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...

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...

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...