Topics covered: Real peace is beyond imagination because it transcends the self that imagines it; It is a person's ideas about the nature of peace that produce the conditions that are subsequently blamed for taking that imagined peace away; "The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man." -- William Blake

Topics covered: The kind of peace that can so easily be turned into conflict is not genuine peace; When it comes to our spiritual life, there is nothing more important than "location, location, location," which is the place where we invest our attention, time and energy; There is a psychological location within us where there is perfect peace. That location of perfect peace will never be found in the outer world.

Topics Covered: Even with all of our rushing and doing and struggling, nothing real changes; There is always a feeling in a divided consciousness that there is a distance that must be spanned before it can be at ease; In reality there is no distance between you and the "I Am" that always is, between you and peace, between you and what is perfect; A part of us creates the idea that...

Topics Covered: Understood properly, the momentary awareness of any shortfall in our character is really a Divine intervention; where, by a Light that "dwells in a darkness that knows it not" we are given a glimpse of a truth that cannot be known otherwise. The acceptance of this intervention initiates a holy transformation, and the realization of our liberation...

Topics Covered: The root of the loss of freedom is in the consciousness that arrogantly tries to create freedom according to its idea of what freedom is; We rush through life to get to where and what we already are, which is already whole; Negative reactions are the dark effect of misunderstanding who we are; We're never where we are, doing what we're doing because we are always...

Topics Covered: The kind of change we are seeking always starts with a feeling whose origin is a mystery. The change does not begin nor come about through thinking; The healing power of what is true requires a surrender to what it is showing you about yourself; Our present way of living involves investing our happiness and dreams in the idea of a better tomorrow, so that we don't live now...

Student Talks: 2/5/2021 - Key Lesson: The more we will deliberately work to take time out of our day to remember -- and embrace -- what we know is Timeless and True, the more aware we will become of an Indwelling Light whose perfect grace reveals the means and the way to be made new... and new again.

Topics Covered: We presently spend too much time in worldly pursuits because we don't know that there is another world that sits above this present level of consciousness; Real peace cannot be interrupted. Real peace looks for nothing and wants for nothing; Most of our attention is dedicated to a "time to come" in which there will be a "me" that will find peace and be free...

Topics Covered: We are dependent upon any condition that we think will grant us independence. That is a recipe for fear; True independence can be found within the very feeling of impermanence that a part of us fears; Our longing for freedom belongs to another order of consciousness that is already free. To long for something is to want to close the distance between ourselves...

Topics Covered: Because most people don't really understand the nature of time, they also don't know anything about timelessness; As a result of imagining wholeness in a time to come, we resist everything in life that seems to get in the way of that imagined wholeness; When we become identified with anything, we are at that point stalked and threatened by psychological time...

Student Talks: 10/30/2020 - Key Lesson: The strength of any painful resentment we feel toward others has nothing to do with any troubling character we may judge in them; rather (it is) born of an unseen weakness in us that believes others have the power to either give -- or take -- something from us that we need to be at peace with ourselves.

Topics Covered: No worldly pursuit can bring an end to the sense of being incomplete; We believe that unwanted moments should be avoided at all costs. It is a false belief because meeting unwanted moments reveals to us something that we brought into the moment that could not have exposed in any other way; A false belief is that we are only as valuable as others think we are...