Topic: Take Off the "Hat of Unhappiness" and Welcome a Brand New You (Classroom Talk 3/8/23)

Topics covered: Our task as spiritual aspirants is to explore. And whatever qualities we discover within ourselves are neither good nor bad of themselves, but thinking makes them so; When you discover something about yourself, the revelation of that discovery has its own corresponding action; Punchline of the story about the professional actor: He does not know anymore when he is on stage...

Classroom Talk: 3/8/2023 - Only in a world turned upside-down could someone actually believe that his daily dose of stress, anxiety, and despair somehow proves he is as special as he imagines himself to be.

Topics covered: There is no freedom without real faith, but faith is not a belief; Faith is the living expression of a human being's conscious relationship with the Divine. It is a direct participation in creation itself; You do not need to conjure up faith in order to participate in life. You need to be awake to what is keeping you from participating in that life, then real faith is there...

Topics covered: Images of ourselves exist instead of us, and they exist only in our mind; Actions that we take against ourselves are the response to unseen anxiety we felt the moment before; To create or to complete, that is the question; Aside from practical thought, the very nature of planning for a moment to come is the seed of fear; Our minds are seeded with constant dissatisfaction...

It seems natural to fear moments we don't want, to avoid any knock at the door of some untimely event. But it's not these moments themselves that we are afraid of: what we fear is our reaction to them, so that we can't see that this experience we don't want... is actually the pain of a negative reaction as it unfolds within us.

The mind that wants to know the truth of something, and that's willing to do the work required for such a discovery, will inevitably find that for which it is searching; our highest aspirations are reflections of unrealized possibilities. All scripture, from the east to the West, confirms this timeless truth: We need only ask, and it shall be given.

Topic: How to Invite the Light of God to Help Set You Free (Classroom Talk 5/25/22)

Topics covered: There is no such thing as a bad fact about yourself; What do we do when we don't want to see something about ourselves? The consciousness that resists immediately formulates a lie in order to protect itself from what it has just been shown about itself; "The unexamined life is not worth living." ~ Socrates...

Classroom Talk: 5/25/2022 - It is impossible to resist a revelation, and serve its Divine purpose at the same time.

In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley talks about staying awake and present to the pressure we feel to avoid unwanted events. There is nothing to fear because the awareness itself will put ourselves and everything else in its proper place.

Topics covered: Relationships are a mirror; What we look at in life, even physically, stirs in us something spiritually; Beauty is in the eye of the beholder; We experience moment to moment the revelation of our own consciousness; Relationships are intended to continue to help us develop the capacity we have to act as the vessel of revelation; The purpose of a relationship is to take...