Classroom Talk: 4/9/2003 - No one would ever hope to cause another pain who sees that he is the first one to experience his own wish.

Student Talks: 12/12/2025 - What you understand, you command; what you don’t understand commands you.

 

 

Whenever you try to protect yourself from any form of fear, it is only fear that you protect. Only fear can make you into what you don't want to be.

When it comes to fear, anxiety or any other kind of negative state, we can learn to observe and bear the state that is being revealed so that a new understanding of the moment can begin to dawn within us.

If we can't give the whole of our attention to someone -- or, for that matter, to any moment -- then we can't listen. If we can't listen, we can't possibly hear the whole story. And if we can't hear the whole story, then how can we ever hope to understand, let alone realize our actual role in it.

Classroom Talk: 2/2/2022 - Any part of us that wants to give us a good reason why we are stuck somewhere in life is secretly a partner in that pain it first protests, and then seems to resist. To see the truth of this insight sets the stage for how to never feel stuck again.

Topics covered: Resistance arises from fear of an identity being threatened; We are born into a world of comparison which causes illusions and identifications; Each event we identify with strengthens the illusion of identification; We are meant to enter into a relationship with another order of consciousness; Fear arises when we challenge a belief; There is no psychological fear without negati...

Topics covered: You live in a world you can’t see. And the world you do see is like looking through binoculars from the wrong end; Each moment is inevitable. There is not one thing any of us can do to change the moment as it is taking place; The moment is not what you think the moment is -- it is an irrevocable, infinite intersection and interaction between all that exists...

Topics covered: "I am" when I can see; "We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them, but by waiting for them." -- Simone Weil; Everything outside of us seems separate because we presently we through eyes that either want or don't want what they see; "The flapping of the wings of a butterfly can be felt on the other side of the world." -- Chinese Proverb

Topics covered: The hope of this world rests in innocence. No innocence, no goodness. No goodness, nothing good, and when there's nothing good there's only that which pretends to be good; It is inevitable that there will be suffering each time you try to hide from the truth of yourself; A real man or woman never blames anything or anyone else for his or her experience of life.

Topics covered: Perception of events rather than facts of events; Sense of self that is dependent on what others think; Fear stemming from protecting identities that come and go with changing conditions; Gaining true alignment through revelations; Understanding the purpose of what is taking place in a moment; Standing at the center of creation; How fear guides life experiences; Cultivating the...

Classroom Talk: 11/26/2004 - Feeling sorry for yourself is like slipping off a boat at sea and, just as you're falling into the waters, grabbing the anchor to take with you so as to have something you can cling to in your time of trouble!