We are a peculiar race of beings. On one hand, each of us professes to be concerned with growing and self-developing while, on the other hand, none of us ever wants to be wrong. This is a paralyzing contradiction. If we are always right, or at least afraid of being wrong, what have we to learn? Couched in our hidden attitude is that we already know everything. This is a serious problem if we a...

There can be no starting place in our lives any truer than what our own awareness of the present moment permits. This friendly fact tells us that our life direction, our actual destiny, is determined by the level of our awareness that attends the full range of each step we take. The next two examples prove this insight beyond the calling of any logic. No one consciously takes a step in haste...

Unlike the untold billions of other life forms teeming on the Earth -- whose nature is an open and shut case -- human nature is not fixed. What does this mean to you? Only everything! The tiger, the horse, and the bird, must express their nature. They have no real choice. And even though they may be free to choose which part of the jungle, or open range, in which they want to feed and...

Helpful ideas about what is required of us if we wish to realize our True Nature, and offering specific examples of how to do the inner work necessary to align ourselves with the Eternal Truth that lives within us.

No one can be free who refuses to see what actually lives within him. This is why Real self-healing begins with Truthful self-seeing. There is no other order, no other way. Consciousness of any unwanted condition in us must precede its correction, just as the rising sun dismisses the fear hiding in the darkness of night. This is why we must learn that anything in us that does not want us to se...

Student Talks: 11/10/2023 - Key Lesson: Our highest possibility for spiritual growth can't be separated from our daily work to question, explore, and illuminate any dark thoughts and feelings that may confront us along the Way. A fearless life awaits anyone who will cast-off from the "shores of the known," and who will remain set on that celestial course called "self-knowledge."

Topics covered: A true spiritual school is a place intended to open up questions that have been dormant in you, and then help you remember to find answers within your own life experience; The symbol of the snake eating its own tail connotes that there is no beginning and there is no end; There is no such thing as a painful real question. Rather, there is a consciousness that asks questions whenever there is a disturbance...

Topic: The One True Answer to Every Soul-Troubling Question (Classroom Talk 3/22/23)

Topics covered: The solution to the disturbance is built right into the disturbance itself. The antidote is in the venom; The questions that appear in the face of a pain have been appearing to humanity throughout all time. These questions lead to plans that promise to get rid of the pain but only serve to intensify it; You think it is "you" asking these questions because they are so familiar...

Classroom Talk: 3/22/2023 - What is Limitless hides within, and just behind limitation. So anyone who will agree to silently slip into the quiet awareness of any painful sense of inadequacy -- refusing to bow before it -- will be crowned with a new and unimaginable strength.

Topic: Walk Through the Fear of Limitation and Realize Endless Liberation (Classroom Talk 11/30/22)