Why do we like hearing about the Celestial? Why are we naturally attracted to such things? It's because we as human beings have the potential to have a direct relationship with that Life. It is seeded in the human heart to long for something higher. The thought of one man is the thought of all men. The beauty pictured by one woman is the beauty pictured by all women. Most of the time we beli...

What would you think of a mother or father who starts yelling at their 5 year-old son because he didn't prepare dinner? It would be a terrible thing. Intuitively we would see such an action as being out of order. It's actually against the Cosmic Law. In the same way, life never asks a human being to be something he or she can't be. It's against the Law. Life at once asks and gives us wha...

Topics covered: Real self-transformation requires self-knowledge; Certainty is nothing but masked uncertainty that is really the wish to be secure; Be more interested in observing your reactions than you are interested in what those reactions say you need to do in order to be free from the disturbance. See what reactions tell you is true about the moment; Challenging the mystery of your reactions is the same as challenging the mystery of yourself...

Topic: The First Step in Saving Yourself from the Most Painful Illusion on Earth (Classroom Talk 3/13/24)

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...

Topics covered: Bear the manifestation of yourself that you are being given in the moment to see. You are being given something to see about yourself so that you might go through a change; You are the center of every moment of creation because you are centered in a place where all celestial forces come streaming down into you for the purpose of revelation...

Topics covered: To understand something completely means to realize it with your mind, heart and body; Every true teaching points to the following fact in one way or another: Unless a person gives up his life, he will not find what his heart really wants; "The first shall be last, and the last shall be first." The personality that is formed by the world and that forms the world it sees is currently the first...

Topics covered: You cannot experience life in a new way unless you first SEE life in a new way; You cannot separate your sense of self from what you are attending to in any given moment; When you have your attention on something you don't want, then you will also have an experience that you don't want; The only reason that you get caught in any unwanted experience is because you...

Topic: New Self-Knowledge to Help You Outgrow Any Negative Reaction (Classroom Talk 6/29/22)

Topics covered: We live within a timeless intelligence that waits for us to grow into it. All truths that we will ever discover already exist, waiting to be discovered; You cannot grow into something without growing out of something else; What you are waiting for is already waiting for you before you even thought to wait for it; Unchecked negative reactions spoil all relationships into which they appear...

Topics covered: Every creature in creation has a relationship with what is directly below it and what is directly above it; Every creature at its center is brought into creation with an innate desire to seek out the initial cause of that desire; "The central urge in every atom, to return to its divine source and origin." -- Walt Whitman; There is no such thing as static spirituality...

Topic: The Real Reason Why It's So Hard to Start Life Over! (Classroom Talk 5/11/22)