Student Talks: 1/19/2024 - Key Lesson: The greatest possibility for acquiring the Divine energy required to facilitate the transformation of oneself is found only in the moments of higher awareness that, itself, can only be realized in the same time and place of one's greatest resistance to that moment.

Topics covered: We cannot add anything to what we already are by pursuing what we want; There can be nothing more upside-down than people being unable to see that their life is being given to them; "Hope in things seen" is the same as hope in a time to come. Wanting (and not wanting) is always in time; There is a wisdom that transcends desire; Whatever state you find yourself in...

Topics Covered: The world itself is not upside-down. It is the way we see the world that makes it seem upside-down. What is upside-down is a consciousness that only sees what it wants; We are always given everything that we need to be whole, but we are unhappy because we can't see and therefore don't experience that fact; The purpose of your existence cannot be imagined...

Student Talks: 1/13/2023 - Key Lesson: To identify with even the brightest star is to lose sight of the boundless heavens within which it shines... without whose vast tracts of darkness would no celestial light be seen.

Topics Covered: We are dependent upon any condition that we think will grant us independence. That is a recipe for fear; True independence can be found within the very feeling of impermanence that a part of us fears; Our longing for freedom belongs to another order of consciousness that is already free. To long for something is to want to close the distance between ourselves...

Money seems to always be an issue for me. It doesn't matter if I have a little or a lot - there never seems to be enough for what I want to feel happy and secure. Money matters have been central to almost every important decision I've made in life. If I knew I'd have enough to provide for my family's needs, I wouldn't have to keep a job that I hate, I could get out of debt, and start thinking...

I long to fly... And I've had this feeling since I was small. Not in a plane, but in-person to experience the open skies, wind in my face, clouds beneath me, free to go where I will. It's not like I picture myself a "superhero" or something like that...just the incredible urge to leap and soar above the world. When it's windy I like to go outside and wait to be lifted upward...but nothing happ...

I've seen that the wrong use of my attention can aggravate almost any problem. How do I learn to use my attention correctly so that things begin to change for the better in my life?...

You often speak about finding the freedom to live the way we want, and that it's all an interior story. Is there a way to know how free we really are?...

My life seems like an endless string of thoughts by which I know myself. I wonder if it's really even possible to live a thought-free life. How do I start knowing without thinking?...

Student Talks: 1/12/2024 - Key Lesson: Any form of painful demand -- whether on others, or upon ourselves -- is born of unconscious attachment; it is proof of a level of consciousness that would rather cling to what has been, than allow real Life to help us see our True Self is not only the living incarnation of each new moment, but the eyes that see it take birth.