great Wedding. Part 2: Those who aren't aware...

Classroom Talk: 9/30/2020 - The judgment of anyone or anything is never a conclusion to the conflicted condition in question, far from it: all forms of judging someone, or something amount to an unseen continuation of the relationship being judged.

Classroom Talk: 5/24/2020 - Struggling to escape the mind-breaking pain of any past regret is about as useful as hating ourselves for having fallen into a pit of quicksand... Where the more we fight to escape the hold it has over us, the deeper into it we sink.

Classroom Talk: 12/8/2019 - Part 1: Each time some desire-created 'I' dreams of a better tomorrow to come, it "sees" that future in the THOUGHTS it weaves to dress it up. But thought -- by nature -- is of the PAST, which means that ALL of our newly imagined tomorrows... are secretly a set of secondhand clothes. Part 2: What is any...