Which would you rather have: a treasure room that is filled with an old potato, a worn-out shoe, and a dented can of Spam... or a room filled with precious stones, rare silks, and a chest of gold? It seems like a silly question, and yet... why do you choose a mind and heart filled with dark thoughts, anxiety, anger, and self-doubt when you could have a mind and heart...

Student Talks: 12/2/2022 - Key Lesson: Reactions are not actions, any more than an echo is the cause of its own sound... which means: we cannot escape moments we resist, any more than it's possible to outrun our own shadow.

Topics covered: Life contains a mystery that you're drawn to -- it's the mystery of yourself; Agape is a type of love connected to giving yourself up as a higher form of sacrifice for the love of another. It doesn't add something to you, it costs you something - only then do you find yourself being given something in return you couldn't have received any other way...

Student Talks: 5/27/2022 - Key Lesson: Part 1 – That we should search only our own conscience for confirmation of what is good and true, this is the best definition of integrity. For that which is good and true is not social in nature, but spiritual in need and in deed. Part 2: Here is an enigma wrapped in a paradox: we cannot buy the love of the Divine; no good deed can produce the Presence...

Topics covered: The original meaning of the word "profitable" pertains to the concept of "ascending." And the original meaning of the word "sin" pertains to "missing the mark"; There is not one moment of the day that you are not experiencing what something in you loves, both on the so-called positive side and the so-called negative side; Only love makes us an authentically profitable...

Student Talks: 2/25/2022 - Key Lesson: Before we can see that "love is the answer" we must learn to be present to -- aware of -- and above all else willing to go to the heart of the one question that life never stops asking us in 10,000 ways, each and every day.

Topics covered: The truest answer to any question that life asks is not an intellectual answer; Every discovery we make in the world around us is really a discovery of the world within us; We are drawn to nature because the qualities in nature are first and foremost already existing within consciousness. Everything nature will ever show us is already a part of our True Self...

Topics Covered: Any idea about what it means to be whole is a frature in our consciousness; Every moment is an "assistant coach" working with the Divine; Real learning is not through the intellect but through integration, realization and revelation; Anything that is passive does not want to be disturbed; Resistance is part of the revelation of the moment; Our experience cannot...