Classroom Talk: 6/21/2023 - Spiritual ignorance is like the deep darkness of a moonless night; and though it has no substance of its own, it not only obscures the path that leads back home, but ensures we will walk right by it... each time and place it makes its momentary appearance.

Student Talks: 10/28/2022 - Key Lesson: Part 1: There is no map to the Kingdom of Heaven that isn't out of date the moment we set out to follow it. Part 2: Consider the one most free who has learned to see, even in adversity, the Good... whose unfailing Light shines on even in the darkest night.

Student Talks: 8/19/2022 - Key Lesson: The imagined time of "rest" we seek is, in fact, the same as an invisible burr beneath our saddle, as whatever form of comfort it is that still eludes us doesn't exist without some corresponding sense of discomfort that keeps spurring us on.

Classroom Talk: 12/8/2021 - Truthful ideas never need to be validated by others; they neither fear close scrutiny, nor avoid the light of any moment that calls for it. False ideas can never stand alone; they tremble whenever life questions their intelligence, mistaking the sudden onset of painful resistance as proof of their strength.

Classroom Talk: 11/3/2021 - Part 1: Every wise saying that stirs the heart, or helps illuminate the mind, is a kind of Divine seed: each speaks in its own tongue of some timeless chapter and verse, but always hinting of -- and silently pointing to -- the Book of Truth from which it has come. Part 2: Wisdom never gets old because its true nature is timeless; knowledge is...

Classroom Talk: 10/27/2021 - The more we work to remember this one Truth -- especially when facing a fear about what may come to pass -- that everything in this world of passing time is granted, at best, but a temporary stay... the more certainly will we enter into, and stand within a Divine sheltering awareness that never dies.

Classroom Talk: 8/11/2021 - Part 1: Until we can be aware of -- present to -- the fact that the Light of the Divine never leaves us -- even should we find ourselves full of darkness -- we can never really understand the appearance and the purpose of any fearful negative state, let alone how it's possible to die to it... and to the "fearful self," as well. Part 2: There is no possibility of freeing...

Classroom Talk: 1/20/2021 - In this world, there are three paths by which one carves out his or her destiny: cunning, industry, or love of truth. The "crafty" ones inevitably trap themselves. And while industry is good... it is, at best, conditional; all things created are subject to the passage -- and ravages -- of time. Love of truth, on the other hand...

Classroom Talk: 12/30/2020 - No one who loves the Divine -- who embraces the truth -- need ever fear what life brings down the road; remember: the effects of passing time must, necessarily, act upon what is created; that's what time does. But within us lives something Timeless, and its living Light can't be diminished or darkened by the...

Student Talks: 7/10/2020 - Key Lesson: The only reason we live in the shadow of any fear or sorrow -- let alone agree to suffer the dark reactions that justify such self-limitation -- is for the absence of a Divine Light that would show us -- if we would only dare step into it -- that the threat behind any unwanted moment is as unreal as...

Student Talks: 2/21/2020 - Key Lesson: We are never closer to realizing the next level of our own higher possibilities than when, by the light of a new awareness we see some old "darkness" within us, and then agree that we can no longer be that which we have been.