Topics Covered: Setting out on the spiritual path is not about achieving a result. We want to place ourselves on a path where there is a never-ending possibility of discovery and realization; At their root all negative states are connected to the fear of death. Not only the death of the physical body, but also the death of a cherished sense of self; An epiphany is the revelation of an understanding...

Topics Covered: All true teachings show us that we are on this planet as human beings for a purpose that is already laid out for us; When you do not know what to do with your own life, it is almost guaranteed that someone will show up to tell you; Either our lives bring us into relationship with something broader or we're wasting our time with what we call "our business"...

Topics Covered: Because most people don't really understand the nature of time, they also don't know anything about timelessness; As a result of imagining wholeness in a time to come, we resist everything in life that seems to get in the way of that imagined wholeness; When we become identified with anything, we are at that point stalked and threatened by psychological time...

Topics Covered: The moments in our lives that have been the most valuable have been those that reveal something to us that we had never seen before, where we are suddenly transported into another order of awareness; Everything that we will ever need to know about the spiritual life is right in front of our eyes twenty-four hours per day. There is a level of life that we are a part of...

Student Talks: 10/9/2020 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Any form of (psychological) suffering that looks back into the past for its "cause" -- or to the future, in the hope of some imagined freedom to come -- isn't just useless, it's wasted. Part 2: Here is the real "secret" of starting over: No moment in life can be any newer than we are willing...

Topics Covered: The reason we don't change is because of the reasons that we have for why we don't change; Staring over doesn't require adding something to yourself, but instead laying down what is presently interfering with the new start; There can be no negative reaction to any given moment without there being resistance to that moment. Negativity is the bitter fruit of...

Topics Covered: We realize what is timeless by dying to the nature that is in time; Thought is time; Timelessness holds all of us; Reactions belong to a part of us, but are not the whole of us; If you change, all of consciousness changes; The right to be present cannot be stolen from you; Remembering is entering into an order of memory that already exists; True helplessness is seeing...

You must learn to think of relationship as a mirror; Something in us is afraid of seeing deeply into our pain; The more I don't want something and avoid it, the more complicit I am in its continuity; You actually have seen the truth, but you just don't want to see it; The dreamer cannot change the dream; There's no fear in a fact; The work slows down thought; Thought can't help you...

Topics covered: The first stirring of your essence; Christ represents uncreated divinity; Waking up is being put in the place where the branch meets the vine; Time is a creation of the eternal, that which has no time; What we think of as passing time is actually our momentary awareness of time; Identification with reaction creates passing time; Reactions keep reincarnation in place....

Topics Covered: We define things as being either in the past or the present, but real time encompasses both; Humans have a unique capacity to identify with thought and its pleasing sensations; You are never outside of the whole of time; Presence ends sleep; The difference between scripture and a living school; Humans are instruments of a larger body; Your past is currently an impediment but is...

Despite our resistance to it, no unwanted moment in passing time -- in and of itself -- is ever "wrong", or "out of place." Our incomplete understanding of the reason for its appearance not only tends to color such moments "dark," but our unconscious identification with this false conclusion then acts to drag us down into that same imagined darkness.