Have you ever fallen down in a relationship? Fallen down when someone cut you off on the freeway? Fallen down when sudden economic news came at work? Fallen down when a thought revisited you about what mother or father didn't say, or what was taken from you by someone who promised you something and gave you another? Why do we have to fall down? When we...

Growing into the worlds above us - realizing the higher realms of consciousness within us -- requires that we outgrow the worlds beneath us. This is the great model, the matrix of reality, as it is reflected from above to below. There are no exceptions to or exemptions from its rule or purpose. Any appearance to the contrary is just that, and whenever we break this rule ...

Topics covered: Relationships are the ground for all lessons in life; Our partners aren't here to simply please us; Limitations are shown to us through our relationships; Relationships makes us either better people or more bitter people; Fights do nothing to heal pain; Real problems in fights are deeper than what the fight is about...

Topics covered: To say that these are unprecedented times is to forget the fact that human consciousness repeats itself over and over again, which means that the world has been in its current state many times before; Notice that whenever you are thinking about someone that bothers you, you are at war with that person; Whenever you struggle against the clock, in a rush to get somewhere and get things done, you are at war with time...

Student Talks: 10/30/2020 - Key Lesson: The strength of any painful resentment we feel toward others has nothing to do with any troubling character we may judge in them; rather (it is) born of an unseen weakness in us that believes others have the power to either give -- or take -- something from us that we need to be at peace with ourselves.

Topics Covered: No worldly pursuit can bring an end to the sense of being incomplete; We believe that unwanted moments should be avoided at all costs. It is a false belief because meeting unwanted moments reveals to us something that we brought into the moment that could not have exposed in any other way; A false belief is that we are only as valuable as others think we are...