All of our life experiences have been trying to teach us a certain grand lesson: Liberation from our captive condition (whatever that may be in the moment) cannot come by further deliberating it. We can see the wisdom in doing nothing toward our own troubled thoughts and feelings when we realize that the only way not to be dragged under by these negative states is to stay...

Topic: Realize the Divine Purpose Behind Any Painful Human Relationship (7/7/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: There exists an unfolding revelation that allows you to take part in what releases you from a consciousness that previously limited you; The kind of inquiry that is required of an aspirant necessitates a distinct kind of honesty; Most of our conflict with others is born out of an unseen dependency upon images we have of ourselves; Growing up we were taught to protect...

Classroom Talk: 7/7/2021 - Seeing the Truth of ourselves -- the first requirement of being set free -- begins with our willingness to be -- as completely as possible -- the whole of that experience even when we'd rather be doing anything else!

Topic: Go Beyond Fear and Sorrow By Being All That You Are (2/3/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: The extent to which something in us judges ourselves and others seems to prove to us the extent to which we are in the right; We are not on the Earth to prove ourselves to anyone. Instead we are here to use the moments we are given to discover what is true about ourselves; Addictions are produced by identification with an unseen image from which an identity is...

Classroom Talk: 2/3/2021 - Refuse to weigh yourself by the values of this world, including what IT calls out as good, necessary, or true for you! Rather, weigh-in against the whole notion that your True Self can be measured by anyone, including yourself.

Topics Covered: When you find yourself surrounded by raging thoughts and feelings that are closing in on you, remember yourself with the understanding of "You go on without me," and watch those thoughts and feelings flow down the river; Our present level of consciousness is really just one level of being, one mansion in the great kingdom of existence...

Topics Covered: Any idea about what it means to be whole is a frature in our consciousness; Every moment is an "assistant coach" working with the Divine; Real learning is not through the intellect but through integration, realization and revelation; Anything that is passive does not want to be disturbed; Resistance is part of the revelation of the moment; Our experience cannot...

Classroom Talk: 6/3/2020 - Only those who agree to surrender themselves into the ceaseless revelation of Divine Love can realize the invisible labor of that all-encompassing Heart. But, to be clear: this indescribable order of love -- including its indisputable authority to "cast out all fear" -- can never be possessed; we can only strive to be as present...

There is a higher relationship that has nothing to do with anything personal at all. It is the realization of the existence of strength, of majestic beauty, of power... and that realization is inseparable from the consciousness in which it appears. And that consciousness isn't personal. It belongs to what is Divine in a human being and it is a gift of the Divine.

Topic: New Answers That End Old Fears, Worries, and the Feeling of Being Alone (3/29/20 Classroom Talk)