Student Talks: 11/12/2021 - Key Lesson: We must make -- and keep -- a special place within us for what we love; otherwise, our heart becomes an overnight motel filled with the visitations of a thousand fickle lovers... not one of which is capable of loving anything other than itself.

Topics Covered: It is destructive to hate another human being. It is destructive to be afraid. It is destructive to rush, to be anxious, to worry; The unconscious mind is forever bringing up something that it can identify with; The realization of a new possibility is the same as becoming aware of an old limitation; What determines our possibilities in any given moment is what...

Classroom Talk: 11/7/2021 - We must make -- and keep -- a special place within us for what we love; otherwise, our heart becomes an overnight motel filled with the visitations of a thousand fickle lovers... not one of which is capable of loving anything other than itself.

Topic: Bringing Silence to a Noisy Mind that Won't Stop Talking to Itself (10/20/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: Where does an inner dialog get its authority over us? It starts with our unconscious consent to identify with those thoughts; The root of self-talk begins with judgment; Self-talk is inseparable from the moment of conflict where something happens and it is interpreted as a threat to who I think I am and what I'm identified with; No self-talk starts without being triggered...

Classroom Talk: 10/20/2021 - Part 1: The sure way to guarantee that any suffering continues unabated is to keep talking to yourself about it! Part 2: The more we talk to ourselves about how we need to make some real change in our life, the less we see how consoling ourselves with ideas for a brighter tomorrow keeps us from realizing a simple truth...

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...