Topics covered: It is wise to seek immortality because time defeats all other ambitions; The greatest prize hidden within our inner life is victory over death. Uncovering the treasure is a matter not of intellectual knowledge only, but of awareness, relationship, participation and understanding; The desert in spiritual stories represents the endless useless struggle to escape from conflict, not seeing that the attempt to escape is the perpetuation of the conflict.

Topics covered: Real power begins to reveal itself when a person starts to realize that there is no need to seek for power as it is imagined; Life presents conditions that prove that the sand castles we have built for ourselves are not real due to how easily they can be washed away; The consciousness is set on ensuring that everything stays in place so that it can continue to look at itself through familiar conditions, and imagine itself as something real and permanent.

Topics covered: Each negative state that we currently act from comes with an incredibly strong sense of self whenever that weakness appears. The real root of the weakness is the identification with the state; We draw a strong sense of self from the very weakness that we say we wish to be from from. There is an addiction to resisting the weakness; There is nothing real that happens when we revisit the past...

Topics covered: There is nothing that you can do in a dream to wake you up from the nightmare of being a human being who is spiritually asleep; Unlike all other creatures, you have been given the gift to be aware of your own consciousness, as opposed to being asleep within it and a captive of its own movements; The mind creates a dark drama and then struggles to find a way to escape from the very scene...

Topics Covered: Worry is not only a lie, but it also steals our life; Life is always creating and revealing at the same time. The very unfolding of creation causes a revelation in us; they are a singularity; We are always in a new relationship with the moment, but we are not aware of that relationship; Our tendency is feel as if we are under attack when we feel pain in any unwanted moment...

Student Talks: 9/11/2020 - Key Lesson: Whenever we are taken over by a negative state -- and remain identified with our resistance to it -- we may not know it, but in these moments... we are as good as “dead.” Yes, it feels like we’re alive, but this powerful sense of self is really just the presence of our (own) painful resistance to what that...

Student Talks: 7/10/2020 - Key Lesson: The only reason we live in the shadow of any fear or sorrow -- let alone agree to suffer the dark reactions that justify such self-limitation -- is for the absence of a Divine Light that would show us -- if we would only dare step into it -- that the threat behind any unwanted moment is as unreal as...

Topics Covered: Someone has to be the first; The healing of pain is in its revelation; Stop analyzing the pain and just see it instead; No reaction can heal itself; Do not oppose what opposes you; Every denial of the appearance of pain is the perpetuation of the consciousness responsible for it; Resistance to any unwanted condition is attributing power to it; If healing does not start with...

Topics covered: The illusion of a separate self; There is a communication between levels of ourselves that we're not aware of; We're conditioned to believe in the power of choice; The first choice is to see the nature of the chooser; The more awakened you become the less choices you make; Fear is a lie because there's no one there who is apart from life to fear it...