The mind asleep to itself doesn't realize that it created the problem that it can't stop trying to resolve; and that the more it struggles to try and think through a solution to its self-induced conflict, the greater grows its struggle to escape that suffering.

Topics covered: If you want to know why you don't have the kinds of impressions that change your life, it's because impressions don't come without humility. Humility is inseparable from true impressions; A single impression can change the entire direction of a person's life. When there is an actual impression, it changes the nature of what it has impressed itself upon; There are moments when, through an impression...

Topics covered: Between awakening and rebirth there has to be a death. Nothing is born anew that doesn't die to what it was before; Our lives are presently the experience of our own creation; Until we are aware of what dwells in the dark of ourselves, we are subject to whatever that nature does in the absence of that awareness; Imagined security requires an imagined self to keep it in place...

Topics covered: Anything that I think that I am, I fear that I am not. Fear is built into identification; The purpose of a true spiritual teaching is to develop the soul individually and collectively at the same time. It is not about "you"; We presently live in a spiritual darkness, and the purpose of spiritual work is to bring light into that darkness, but we have to be willing to allow that light to reveal and enact its Will...

Topics Covered: What do we all really need in this life? We need to be loved; Everything we do in this life, however mistaken or incomplete it may be, is for the sake of feeling loved. But there is an immense difference between feeling loved and being loved. Feeling loved is a desire; being loved is an action; In order to love you as myself I must first stop trying to make you into me.

Topics Covered: We are intended to use the world that we are in to enter into another world within ourselves that cannot be turned upside-down by anything that happens; Real life never acts against you. Something in us believes that life does act against us, with a mindset saying that there are events that are for us, and events that are against us; Nothing in creation acts against itself...

Topics Covered: God enters as self-love exits; You cannot separate useless suffering from the level of consciousness that produces that same suffering; When the real truth about suffering is revealed, most people run from it; Why else would we try to escape our suffering unless we believed that there was a way to do it?; Resistance to pain is not the same as the pain being resisted...

Topics Covered: Everything is in the only place it can be in the moment. If we are struggling, then it is us who is in the wrong place; It is not really the same familiar day that we live over and over again. What we are really living over and over again is the familiar content of our own consciousness, which cannot be separated from the experience we have of life...

Topics Covered: Instead of setting us free, anything that we identify with as being the source of freedom turns out to be a prison; We resist moments because of the perceived threat of losing something, of somehow being made less by the moment; The mind that resists the moment will produce an image of what needs to be done to get through the moment unharmed...

Topics Covered: "Made in the image of God" means that we human beings are the embodiment of all the forces that create and give life to all that exists. These forces are blind, and they have authority over us when we are unaware of their activity; Real beauty is not just in the beautiful object that is seen by the physical eyes, but in the realization that the observer is the observed...

Topics Covered: Being misdirected from the path; You are on this planet to understand the nature of suffering; The purpose of conscious suffering; We are the ground of all that exists; Mistaking a reaction for the only reality there is; Life is a journey in letting go; Everything you see is a part of your own consciousness; Stepping into the unknown; The Divine has already given you everything.

Student Talks: 3/27/2020 - Key Lesson: We must abandon all solutions about what to do with our suffering that don’t change anything... but themselves.