Topics covered: Spiritual parables and symbols are intended to convey celestial principles that words cannot explain; One of the chief deceptions that we fall for is that something is missing from our lives, and that we will be able to acquire it in a time to come. As a result, we don't want anything that gets in the way of that ambition; We spend our lives trying to possess what we perceive to be good, and avoid anything that is judged to be bad.

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...

Topics Covered: All relationships awaken us to aspects of our consciousness that we could not be aware of without those relationships; It is our discoveries that change us because they bring us into another order of reality that is already within, waiting to be discovered. What we really discover, in any kind of discovery, is ourselves; We would not have awareness of an event unless it were...

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...