Student Talks: 10/29/2021 - Key Lesson: Just as a river is refreshed -- each moment -- by the small creeks and streams that pour their waters into it, so are we meant to be renewed by the passage of Real Life as it pours into us, revealing all that it does... within us. Of course, this ever-green relationship assumes one thing: that we remain open enough -- each moment...

Student Talks: 1/1/2021 - Key Lesson: The love that we realize in our heart for God is as un-measurable as God's love itself because they are secretly one and the same love. And herein lies what is perhaps Love's greatest mystery: the lover and the beloved do not find one another: they are each other.

Topics Covered:Worldly inspiration can be beautiful, but it can only take us so far. Real inspiration is connected to one's realization that worldly ambitions cannot complete us; The older meaning of perfecting oneself was connected to the idea of completing oneself, completing a journey; Seeing the futility of the path of trying to complete ourselves is the same as stepping onto the true path...

Topics Covered: Being misdirected from the path; You are on this planet to understand the nature of suffering; The purpose of conscious suffering; We are the ground of all that exists; Mistaking a reaction for the only reality there is; Life is a journey in letting go; Everything you see is a part of your own consciousness; Stepping into the unknown; The Divine has already given you everything.