Classroom Talk: 5/11/2022 - The only thing 1,000 failed attempts to start life over proves is that we're setting out from the same old place... mistaking it for the only place there is for us to make a new beginning. This is why we must have true self-knowledge because the journey to a new life begins within us or... not at all.

Student Talks: 10/9/2020 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Any form of (psychological) suffering that looks back into the past for its "cause" -- or to the future, in the hope of some imagined freedom to come -- isn't just useless, it's wasted. Part 2: Here is the real "secret" of starting over: No moment in life can be any newer than we are willing...

Student Talks: 8/21/2020 - Key Lesson: Part 1: The divided mind -- driven as it is by unconscious desires -- is very similar to a dog that has learned to throw its own stick. It cannot come to a rest until it has exhausted itself, and even then it can’t let go of what it feels compelled to chase. Part 2: The cost of starting over spiritually...

Classroom Talk: 6/21/2020 - Part 1: The more we will deliberately work to take time out of our day to remember -- and then embrace -- what we know is Timeless and True... the more aware we will become of an Indwelling Light by whose Divine grace is revealed the means and the way to be born anew. Part 2: There is probably no greater treasure...

Student Talks: 5/1/2020 - Key Lesson: The only thing a thousand failed attempts to start our life over proves is that we just keep trying to start from the wrong place... a thousand times. And this is why we must have true self-knowledge, because the journey to a New Life begins within us or... not at all.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 22, 2018. We must persist in finding out that we don't know what we think we do... until the presence of any "knower" within us is seen as being one and the same as the cause of all our useless suffering.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of May 21, 2018. Untouched, uncorrupted by what once was, and yet unfolding from it -- as does a tender new flower from its stem -- comes forth the ever-present moment. But (such) newness holds no familiar pleasure for a mind locked in time: where its struggle to be free unfolds in self-spun captivity, an unwitting but willing captive of a prison whose b...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 15, 2018. If you will learn to tend to every thing that appears in your life in its time, then it won't be long before the whole idea of being anxious over anything will just quietly give way to this ceaseless revelation, accompanied by its peace-giving realization: there is nothing more important for you to do, no other place for you to go...