Topics covered: The meaning of life cannot be known through any thought that we will have about it. We do not know the meaning of life, but we think we do; The meaning of life is unknowable to any part of our consciousness that strives to assess the moment through its knowledge; The meaning of life is not found in knowledge. It is found in being. The meaning of life is immediately perceptible or it isn't.

Classroom Talk: 6/7/2023 - Here's the real reason why talking to ourselves about whatever is considered to be the cause of that "conversation" in our head is so exhausting: it's very hard work to make something (so big) out of what really amounts to nothing.

Topics covered: It requires faith to change what we give our attention to; Faith in its earliest form is awareness of another order of being and therefore another order of time; That which you seek already exists within you, and can only be realized through your attention, so that you might enter into relationship with higher principles; Everything that seems to obscure the way is part of the way...

Topics Covered: Analyzing our thoughts cannot do one thing to change the nature of the consciousness that those thoughts are coming out of; Every time that you take part in a lie, your soul cries; We have almost no awareness of how deep runs this level of consciousness that lies to protect itself from what it imagines has happened to it that threatens its identity; There can't be a lie without...

Classroom Talk: 7/14/2021 - Whoever lies... cries; and not just in that moment, but in every moment thereafter; as when, by fear, we feel compelled not just to defend some past self-compromising choice... but also because we continue to participate in an unconscious act that's not only set against our own best interests... but, ultimately, against the Good of all.

Topics Covered: We are rendered powerless any time that we get caught up in an interior dialog. Most people do not know how much time they spend talking to themselves; As goes my attention, so comes my experience. Attention connects us to whatever it has landed on; We believe that talking to ourselves is the way in which we bring an end to pain. But that dialog is part of being...

Classroom Talk: 7/28/2019 - One of the great, unseen contradictions in our life is that we can so easily "talk ourselves" into acting against our own best interests. If anything deserves our dedicated spiritual study then, surely, it must be how we can be deceived into jumping into a pit that we dug for ourselves!