Topics covered: Spiritual ideas are worse than useless, unless you apply them in the laboratory of your everyday experience. You cannot fail, if you work; The problem with relying on a bucket-list to make you happy is that the bucket has no bottom; What we see now is only what is in the foreground, so that our experience is only what our attention is on in the foreground. But there could not be a foreground without a background...

Topics covered: In order to learn the right lessons and see the right things, you first have to look in the right direction; Being in a negative state cuts a person off from the nourishment freely and naturally given in every moment; Questions about what to do always appear whenever we find ourselves in a pit of some kind. The mind then answers those questions as if it knows the right direction...

Topics covered: The world that you are seeking to escape from is a creation of your own consciousness, which means that it cannot be avoided; The real source of conflict is inside the consciousness that blames what it perceives to be outside of itself; What goes around comes around, until there is acceptance of what is being revealed; The reason moments seem to repeat themselves...

Topics Covered: Egotism and self-love produces useless suffering; Useless suffering cannot be separated from useless, unseen resistance; The more we resist something, the more we suffer, believing that the resistance to what we want to do or be will somehow liberate us from what we don't want; The more you talk to yourself about why you suffer, the more you suffer...

Classroom Talk: 10/29/2023 - The ceaseless, anxious search to find our true place in life, including what we should be doing with it, can never lead to a happy ending until we realize -- in real terms -- to "whom" it is our life belongs... and to what end.

Classroom Talk: 3/25/2022 - Spiritual liberation is not an attainment; real freedom is not an achievement, let alone the by-product of belief. (It is) a grace-granted realization that we are not who we've mistaken ourselves to be: the limited experience of a temporal body that's been given a temporary place in this world of passing time.

Classroom Talk: 3/18/2020 - Until we are fully present -- awake and attending to each moment as it enters our consciousness -- we dwell somewhere outside of what is being ceaselessly revealed. This means that to whatever extent we are absent from what is real, neither can our response (to it) be real; and so, it follows...