Classroom Talk: 12/14/2022 - The immediate recognition, and subsequent negation of any useless thoughts serves, on the spot, to negate the pain born of being identified with their unconscious "thinker."

Classroom Talk: 2/17/2021 - In the end, the only thing we can truly be in charge of… is ourself. And yet, as paradoxical it seems, the cost of true self-command is the same as the conscious surrender of self.

Classroom Talk: 6/9/2019 - Part 1: All forms of useless struggle originate from the same unseen source: misunderstanding the true purpose of any moment in life over which you suffer -- uselessly -- in the vain attempt to change it. Part 2: It's impossible to change "what is" but... you can use the pain born of resisting any unwanted moment to realize...

Classroom Talk: 3/24/2019 - What is commonly called the "evolution of consciousness" is one and the same as a ceaseless revelation of a limitless awareness within each of us. With this idea in mind, being "self-realized" is inseparable from our willingness to instrument this awareness... regardless of what...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of June 11, 2018. Part 1: We can either spend our lives shaking in fear each time an unwanted moment arrives -- trying, in vain, to protect ourselves from what we've imagined it means... Or, we can use that same moment to start seeing through a false self that believes some newly imagined strength will bring an end to its fear.

Classroom Talk: 3/31/2024 - The reason why the search for the "Truth" of oneself is called "pathless"... is because it's not taken in steps, let alone in any known direction; rather, the "journey" to authentic self-liberation is found in our endless opportunity to enter into an ever-higher order of self-understanding that -- like the light in which it is revealed -- never stops expanding. And... we are invited to travel along.

Classroom Talk: 3/3/2024 - Once we understand that all forces -- even the seemingly contradictory ones -- are secretly complementary, we stand on the threshold of not only discovering the lost secret of letting go and letting God... but, at the same time, find that we are well on our way to realizing the unconditional holiness of life.

Classroom Talk: 4/2/2023 - There is no reward for love, let alone for being "loving." Either love ITSELF is the reward, or it is not.

Classroom Talk: 2/6/2022 - The more we realize our higher, true role in life is to act as an agent for atoning the appearance of "what is" with "what has been" -- by agreeing to surrender the parts of us that interfere with this reconciliation -- the more we see the beauty of this sacrifice as inseparable from an ineffable peace that comes with no longer being apart from Real Life.

Classroom Talk: 9/5/2021 - Part 1: Let every disappointment in life be as the lighted wick of a lamp to first illuminate, and then to consume the attachment now revealed. Part 2: The beginning and the end of all true religion is one thing: surrender. Which begs the question: Surrender of what... and to what? The one who finds the answer to these two seemingly separate questions...