Topics Covered: Resistance claims to know in advance how to be at peace; Use your life to discover the truth that sets you free; You can't have a judgment without there being something in place prior to the moment; Is the feeling of a negative state pleasurable, or painful?; With every judgment there is an attending pain; The pain begins with a consciousness that already knows...

Topics Covered: Is it true that God never gives you more than you can handle; When your understanding changes, your perception changes; To be asleep means to be outside of Presence; You are meant to discover qualities of yourself through the ceaseless movement of life; How do I empty myself of a self-centered nature; The mind occupies itself with trying to fix the feeling of being incomplete...

Topics Covered: Leave the teaching moment alone; Feeling an instantaneous sense of "No!"; Understanding the spirit of inquiry; Recognizing the pattern of: reaction -> description -> action; The circumstances are the stage for the lesson presented; The instruction exists in the very moment of disturbance; "Who you are" and "what to do" are actually one thing in the moment

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.