We are born hungry. We not only require food that we take in with our mouths, but we all have an innate need to take in impressions -- to take in the nourishment that stimulates our mind, that moves our heart, and that works to give us a sense of satisfaction in life. When we're young, we have a natural appetite for life, and we are educated by going out and engaging in the world...

Topic: Start Taking the "Little Steps" that Lead to Spiritual Liberation (7/21/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: Thought may be able to describe spiritual liberation, but it cannot enter into that level of consciousness; Every thought is connected to an identity that corresponds to its content; Three words that must become a single action: attention, intention, and persistence. Attending to a persistent intention. Learn to attend with persistence to a single intention...

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...

Every moment has a voice. The present moment is a voice. The moment is always communicating. It is the ground of communication between worlds, and it turns out to be the communication too. Have you ever been outside, lost in thought, and then suddenly seen something beautiful? Did not that moment of beauty communicate with you a quality that you weren't...

Student Talks: 4/23/2021 - Key Lesson: Being able to realize, and then release one's resistance to any unwanted moment does more than help to change the "dark tide" of that event; it reveals that within us already dwell the untroubled "waters" of a celestial harbor: the timeless shelter of an eternal Self that becomes the same as our own...

Topics Covered: Something higher is always trying to reach us from a part of us that we do not yet realize is already there; Patterns can't change themselves. Anytime we try to break a pattern on its own level, all that we end up doing is strengthening the pattern. In that way we are complicit in the continuation of painful patterns; Unwanted moments seem to stand in the way of what...

Classroom Talk: 4/18/2021 - Being able to realize, and then release one's resistance to any unwanted moment does more than help to change the "dark tide" of that event; it reveals that within us already dwell the untroubled "waters" of a celestial harbor: the timeless shelter of an eternal Self that becomes the same as our own...

Student Talks: 2/12/2021 - Key Lesson: A quiet mind is one that literally lives in a different world than does the mind that talks to itself.

Topics Covered: The thing that our heart is searching for is not of this world, which means that the false self cannot find it by identifying with changing conditions; "In time all things are seeking completion. In the Now all things are complete." -- Maurice Nicoll; What is timeless is already here, we just don't usually see it. Our highest destiny awaits us above us, and what is...

Classroom Talk: 2/7/2021 - A quiet mind is one that literally lives in a different world than does the mind that talks to itself.

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.