Classroom Talk: 10/1/2023 - The real reason life feels like it's so full of hard choices that we have to make is because, in our spiritual sleep -- and in the dreams we dream therein -- we stand between a self-created "rock and a hard place": a perpetual captive of the unconscious conflict born of struggling -- in vain -- to protect what we first imagined we must have to be free...from its unseen opposite: an equally imagined fear... that we might lose it.

Classroom Talk: 9/23/2023 - Inner joy can't be separated from a deep sense of gratitude that is, in turn, inseparable from a mind at peace with itself; it knows, without thought, that everything is in its right place -- being revealed at the right time.

Classroom Talk: 11/6/2022 - Real Life is a miracle unfolding in slow motion. The eyes that can see this truth are those no longer blinded by the nature of thought whose sleight-of-hand creates and sustains the illusion of passing time; to see things as they are is to be what we are: travelers through a time and realm whose peace passes all understanding.

Classroom Talk: 9/20/2020 - True spiritual healing is never the result of an "achievement" one celebrates as such; it's always a very personal, and often painful moment of consciously realizing the extent of one's weakness. Yet, paradoxically, in the ensuing humility is a victory, but not our own; for now, we have gleaned a little understanding...