Topic: Free Yourself From the Fear of Empty Moments (3/22/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 3/22/2020 - A brief, but important glimpse into the truth behind the idea of "spiritual" poverty: only from nothing can God make us into something new.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 12, 2018. When it comes to our wish to make real changes in ourselves, good intentions cost (us) nothing...and that's why the road to hell is paved with useless coins. On the other hand, making a conscious effort to change -- in the moment that calls for it -- comes with the cost of seeing ourselves as we really are...

Classroom Talk: 1/22/2023 - As long we find value in being identified with anything, we remain the captive of an unconscious nature that not only never stops longing for what it imagines will make it secure, but that also consents to suffer over its inability to satisfy its own insatiable desire.

Classroom Talk: 5/22/2022 - Part 1: That we should search only our own conscience for confirmation of what is good and true, this is the best definition of integrity. For that which is good and true is not social in nature, but spiritual in need and in deed. Part 2: Here is an enigma wrapped in a paradox: we cannot buy the love of the Divine; no good deed can produce the...

Classroom Talk: 1/1/2020 - Here is the real "secret" of starting over: No moment in this life of ours can be any newer than we are willing to be at the outset of its appearance.

Meditation Talk: 7/19/2019 - An ever-widening meditation -- that can, and should be practiced everywhere, under any circumstance, (other than when one must employ practical thought) -- is how we steadily bridge the illusion of duality... ending the painful illusion of imagining ourselves as apart from the Divine source of our (own) soul.

Topics covered: How do I deal with a pattern of anxiety and stress; What is Being; Why am I unable to act quickly on what I know I need to do; Our present nature is constantly in a dream; We don't see the pit coming because we're already in it. The consciousness itself is the pit; Dreaming in physical sleep versus dreaming in spiritual sleep; We dream because we want to escape what we are; Pai...