The small handsome sign over the new shop in town was simple. Its hand-carved wood-block letters read: Rare Wine Shop. Hanging directly beneath it was a smaller, arrow-shaped sign, pointing directly to the always-open shop door. Brightly painted letters spelled out the invitation: Visitors Welcome! Taste the difference! And inside the shop the lights were always on, so that no one passing...

Topic: Open Your Eyes and See Beyond the Fearful Self (Classroom Talk 9/6/23)

Classroom Talk: 9/6/2023 - To resist, and then avoid the unwanted appearance of any limitation in our life is the failure that we fear in that same moment. There is no other failure than to live in fear, and it exists only in the (self-inflicted) isolation of unconsciously identifying with any form of negative imagination.

Topic: The One True Solution that Dissolves Unconscious Suffering (Classroom Talk 8/9/23)

Classroom Talk: 8/9/2023 - Real life never stops starting over; but, before we can step foot in this timeless new kingdom -- and know any portion of its unencumbered freedom -- we must agree to step out of the world of dreams, and leave behind us their endless illusion of a "better time" to come.

Topic: 7 Signs of Being Spiritually Asleep (8/5/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 8/5/2020 - The wish and the work to be present -- to live in the Presence moment -- is the upper path. The "steps" alternate between complementary discoveries: first seeing within ourselves where and how we fall spiritually asleep... A discovery that, in turn, becomes both impetus and the power we need to wake up and to walk out of...

Topic: How to Cross Over the River of Dark, Painful Dreams (5/19/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: How to Cross Over the River of Dark, Painful Dreams (5/19/19 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 12/13/2020 - The Divine journey begins with our gradual awakening to the timeless depth and breadth of our own sleeping consciousness. All that we are, and hope to be already resides therein... waiting to reveal its Light to whoever will dare make the leap into the seeming darkness of its perfect emptiness...

Topics covered: Love moves in slow motion; We make so much out of nothing; Reality is a singularity; To be unaware is to be spiritually asleep; Our consciousness has no awareness of itself; Beginning to doubt your own certainty produces an awareness of the opposites; I can't hurt you without having hurt myself first; You can't do any more than your consciousness allows...