Topic: Tune In and Get Turned On to Real Life (Classroom Talk 5/4/22)

Topics covered: Everything that we see is through its reflection in our consciousness, including physical objects; Beauty is in our consciousness, not just in the outside condition that it sees, but it needs the condition to reveal that the observer is the observed; If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then so is fear, doubt and anxiety; Our present consciousness is mirrored in the...

Classroom Talk: 5/4/2022 - There is a proportionate and direct relationship between the degree of an inconsolable pain -- some form of suffering that's pretty much our daily companion -- and our misunderstanding the true purpose of why we have been given a life.

Student Talks: 4/29/2022 - Key Lesson: 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.

Topics covered: The way you walk out of dark moments is that you stop walking into them. So-called dark moments cannot be separated from who and what you think you are in those moments; We cannot separate a dark moment from the unconscious resistance to that moment; What we call a dark moment cannot be separated from the level of consciousness that meets and reacts to that moment...

Topic: Welcome This True View and Awaken a Whole New You (2/10/21 Classroom Talk)

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...

Classroom Talk: 2/10/2021 - Our love for what is Right, Bright, and True is meant - in part - to be purified by our willingness to walk into the indwelling Light of a perfectly truthful awareness. The other half of this process requires our willingness to walk away from any part of us that we can see - by this same Light - is untrue...

Student Talks: 1/1/2021 - Key Lesson: The love that we realize in our heart for God is as un-measurable as God's love itself because they are secretly one and the same love. And herein lies what is perhaps Love's greatest mystery: the lover and the beloved do not find one another: they are each other.

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...

Topic: How to Welcome Every Moment of Life (Even When It's One You Don't Want!) (6/7/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: How to Welcome Every Moment of Life (Even When It's One You Don't Want!) (6/7/20 Classroom Talk)