Revelation

Student Talks: 6/3/2022 - Key Lesson: When it comes to developing a living relationship with the Divine, good intentions cost nothing, which is why the road to hell is paved with useless coins. On the other hand, making conscious efforts comes with the cost of encountering the reality of our present level of being; of seeing what we are actually capable of doing, and what we are not...

Topics covered: To find the purpose of your life is to find peace, but not the kind of peace that the mind is seeking, which is conflict disguised as peace; Everything that we see in the visible world comes out of an unknown invisible world. The visible is always being renewed by the invisible; We are a captive of the consciousness that is always attempting to define what it sees...

Topic: Turn Painful Resistance into Self-Realization and Be Set Free (Classroom Talk 3/30/22)

Topics covered: The old idea of turning base metals into gold is a metaphor for the internal process of turning what is base in a human being into something more valuable; The usual first reaction to any unwanted moment is one of resistance; We don't fear the actual moment, but instead we fear our mind's own interpretation of what the moment means...

Classroom Talk: 3/30/2022 - Any resistance to the revelation of some weakness within us, is the weakness; so that contrary to the way we now perceive these painful moments, the resistance we feel to any unwanted moment is not there to punish us, but rather to help polish and perfect the incomplete character within us that it has come to reveal.

Student Talks: 3/4/2022 - Key Lesson: Here is the real reason why so very few ever realize a conscious relationship with the Divine: higher Love is consummated only in the awareness and acceptance of one's own spiritual poverty... so that one's soul is slowly matured through an ever-deepening humility that is, itself, the doorway to Heaven.

Topics covered: Participating in the moment is the same as using the moment for revelation of yourself; Spiritually speaking, attempting to achieve freedom FROM something is the same as not wanting what that thing is revealing about yourself; Everything we do in order to be free puts us under more laws, which is more captivity; Your nature is your future. Your consciousness is your future.

Student Talks: 1/28/2022 - Key Lesson: Our true purpose in life has nothing whatsoever to do with anything that can be imagined, let alone anxiously pursued.

Topics covered: We don't know what it means to be effortlessly here (in the present moment); The mind is disconnected from the body whenever we do something that we later wish we hadn't done; Nothing good can happen if the mind is disconnected from the body. The mind is unconscious to what it does to the body in its pursuits; Something always goes ahead of us trying to figure out...

Topic: Freedom From Harmful Anger Starts Here (9/29/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: We have never been angry at someone else without also being completely justified in that anger. The justification excuses us from examining whether or not the anger is harmful; Chronic repressed anger can and does harm the physical body, compromising our health, and it also corrupts the soul; The real pandemic is unchecked negativity in the form of anger...

Topic: See Yourself in the Divine Mirror and Be Set Free (4/28/21 Classroom Talk)