Student Talks: 10/6/2023 - Key Lesson: 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.

Topics covered: Every thought that you have about yourself, and what you should do to improve your place in life, is a waste; You cannot complete the moment without at the same time completing yourself. They are one and the same thing; If you keep repeating the same experience, it means that you have not really learned the lesson that comes with the experience. Spiritual lessons ride in on the back of events...

Topics covered: Any moment of seeing a truth changes the nature of the seer; You really give something up when you have nothing to replace it; When you really understand something, it is a moment of something new being born out of something that has come to an end; The acronym "FBRS" from the doctor story stands for "Fixed By Resistance Syndrome"; When you don't want a condition...

Topics covered: Any day that goes by without see something new about yourself is a wasted day; You cannot be receptive to new impressions when you are talking to yourself. But it is not really YOU that is in engaged in the conversation; Talking to yourself is the activity of a divided mind that is trying to reconcile the conflict that it created in itself; Anything that engages in a conversation about "what if?"...

Topic: Go Beyond the Invisible Prison of (Psychological) Pain (Classroom Talk 5/31/23)

Topics covered: One of the miracles of genuine interior work is that we come to no longer be afraid of our own pain; Every moment contains within it a revelation of the consciousness that you have entered into the moment with; We have to understand what it means to not just meet the psychological pain, but to go beyond it; We end up in more psychological pain every time we avoid that kind of pain...

Classroom Talk: 5/31/2023 - Part1: The fear of pain, the pain of fear: See how they feed one another... And (your) liberation draws near. Part 2: Just as the threshold of a house is recognized as the entrance into it, so should our pain be seen, and understood, in a similar light... for its appearance tells the same story, only in spiritual terms: not only (is it) a doorway into an increasingly fearless...

Student Talks: 11/11/2022 - Key Lesson: 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.

Topics covered: There is a peace that comes with any truthful impression that stands the test of time; "Wisdom is the principal thing. Therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting, get understanding." -- Proverbs, Old Testament; The source of every kind of psychological suffering is an individual's present level of understanding; The moment you do not understand is not something to fear...

Topic: Step Into the Invisible Stream of Real Life and Be Set Free (Classroom Talk 9/21/22)

Topics covered: The keys to the peace that passes all understanding cannot be found with thought; Peace for people now is predicated upon whether or not they get what they want; Real peace is found in a conscious relationship with life, a life that is greater than the sum of its parts; When you truly understand the nature of real peace, it can never be taken from you. The mind's idea of...

Classroom Talk: 9/21/2022 - Here is the real "secret" of starting over: No moment in life can be any newer than we are willing to be... that is, assuming we continuously agree to step -- consciously -- into its timeless stream.