Topics covered: A poet could write for decades about an impression, yet still not come close to the totality of the revelation; You are like the fish in the ocean seeking the water. You are already within what you long for; The more you give your attention to something, the more you discover about yourself through that relationship; The Vine is infinite relative to the branch, and the branch is infinite relative to the fruit.

Topics covered: The keys to the peace that passes all understanding cannot be found with thought; Peace for people now is predicated upon whether or not they get what they want; Real peace is found in a conscious relationship with life, a life that is greater than the sum of its parts; When you truly understand the nature of real peace, it can never be taken from you. The mind's idea of...

Topics covered: You are meant to be the master of your interior house, which is a responsibility that you've been given as a gift by the Divine; The spiritual path is not about arriving somewhere imagined or earning a reward. What we are after is entering into a new, higher relationship with life that already exists; Until you build on a foundation that is true, everything that you build will be shaky.

Topics covered: Something calls to you all the time to establish and strengthen a relationship with another order of consciousness. This communication sends message after message in order to bridge the worlds within you; When you hear something true that stirs you, do not let it pass by without attempting to draw closer to it; Until you see the way you are without hiding from the revelation, you will remain as you are.

You must learn to think of relationship as a mirror; Something in us is afraid of seeing deeply into our pain; The more I don't want something and avoid it, the more complicit I am in its continuity; You actually have seen the truth, but you just don't want to see it; The dreamer cannot change the dream; There's no fear in a fact; The work slows down thought; Thought can't help you...

Topics covered: Judgment is a defensive act; Your attention is a type of a muscle that needs to be worked out; There is an unseen relationship between my identity and parts of myself that I'm unconscious to; The sense of I is always passive to what reconciles it; 99% of the time that you use the word I it is not True I speaking; Unconsciousness consumes itself, like a black hole; You can't dev...

'If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas:' The only reason that we agree to be in a relationship with any punishing thought or feeling is because -- each time -- we become so immediately identified with not wanting to feel its painful presence that we keep forgetting to remember -- and to practice -- this one spiritual fact that can free us from all dark states: it's in our power to k...

Topics covered: How should we deal with internal storms and nagging thoughts; I have to listen to these talks many times and am worried that I'm slow; My religious conditioning causes me to have disturbing dreams; Why do I keep choosing work situations that cause me so much stress; I'm conflicted over my relationship with my mother; I feel the presence of loved ones who have passed away; I rea...

Topics covered: When you really understand something you understand it from the tips of your toes to the top of your head; Real life is indescribable by the mind -- it's a living relationship; The root cause of negativity is resistance; Seeing the connectedness of all things is the source of common sense; We don't know the proper feeling of who and what we really are; In the present moment the...

Classroom Talk: 3/10/2019 - Part 1: For those willing to see it... the proof of our still consensual, self-compromising relationship with a lower level of consciousness is self-evident: after all, one of the only things that seems to be growing stronger in us - day by day - is the ease with which we're willing to excuse, or otherwise explain away some weakness...

Topics covered: Talks in the Pines 2017 "Seeds of the Soul"; Helping an addicted loved one; Are there spirits that can prevent material success; My family has expectations of me; I was in an abusive relationship and am afraid to love again; Is knowing yourself required before you can surrender; False impressions of myself; What to do when others make poor choices; Bogged down by guilt; Mistrus...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of September 11, 2017. We cannot see with our physical eyes the being of things; the infinite and intricate relationship of ineffable forces that converge to create what they will. But, within us dwells -- even as we dwell within it -- the Being of all beings... Seeing and knowing itself effortlessly, in a moment-to-moment immaculate perception.