Topic: The Real Reason Why It's So Hard to Start Life Over! (Classroom Talk 5/11/22)

Topics covered: The urge to make a fresh start does not usually occur to us until we have hit bottom as a result of having been asleep in a dream; There is a purpose for every disturbance, but the sleeping mind does not know the true purpose, and so it searches its own library of content for an explanation; Disturbances would not be pushed away if we understood their true function...

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.

Topic: How to Start Your Whole Life Over Each Day and in Every Way (6/21/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: How to Start Your Whole Life Over Each Day and in Every Way (6/21/20 Classroom Talk)

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...

Topic: 7 Ways to Know When It's Time to Break Up with Yourself (5/12/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: 7 Ways to Know When It's Time to Break Up with Yourself (5/12/19 Classroom Talk)

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...