Present Moment

Student Talks: 06/26/2026 - To identify with any experience of life, no matter how whole it makes us feel in that moment must – at some point – reveal that the “experiencer” of that moment is, in fact, apart from it.

Key Lesson: We can't interfere with the inexplicable flow of God's life, and realize our part in its revelation at the same time; we either learn to move with it, or suffer for being set against it.

Student Talks: 02/13/2026 - Looking to any reaction to resolve, or otherwise reconcile a negative reaction is like chasing a shadow to find the light.

Shadows are forms without substance that create contrast; thoughts are shadows whose substance -- when identified with -- seduce us into seeing a dark world filled with useless solutions to imagined fears.

Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view!

Student Talks: 4/19/2024 - Key Lesson: If -- by the light of remembering and considering what is Timeless, Holy, and True -- the heart is warmed and gradually enflamed, then the following must be true, even if yet to be seen: within us must dwell some sort of celestial kindling; what else can explain how such a flame is created, let alone serve as a light in the darkness of the soul... uniting the twain, making of them as one.

Student Talks: 8/5/2022 - Key Lesson: Part 1: It is impossible to be afraid of oneself, and be in command of oneself at the same time. Part 2: Whatever fear seeds in us, it breeds in us.

Student Talks: 6/10/2022 - Key Lesson: Realized or not... our path (through life) is largely set by unseen parts of ourselves, and we tend to blindly follow wherever they lead. Only the realization of this fact has the power to change the kind of actions we take, beginning with the choices that initiate them; where rather than struggling to come up with the right way to answer any "disturbing" moment...

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...

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.

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.

Student Talks: 1/24/2020 - Key Lesson: Our mind is at last our own only when we can give it fully to the moment at hand, regardless of what life seems to hand us in that moment.