Classroom Talk: 10/25/2023 - The inevitable outcome of all unconscious self-compromise -- within ourselves, but primarily in relationships with others -- is to reach a kind of critical mass of resentment that then spills itself out on others in words and deeds too soon enacted, and too late regretted.

Classroom Talk: 9/15/2021 - Claiming that we want to understand the source of (our) suffering without being willing to enter the (lower) level of consciousness that creates it... Is like saying we want to explore the depths of the ocean while reclining on a lounge chair somewhere near the shoreline.

Classroom Talk: 9/15/2019 - Each moment is pregnant with infinite new possibilities that can only be realized and conceived in the "womb" of a higher consciousness that waits -- in perfect stillness -- to be both the instrument, and the witness of that new birth.

Classroom Talk: 8/9/2020 - We can imagine almost anything save this one unimaginable exception: the dark walls that seem to close in on us in the midst of some unwanted moment are, in fact, nothing more than (parts of) a dark dream born of a mind so asleep to itself... it can't see it has unconsciously imagined the meaning of that moment...

Classroom Talk: 8/14/2019 Living within us... is a lower level of consciousness. This "in-the-dark" nature does not want to know itself, and resists any form of light that reveals its highly conflicted character. Fortunately -- by grace -- within us also dwells a Living Light whose awareness not only reveals the dark realm of this unconscious "self"...