Spiritual Growth

Topics covered: When we have pain in our relationship with others, we never turn to ourselves and wonder, "What is this about?"; We have no idea what to do about our pain, let alone why we have it; The people and problems in your life are not there to produce suffering, they are there to reveal to you something latent in your consciousness that you do not yet understand; There is no "self" without relationship. It is a mutually dependent experience...

There are so many things for a person to love, but if we ever want to be what it is that we say we want to be, then we must have one love. It is the extent to which we love -- and the degree to which we make the appropriate sacrifices for that love -- that the very thing we love rewards us with the relationship we long for.

Student Talks: 04/10/2026 - Every movement we make is determined before we are conscious of it; yet, absorbed in the minutia of life, we do not see this. And what is true of our actions is true of our thoughts and emotions as well: we are the manifestation of a Divine, still, and silent Light in timeless motion.

The one who rushes is continuously almost where he imagines he needs to be... to be free; whereas the one who dares to slow down his life discovers that he is always standing in a living Light wherein he sees that he is... and has always been free!

Topic: The End of the Fear of Everything (Classroom Talk 9/18/24)

Student Talks: 12/22/2023 - Key Lesson: Every once in a while, we have the great fortune of perceiving a moment of such astonishing beauty, or harmony, that we all but lose ourselves within it. But what is far more amazing than any such vision is this breathtaking fact: were it not for our mysterious capacity to perfectly reflect that moment -- to be one with it in heart, mind, and soul -- there would be no beauty or harmony to behold.

Topic: Welcome This Healing Truth and Outgrow Whatever Troubles You in Life (Classroom Talk 9/13/23)

Topics covered: You are relieved from the false responsibility of trying to fix yourself or others when you understand the true root and meaning of the disturbance; The problem is not what you see in the mirror. The problem is that there is something in you that believes that what you see should not be there; Truly outgrowing something is not the same as imagining some other new identity to grow into...

Classroom Talk: 9/13/2023 - Trying to change any unwanted condition without first awakening to, and then realizing the nature of the consciousness responsible for creating it... is like blaming a mirror for what you don't like seeing (in it).

Topic: The Cost of Spiritual Freedom (Classroom Talk 11/23/22)