Our relationships with one another are often a source of distress. In general, the principal form of conflict we experience with others has to do with some form of consideration that we feel they are not giving to us. We often suffer from thoughts like these: "She is not being respectful enough." "He is not as kind as I want him to be." "They just don't care as deeply as I do." However, if we...

Topics covered: Relationships are the single greatest, unrecognized spiritual resource in the Universe; Waking up together means that you and I every other human being on this planet are in it together; The endless journey of love; Explanation of the story, Jerry McGuire; No one dumps on another human without the one doing the dumping being in pain; Shattering the pattern...

Topics covered: All that glitters isn't gold; The source of our unhappiness; We're all in training; Relationships is Self; Relationships are the ground of revelation; The woo hoo and the boo hoo stages; We are intended to reveal the truth of ourselves; Expectations and demands are limitations; We develop unconscious mechanical patterns; Real love illuminates...

Topics covered: Be the observer, the conscious witness of what love is inviting you to see about yourself; There is a pain in me that I didn’t know was there; Learning to pick up the spiritual tab by living with your own pain; When you don't return unkindness with unkindness, old patterns collapse on the spot; Learning the lessons we’re meant to learn...

Topic: Transform Any Painful Relationship into a Spiritual Triumph (Classroom Talk 4/3/24)

Classroom Talk: 4/3/2024 - When it comes to conflict between us, and any other -- let alone a person we may love -- anytime there's some kind of painful drama being enacted... each of us is responsible for whatever continues to be played out on that stage.

Student Talks: 3/29/2024 - Key Lesson: We are not being called to be more than we are, let alone to judge ourselves when we see we have missed the mark; rather, we are here to discover ALL that we have been given, and how - if we dare accept this unimaginable gift - we will see it multiplied a hundredfold.

Topic: The Consequence of Living Outside the Law (Classroom Talk 3/6/24)

Topic: How to Walk Out of Any Painful Life Drama (Classroom Talk 8/24/22)

Classroom Talk: 8/24/2022 - We all want to be free of painful dramas in our life, yet refuse to see how we play a lead role in their daily appearance. Catching ourselves in a play of our own making -- hearing ourselves reiterate old lines even we are getting bored with -- sets the stage for closing the curtain on a show where we keep starring in our own suffering.

Student Talks: 10/1/2021 - Key Lesson: Here's why it makes no difference who, or at what we point the finger of blame for any mental or emotional suffering we're given to feel at the time: until we become aware of the unconscious role our own hand plays in the misery of these unwanted moments... nothing can change.