Topic: Start Tipping the Scales in Favor of Your Spiritual Success (5/19/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: This world cannot answer what the soul seeks in order to know itself; The only times we resolve to make a request of God is when we are troubled; Because we think we see the source of our suffering with clarity, we also think we see with clarity the solution to it; We need true self-knowledge, if we're willing to receive it; The lower level of consciousness that we presently...

Classroom Talk: 5/19/2021 - How could we ever know even the smallest thing about the possibility of Unconditional Love -- that perfectly still, undivided Divine center-point from out of which creation itself comes into existence -- were it not for our gift of being able to bear witness to the union of the opposites within us...

Topic: The Sure Cure for Chronic Negativity (2/23/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: The Sure Cure for Chronic Negativity (2/23/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: The Sure Cure for Chronic Negativity (2/23/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 2/23/2020 - The more (we) mistakenly open a door to any negative reaction that comes knock-knock-knocking there, the more it will come back around - bringing "relatives" with it - until there's neither place nor peace left in our Home that we can call our own.

Classroom Talk: 1/22/2020 - If our contentment - our joy in life - doesn't start somewhere deep and untouchable within us, as does the beauty of a rose begin before it flowers, then our happiness is "in and of this world": (it is) a creation of passing time that will - as must all things that live in time - wilt and wither away.

You're not comfortable with your suffering; We're locked into a mind of the opposites; My senses receive what is put into me; Psychologically I am a "want" machine; The pain you're in is the road to your perfection; Life keeps bringing you right back to the same place; You came here because you wanted an answer to your pain; Anticipation is always memory...

There is always something talking to us, and we don't know better than to talk back to it. The next time you find yourself caught in negative dark dialog, try to see that it doesn't exist without a corresponding so-called positive aspect, promising the end of dark days and a brighter future. In that awareness you stand in the middle as a point of observation, as opposed to...

We have a nature that thinks about itself -- a nature that weighs itself on a scale that our culture has created and our thoughts have unconsciously adopted. Unexamined, this mind is a virtual torture device, keeping us locked within its own limitations. In the absence of practical thought (the only right capacity of the mind), there is always some painful reaction...

Student Talks: 8/25/2019 - Key Lesson: A house divided can't stand, and... it can not stand itself.