Student Talks: 11/24/2023 - Key Lesson: The single greatest unseen cause of premature aging, stress-related health issues, and ultimately of death is... the deeply mistaken, agonizing idea that somehow our constant struggle to control the outcome of any moment we fear will one day free us from these moments we fear.

Topics covered: As long as you are afraid of life, you have not accomplished anything, despite how much you believe you have accomplished; It is a nightmare to believe that you have to endlessly prove yourself, over and over again; There is an immense difference between trying to prove yourself, and trying to be yourself. We have mistaken "proving yourself" for "being yourself." The world does not know anything about what it means to "be yourself."

Topics covered: The world's definition of peace is a state in which there is nothing interfering with what we want; One reason that we are drawn to nature is that everything in nature is in balance, everything is in its place as it should be; What you see as being out of place is not the problem. What is out of place is the level of consciousness itself that sees everything outside...

Classroom Talk: 2/16/2022 - The nature of what the Divine "notices" about us is completely different than the nature of what we do to get noticed.

Topics Covered: Self-acceptance is self-realization. The rejection of a moment is the same as resisting a moment of revelation; There is intended to be a release in each moment... if we are willing to accept the revelation in it; Conditions do not create conflict. The conflict is already there before the condition, and before we even know it. We come into the moment holding onto...

Topics Covered: What difference does it make what others think of you?; A coward dies a thousand deaths; Do what is in your power and refuse to do what is not; Outgrowing beliefs involves exposing the consciousness that holds it; We are made aware of the sleeping consciousness when it resists; Awareness is the beginning of enlightenment, and enlightenment...

The real source of resentment toward others is not due to some power we may think they have and hold over us; rather, it arises from a secret weakness within us that keeps us believing that someone else holds the key to our well being.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of May 7, 2018. Let every search for a solution to the suffering you feel begin in the unlit corners of your own consciousness, and soon you will never again wonder "why" you feel the worries, fear, and the bitterness that you do.