Growing is natural. Our bodies grow by themselves. Our psychologies change as well, mirroring the growth of our physical body. And as we grow physiologically, a psychology is necessary to adapt to the desires of our growing physical bodies. We tend to equate growing physically with psychological, spiritual growth. But what really takes place is, with the passage of time, our psychologies simpl...

Only what we are able to see as true within and about ourselves -- that true spiritual self-knowledge born of inner revelation -- is of any real use to us. The rest, whatever one imagines or intellectualizes is useless... sometimes worse.

Beauty is more than just the experience of a unity greater than thought can measure; beauty gives evidence -- through our awareness of its expression -- that no observer exists apart from what is observed.

Student Talks: 4/28/2023 - Key Lesson: Once we realize that living within the limits of the known is the same as the limitation of our spiritual possibilities, there is no recourse other than to depart the safety of all that we have been... in favor of discovering all that we're created to be.

Topics covered: Why do people forget what brought them here and then subsequently stray; The mind is neverendingly processing everything that comes into it; A spiritual school represents a magnetic center that you don't have yet; Resistance is negative affection; You are not the waves of life, you are the stillness that they move through.

When it comes to your sense of being a captive in life, held helpless there by conditions beyond your control, you may take heart in this spiritual fact -- but only if you follow it all the way to your freedom: a deep illusion has no more reality to it than does a shallow one!

There can be no lasting freedom from any psychological suffering... other than to first illuminate the unconscious condition responsible for it, and then to undertake the dedicated interior work it takes to withdraw from that relationship.

Classroom Talk: 2/5/2020 -Part 1: Effortless contentment appears as unconscious resistance -- along with its "partner in conflict" -- involuntary insistence, disappears. Part 2: Spiritual freedom is not found by avoiding what disturbs us, but rather by the deliberate interior work of illuminating whatever still dwells in the dark of us that is...

The spiritual body that alone can stand the buffeting of unconscious opposing forces -- that ultimately learns to harness them for its own development -- is further developed each time we struggle, as needed, to remember that nothing in this world (or the next) has the right to use our own attention against us.

Self-realization is the same as the conscious negation of any form of identification; (it is) inseparable from a higher awareness that reveals what no so-called "spiritual thinking" can see, let alone understand as true: no matter how pleasurable or painful, elevated or excruciating may be any conditional, temporary  sense of self... it is not who you are.

Topics covered:  Spiritual wisdom is in discovering the mastery of God. Within us lives this mastery; Every time someone does not agree with you, you experience the fear of death. Anxiety is the avoidance of the fear of death. Anger hides the fear of death; Behind every form of psychological resistance is the fear of death.

Student Talks: 10/21/2022 - Key Lesson: We are never judged for whatever may be our present degree of spiritual blindness. Only when we turn a blind eye to a truth Life asks us to see about ourselves do we unknowingly judge ourselves, and where the suffering that follows is the result of having looked away.