Topics Covered: Before we can change the world that we see, we're going to have to change the way we see the world; We usually see the world around us through the ideas that we have about it. The mind is mechanically habituated to see everything as being apart from itself; The mind is always fixed on something that it believes is separate from itself, but in reality nothing is fixed...

Topics Covered:Worldly inspiration can be beautiful, but it can only take us so far. Real inspiration is connected to one's realization that worldly ambitions cannot complete us; The older meaning of perfecting oneself was connected to the idea of completing oneself, completing a journey; Seeing the futility of the path of trying to complete ourselves is the same as stepping onto the true path...

Classroom Talk: 4/7/2024 - Part 1: We can't be anxiously looking for real Life, and take part in its rebirth at the same time. Part 2: United we see; divided we fall.

Classroom Talk: 2/25/2024 - Just as the eyes that see the sun cannot understand its light by which they behold the shape and beauty of all things, neither can the heart understand the love that calls it to know and encompass all things. Eye and heart are creatures in time, but Light and Love are not. Even so, all meet; and to be a silent witness to their inexpressible union... is to realize the pathless journey to the indwelling Divine.

Classroom Talk: 12/16/2023 - The fear of silent immensity belongs to a lower nature attached to, and dependent on dividing life up into separate experiences in order to generate a familiar, continuing sense of self. Which begs the question: who or what needs to be special when -- in the revelation of any Divine impression -- it's evident that everything is (special) by right of its existence.

Classroom Talk: 9/17/2023 - To SEE that the dark shadow of any dragon is just as unreal as the shadow of the treasure that it guards... is the doorway into a world wherein no fearful shadows can dwell.

Classroom Talk: 5/14/2023 - There is no struggle in seeing; and certainly, whatever is being observed does not resist being seen. So, if and when there's some instant form of painful resistance to the appearance of any given moment, it's always due to the nature of the seer.

Classroom Talk: 4/30/2023 - The witness to experience is not bound by it, any more than a clear sky can be captured by a passing cloud, or a sound can seize the ear that hears it.

Classroom Talk: 1/8/2023 - To identify with even the brightest star is to lose sight of the boundless heavens within which it shines... without whose vast tracts of darkness would no celestial light be seen.

Classroom Talk: 11/20/2022 - Part 1: I am only as free as I am unknown, experiencing unfamiliar moments unfolding in an unknowable world. Part 2: As long as there's a limit to what we're willing to surrender -- to sacrifice of ourselves that we might awaken from the dream we dream -- we've given up little, save for a few precious moments of sleep.

Classroom Talk: 6/26/2022 - Part 1: The secret entrance into the unknowable Divine can never be found in this or that thought, but only within a faith-based action that must be trial-tested before it can be counted on as unquestionably True. Part 2: The instant that we stir any element of time -- of thought -- into our experience of the present moment we have sown the seed of our own suffering into the same.

Classroom Talk: 4/24/2022 - It is a distinct stage in the development of the aspirant when -- rather than being easily distracted by some imagined consolation for his pain, or by concluding who is to blame for it -- his first and real preference in that dark moment is to increase his awareness of his condition, and not to find ways around it.