Topics covered: Worry never gives back a return on the investment of time, energy and tears that we pour into it; The moment a disturbance comes up, the only thing we know to do is remand ourselves over to a consciousness that can only worry about what to do about it; The general reason why we worry is that something in us believes that things are not the way they are supposed to be...

Topics covered: It is not in our power to change WHAT we experience. But it is in our power to change WHO is having the experience; To understand the nature of your experience in each moment is the beginning of changing who is having the experience; Most of us would not even know who we are without having something to be tense about, something to be in conflict over...

Topics covered: The right place and the right time is always right where you are right now; We've never tried NOT trying to fix the unwanted moment that we blame for our pain; What is concealed must be revealed in order for it to be healed; We express negativity when we don't know what else to do with a seemingly overwhelming moment; The more you don't want something...

Topics covered: Real spiritual work is not about taking things, acquiring possessions to add to yourself; The fundamental difficulty in authentic spiritual work is that you must see things about yourself that you don't want to believe are true; Everything you tell yourself about fear and anxiety is the fear and anxiety telling you what to do so that the fear and anxiety can remain hidden...

Topics covered: In the world of imagination there is no heaven, there is only hell disguised as heaven; The only thing that has authority over you is what you look to for a sense of self; A machine can never be free because it can only do what it has been originally programmed to do; A machine can only work within the confines of its own content; Freedom from the machine already exists...

Topics Covered: It is only in a real school that it is possible for a person to receive consistent new impressions. A new impression cannot be separated from a revelation about yourself. A new impression and a revelation about yourself are one and the same thing; Every real new impression only happens once. There is no such thing as a repeating impression; All impressions are spiritually...

Student Talks: 10/22/2021 - Key Lesson: 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...

Topics Covered: Conscience is the creator of any natural boundaries. Fear creates unnatural boundaries that are made to protect the consciousness that is afraid; The habitual reaction to something that bothers us is either fight or flight; We fight over what we want, and we take flight from what we don't want; If other people don't want what we want, then there is conflict...

Student Talks: 8/20/2021 - Key Lesson: 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."

Topics Covered: We are awash in a world of resistance which isn't just global in its formation, but finds in us a willing instrument; It doesn't matter what this world does because this is not your world; We all suffer from SFS and FOPPS, which stand for "Stage Fright Syndrome" and "Fear Of Poor Performance Syndrome." The symptoms of these syndromes are anxiety, worry and self-doubt...

Topics Covered: Even with all of our rushing and doing and struggling, nothing real changes; There is always a feeling in a divided consciousness that there is a distance that must be spanned before it can be at ease; In reality there is no distance between you and the "I Am" that always is, between you and peace, between you and what is perfect; A part of us creates the idea that...

Topics Covered: Understood properly, the momentary awareness of any shortfall in our character is really a Divine intervention; where, by a Light that "dwells in a darkness that knows it not" we are given a glimpse of a truth that cannot be known otherwise. The acceptance of this intervention initiates a holy transformation, and the realization of our liberation...