Topic: Step Out of the Anxious Rush and Into Your Real Life (Classroom Talk 1/17/24)

Topics covered: The mind that is blind is first and foremost blind to the fact that it doesn't see; Your whole life is meant to be spent aware of being endlessly given something new to see, to see everything that is passing through you; What if the whole of your life is about what you have yet to see about yourself? You must sincerely wish to see what you are being given to see...

Classroom Talk: 1/17/2024 - The endless -- and futile effort -- to complete yourself in a time to come is as hopeless as trying to free yourself from a pressing hunger pain by believing the more time you spend reading the menu of your favorite restaurant, the fuller you're going to feel.

Topic: Transform Painful Anxiety into Perfect Self-Command (3/31/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: Understood properly, the momentary awareness of any shortfall in our character is really a Divine intervention; where, by a Light that "dwells in a darkness that knows it not" we are given a glimpse of a truth that cannot be known otherwise. The acceptance of this intervention initiates a holy transformation, and the realization of our liberation...

Topics Covered: The root of the loss of freedom is in the consciousness that arrogantly tries to create freedom according to its idea of what freedom is; We rush through life to get to where and what we already are, which is already whole; Negative reactions are the dark effect of misunderstanding who we are; We're never where we are, doing what we're doing because we are always...

Classroom Talk: 3/31/2021 - Part 1: All forms of anxious rushing through life are the painful effect of an impossible task: trying, in vain, to complete ourselves... by serving an incomplete, compulsive nature that always has one more task to get through before it can rest in its imagined place of peace. Part 2: There is a momentary peace...

Topics Covered: The wave is a momentary expression of something much greater; We would not be able to experience movement without the presence of stillness through which it moves; Movement and stillness are not apart from each other, they are a unity; Seeing is coming into a relationship with a being within which everything already awaits; Identification is blindness...

Student Talks: 12/20/2019 - Key Lesson: Refusing the urge to rush through anything is the same as accepting an invitation to join yourself to a higher order of reality in which everything is always right where it needs to be in exactly the moment needed.

Student Talks: 12/6/2019 - Key Lesson: Patience is painful to those parts of us that believe rushing is natural, necessary, and required of anyone who wants to be a more productive human being.

Student Talks: 8/16/2019 - Key Lesson: The faster, more excited, move one's thoughts, the more solid the illusion there is a "self" that sits at the center of them.

Classroom Talk: 6/12/2019 - The sure way to guarantee that your suffering goes on unabated is to keep talking to yourself about it!