Presence

Student Talks: 04/24/2026 - Whatever it may be within us that fears death…is itself the thing that must die.

Student Talks: 01/02/2026 - We do not become prisoners because we fail to escape some painful pattern. We become prisoners because we imagine there is a “someone” inside the pattern who must escape it. In truth, the sense of self that feels trapped is a creation of an unconscious nature struggling to escape the experience of itself. Once realized that the suffering inherent in this conflict is not yours…it no longer needs to be transcended; it's released without effort because it simply has no one left to belong to.

Student Talks: 9/26/2025 - We have but a single thing to do to satisfy the Soul and, in turn, fulfill her role in the Greater Plan of Creation. Our one True Task in Life is... to complete the moment as we are given to it. This is the first agreement; and in our obedience (to it) is found not only our freedom... but also the assurance of knowing that whatever sacrifice we must make to that greater end ensures all that follows is always in the best interest of everyone, and everything around us.

Student Talks: 8/22/2025 - The perfection of each and every moment is realized by seeing each and every moment perfectly. 

Student Talks: 07/18/2025 - If we’re still talking to ourselves about some past, painful, unwanted moment—justifying, revisiting, or analyzing it—we can be sure the invisible, Divine purpose of that moment was not fulfilled. And this insight, for those with “eyes to see,” reveals a deeper truth: if the lesson remains unrealized, then so does our reason for having incarnated the forces responsible for its revelation. Within this truth lies a still greater one, for those who would be free: under celestial law, such moments must return—either to be repeated, or – in our acceptance of a Divine will that seeks to strengthen our relationship with it – to serve as the ground of spiritual renewal.

One of the hardest things to understand about the true spiritual path, and the struggles along the Way, is that the inner struggle we fear losing has already been won for us... if we will only (remember to) take our rightful place in the midst of that engagement...

Student Talks: 4/22/2022 - Key Lesson: There is a very strange feature as concerns most human beings: we would rather feel anxious thinking about unwanted moments over which we have no power, than to practice placing our attention in the fact of that moment... where no thought is needed to build a bridge between ourselves, and a timeless peace whose Presence all of us seek.

Student Talks: 1/28/2022 - Key Lesson: Our true purpose in life has nothing whatsoever to do with anything that can be imagined, let alone anxiously pursued.

Student Talks: 10/23/2020 - Key Lesson: Part 1: We cannot "make" things whole any more than the moon makes itself full by its own light. Rather our work is to serve as a witness to life's ceaseless, concurrent appearance of fullness and emptiness and, by so doing, to unite (within us) the awareness of Timeless consciousness...

Student Talks: 7/5/2019 - Key Lesson: The sooner we realize the wisdom of refusing to excuse our negative states... the sooner will all dark thoughts and feelings excuse themselves from our life.