Look around you, wherever you may be and at any moment. Try to see through the roles of actors and actresses crossing this or that stage of life; look past their appearances and seeming differences and you'll find all share one thing in common: people do the things they do in order to try and provide themselves with a feeling of being complete. They sense that there is a...

Student Talks: 11/8/2019 - Key Lesson: Pretending -- to yourself, or around others -- that "all is well" is the unseen hell of the false self. On the other hand, the realization that all unfolds -- moment to moment -- in the only way that it can is not only the first step in awakening from this lower level of consciousness...

Classroom Talk: 10/2/2019 What is the instant denial of any moment in life... other than an unconscious agreement to live under the dark thumb of some unseen, conflicted part of us that refuses to see itself as it is in reality.

Classroom Talk: 7/31/2019 The futility of ambition hides behind the pain of false pride... save for those inevitable, inescapable moments of seeing how we have labored for a "treasure chest" to come that was empty, barren in the same moment of its imagined conception.

Any time we feign anything, we do so out of fear that without that "persona" to protect us--to make that impression we want--we won't get what we want. This whole way of thinking is secret self-sabotage. Your consideration of the two special insights that follow will start you down the path to a whole new kind of self-command.

Classroom Talk: 4/24/2019 The more we resist -- and suffer over -- any moment that proves we don't possess the strength we imagine ourselves as having -- the further removed we are from recognizing the real healing lesson these moments bring with them: the realization that the source of this suffering -- over our alleged "weakness"...

Topic: Cancel Your Membership to "Club Me" (4/14/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Cancel Your Membership to "Club Me" (4/14/19 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 11/11/2018 - Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of November 19, 2018. Anyone who rushes through life always finishes last! This is a truth unseen by the masses, but evident to those weary of going nowhere fast. You race as you do to escape the unhappiness you feel being where you are, running toward what you imagine will free you from that dissatisfaction. But such races are always lost before they be...

Topics Covered: Getting carried away by thought; "I" has a feeling to it that is instantly familiar; Consciously saying "I love you" requires presence; The world has become cheapened; Until you have your own attention, your life is not your own; Wrestling with the angel; Love doesn't hate, have an enemy, have a past, measure, compare, inflate, or self-stimulate; Throwing a toothpick in front o...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of May 28, 2018. It is from out of one's unconscious fear of death that comes the frustration, pain, and inevitable sense of regret born of trying to steal a feeling of being alive.