Topics covered: Our present level of consciousness believes it is natural and wise to not-want what we are experiencing; The sensation of life is not life. Believing that sensation is life is a trap perpetuated by a level of consciousness that pursues sensations that it is already familiar with because it produces a familiar sense of self; You don't need to imagine what it is like to be spiritual, because -- when you remember...

We are not being called to be more than we are, let alone to judge ourselves when we see we have missed the mark; rather, we are here to discover ALL that we are being given, and how - if we dare accept this unimaginable gift - we will see it multiplied a hundredfold.

Topics covered: New Year's resolutions always revolve around wanting to keep the so-called "good" parts of what I call "me," and not-wanting what I call the "bad" parts; If you want to have a new life, you cannot bring old wants along with you; There is an innate longing to be in relationship with what cannot be expressed in words; True spiritual teachings are not recognizable by the consciousness that has faith only in things seen...

Topics covered: The cost of freedom is letting go of the idea that there is a "you" that is going to find freedom in a time to come; It is not life that is hard, but there is something in us that has hardened itself against life; Your mind will never be able to take you past the point that it cannot go, but your mind can understand that fact; Every desire has a corresponding identity attached to it...

Topics covered: The consciousness that is the present state of humanity keeps trying, in vain, to create a kingdom of heaven for itself; When we take the thought to be the thing, then we have belief in the thought; People who act cruelly are themselves acting from an inner cause that they know nothing about; The more you want something or someone, the more that thing or person will resist you...

Topics covered: There is no condition outside of yourself that is responsible for your negative reactions; What you want is presently the most important thing in your life. But the truly most important thing that you have been given is your attention; As goes your attention, so comes your experience. As goes your experience, so comes your sense of self...

Topics covered: You cannot experience life in a new way unless you first SEE life in a new way; You cannot separate your sense of self from what you are attending to in any given moment; When you have your attention on something you don't want, then you will also have an experience that you don't want; The only reason that you get caught in any unwanted experience is because you...

Topics covered: Plans to escape from unhappiness come from a consciousness that is arranging events for the very purpose of making you unhappy; Beauty is not something that a human being imagines. Beauty is a relationship with reality that already exists in consciousness waiting to be revealed; When you really see something, then all questions about what you...

Topics covered: There is a ceaseless exchange between what is celestial and what is common, and to be where that exchange takes place is everything; Human beings are always running and pushing so that they can get everything they need in order to rest. That day will never come for that divided consciousness; Your humiliation is your salvation. "Humility" may be the least loved word in the world today.

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!

Topics covered: The reason the world is the way it is, is because we who are the world are responsible for the world we experience; The 'I' used to address some conflict it experiences is one and the same thing as the conflict it addresses; This work is about what happens when a man or a woman no longer wants to delay the inevitable discovery that they are at war again; Take no thought for tomorrow...