Topic: Wake Up and Walk Out of the Painful World of Endless Wanting (3/3/21 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 3/3/2021 - The mind, emptied of its attachments, fears nothing, while the mind full of wanting and not wanting spends all of its time afraid of... everything.

Topic: How to Walk Out of the Haunted House of Endless Wants (11/11/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 11/11/2020 - Here's the first step in quieting the mind: SEE the fact that if we weren't always talking to ourselves about what we want, or don't want... that most of what troubles us would just disappear on its own!

Student Talks: 4/24/2020 - Key Lesson: It's NEVER life's lessons themselves that are painful: the real problem, which is the same as the reason why we groan in these moments -- instead of grow from them -- is that there's something in our present level of consciousness that does NOT want that lesson!

Topic: Turn Life's "Stirring” Moments Into the Light That Sets You Free (7/14/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Turn Life's "Stirring” Moments Into the Light That Sets You Free (7/14/19 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 4/14/2024 - If -- by the light of remembering and considering what is Timeless, Holy, and True -- the heart is warmed and gradually enflamed, then the following must be true, even if yet to be seen: within us must dwell some sort of celestial kindling; what else can explain how such a flame is created, let alone serve as a light in the darkness of the soul... uniting the twain, making of them as one.

Classroom Talk: 12/31/2023 - Just as the eyes that see the sun cannot understand its light by which they behold the shape and beauty of all things, neither can the heart understand the love that calls it to know and embrace all things. Eye and heart are creatures in time, but Light and Love are not. Even so, they meet; in their union is the mystery, miracle, and fulfillment of our yet realized Divine possibility.

Classroom Talk: 9/22/2023 - To be identified with even the most elegant description of the Divine is to prolong the suffering born of being separated from Its Light: there is more joy in a single drop of water on the tongue of a man in the desert than will ever be found in a whole library of books on the nature of streams, rivers, and the raindrops that fall to fill them.