Student Talks: 1/7/2022 - Key Lesson: Much as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so it holds true: our experience of any given moment -- for its light or darkness -- its joy or sorrow -- is cast in the image of the consciousness momentarily awakened to reflect upon itself.

Student Talks: 11/19/2021 - Key Lesson: It is an eternal law: everything is always being changed, ceaselessly transformed into something else; but within us dwells the light of a Divine intelligence that is the unchanging center of all there is, or that ever will be.

Topics Covered: We are presently cut off from the larger world that we're meant to be a part of; Whenever we think of what a larger world may be, we are only in the world of thought without knowing it. Our mind only knows how to imagine a larger world; The larger world is above us, beneath us, and awareness of above and below at the same time; Complaining about life is not the...

Classroom Talk: 11/14/2021 - It is an eternal law: everything is always being changed, ceaselessly transformed into something else; but within us dwells the light of a Divine intelligence that is the unchanging center of all there is, or that ever will be.

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...

Classroom Talk: 10/24/2021 - Part 1: 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 are remain open enough -- each moment...

What is behind the fear of unwanted change? The uninvestigated mind says that I'm going to sustain a loss: "he's going away," "the business is slipping," etc. The fear of loss is connected in our mind with the image of what had previously given us the feeling of succeeding. So now here's reality, and it's pretty different than our image of what should be, and we'd rather live with the image...

Topic: Enter the Fullness of Real Life that Is Freedom Itself (8/25/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: If you do not know what initiates the actions you take, then there is no "you" choosing to do anything at all; Why would we limit the impressions that come with an unwanted moment? Why would we limit any impression at all, especially when it is these impressions that ultimately lead (through reactions) to our actions?; Within us there is a door that leads to...

Classroom Talk: 8/25/2021 - Just as the wise captain of a sailboat knows that a dead calm often precedes a new set of winds to fill his sails, so can the aspirant who is patient in the face of a growing emptiness be assured that a whole new order of fullness is on its way.

The better we understand the unique power of being "passive"- and how it serves as the secret consort of all things active - the more we grow in the faith we need to be wisely passive toward whatever fears remain in us about letting go of our false self. This is why we should take time each day -- as often as possible -- to quietly return to the living Light that dwells in the...

Topics Covered: Allow the pain to reveal what we can no longer profit from and must give up; You are supposed to be overwhelmed; What is Divine never shows us more than we are capable of seeing; Our task is to see what we are given to see; Dare to be present enough to explore the consciousness that doesn't want the pain; The most exciting discovery in the world...