Topics covered: Freedom is the unconditional acceptance of the experience of yourself as you are in the moment; Transformation is not a process that involves a destination. Transformation is a process of conversion; Our consciousness cannot see by itself. In order to see itself it needs the light that dwells in the darkness; The purpose of inner work is to change your relationship with your own consciousness.

Student Talks: 10/28/2022 - Key Lesson: Part 1: There is no map to the Kingdom of Heaven that isn't out of date the moment we set out to follow it.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.

Topics covered: There are three forces that are essential in the action of creation: an active force, a passive force, and a reconciling force; Is there any painful moment in our lives that is not preceded by resistance to something?; There can't be resistance without something in our consciousness that describes the moment and blames its pain on something outside of itself.

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.

Topics covered: My reaction to what I don't want from life validates my pain; The world we see isn't the problem. The problem is the way we see the world around us and ourselves within in it; I'm in an endless struggle with the world because I am in opposition to anything that opposes my will and what my idea of life is, and what I'm supposed to get from it; Try to be someone...

Topics Covered: Where do useless thoughts come from? Useless thoughts are the offspring of false, failed ideas. The outcome of continuing to follow a failed idea is a failed result; Our best ideas about what it means to be strong have proven to be useless; An example of a false idea is that finding a way to comfort yourself is the same as being content with yourself...

Topics Covered: There is no end to what there is discover about yourself. There are untold riches buried within; All exploration is self-exploration, and it doesn't matter in what world the exploration is done; Only by experience can you prove to yourself that within you awaits everything you will ever discover is true about you; Within wisdom is more wisdom. Within everything we discover...

Topics Covered: Our experience of life is intended to be an education so that we learn things we didn't know about ourselves the moment before; If we meet life caught up in a stream of thought, then there is no chance of being open enough to receive impressions; To see all there is means to be present to ourselves and unafraid because we stand in the shelter of the awareness that...

Topics Covered: We have become accustomed to caving in at the onset of anything that seems to threaten us, believing fear's interpretation of the moment; Who you really are is not separate from the meaning of the moment, and therefore never needs to ask, "What does this moment mean for me?"; All forms of psychological fear are useless suffering; Why is it that fearful...

Topics Covered: There is no real authority outside of your relationship with the Divine; A longing for the Divine is the need to close the distance between yourself and the Divine; It is impossible to complete ourselves as we imagine in the world of passing time; Time turns worldly ambitions into pain. "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added unto you...

Topics Covered: Who you really are is already complete; There is a part of us that never ceases trying to complete itself through what it imagines will do it. That nature has an insatiable appetite that never stops feeding itself; Trying to complete yourself through answering a fear does nothing but strengthen the fear that you will never be able to complete yourself unless conditions...

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...