Classroom Talk: 12/18/2022 - We cannot hope to find true peace without fulfilling the purpose of (our) life, and we can't fulfill that purpose without awakening to the Web of Divine Relationships within which the purpose of (our) being has already been sown. So that anything working to interfere with this realization is, at best, delaying its revelation...

Classroom Talk: 9/11/2022 - Being convinced to worry over some darkness that "might be" just around the corner is an unseen interior shell game; (it's) a "play and lose" operation run by parts of us that know if they can't keep us resisting some impending fear they will have no choice but to disappear!

Classroom Talk: 3/20/2022 - You will never agree to spend another moment attending to worried thoughts and feelings once you realize that they don't care about you at all!

Classroom Talk: 10/17/2021 - Part 1: So great is the need of the false self to feel "important" that it never stops imagining what it must have to feel that way; so that, by default, it lives in an almost constant fear of any moment it sees as a threat its desired sense of self. And, as incredible as it seems, it uses this ensuing state of self-created tension as proof that the crowning...

Classroom Talk: 8/15/2021 - Part 1: A rose doesn't "try" to be beautiful; it never struggles to win one's attention, or to prove its value. Any part of us -- pressing on us to try and make a favorable impression -- of any kind, upon anyone for any reason -- is a form of useless suffering born of trying to escape the fear of being seen as "no one."

Classroom Talk: 10/2/2020 - Whatever temporary "strength" we derive from any stressed, agitated state of mind -- as it empowers us to "go through" what it is pushing us do -- is a lie. The only "power" this lower level of consciousness possesses is to deceive us into believing that it's better to run from (our) pain than to turn around...

Classroom Talk: 6/10/2020 - Nothing can take from us our spiritual freedom; it is a Divine Gift, which means any time we find ourselves struggling to escape the captivity of a negative state, it's only because we’re (temporarily) asleep, caught in the web of a dark dream from which we’ve yet to awaken.

It never occurs to us to question our standing belief that the right order of things in unwanted moments is either to long for what we imagine is missing from our life -- and therefore the reason for our pain -- or, to protect ourselves from what we imagine may be threatening our security. But, the real order of things is an Undivided Wholeness that wants for nothing.

Spiritual awakening is the realization of one's (own) consciousness becoming aware of itself; where self-integration is the same as transcending the suffering born of the temptation to identify with "one side, or the other" of every passing event. This level of consciousness can't be deceived into seeing any opposite as "good," or -- its other side -- as "evil"... because it knows, without tak...