Topics covered: We are always in a struggle of some kind, hoping that our struggle will bring an end to all struggles. But one who struggles in the field of the opposites struggles in vain; There is a level of consciousness from which you can see with great clarity that left and right, up and down, right and wrong are not separate but always appear together; The consciousness that opposes life through negative...

Student Talks: 5/5/2023 - Key Lesson: 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.

Topics covered:There is no struggle in seeing. The struggle is in trying to get life to conform to what something in you wants to see, and avoid what it doesn't want to see; The problem is not what is seen. What creates the problem is the nature that is seeing; Within the sleeping human consciousness, there is something that is already awake, and its presence in that consciousness produces momentary glimpses...

Student Talks: 1/13/2023 - Key Lesson: 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.

Topics covered: The parable of the Prodigal Son is a story about our never-ending relationship with the Divine Creator. There is no end to that journey; We are not moving through time and events. Time and events are moving through us, and it all takes place first of all within consciousness. Events do not unfold outside of you; The Kingdom of Heaven is not found outside of you...

Student Talks: 11/25/2022 - Key Lesson: 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.

Topics covered: To understand something completely means to realize it with your mind, heart and body; Every true teaching points to the following fact in one way or another: Unless a person gives up his life, he will not find what his heart really wants; "The first shall be last, and the last shall be first." The personality that is formed by the world and that forms the world it sees is currently the first...

Student Talks: 7/1/2022 - Key Lesson: 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...

Topics covered: To know myself requires being myself, and in the end, that is the whole journey. The end of the journey is knowing myself and the truth of myself in any given moment; You almost always forget the most important thing in any moment, which is to know that you exist; Your experience of any given moment is a result of what you serve. You receive what you serve, no exceptions...

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.