Whoever doesn’t know himself, suffers uselessly for the sake of ignorance. Whoever works to know himself, agrees to suffer for the sake of wisdom. Whoever becomes wise, slays the suffering born of ignorance...

Topics covered: It is wise to seek immortality because time defeats all other ambitions; The greatest prize hidden within our inner life is victory over death. Uncovering the treasure is a matter not of intellectual knowledge only, but of awareness, relationship, participation and understanding; The desert in spiritual stories represents the endless useless struggle to escape from conflict, not seeing that the attempt to escape is the perpetuation of the conflict.

Topics covered: The only time you're in trouble is when you aren't present to yourself; You don't know how dangerous it is to be living your life while psychologically asleep; The way you feel moment to moment is a direct result of what you value; Spirituality is a completely different sense of yourself that isn't connected to your past or future; Your life is new all the time; You have no gre...

All psychological suffering is born of unconscious resistance to life; it is the bitter fruit of the futile attempt to prove that our sense of self exists outside of the conditions that give rise to its revelation.

Is it the choices we make in the present moment that form our destiny, or has our future already been pre-determined? If it's up to me, how can I be certain that I'm making the best choices?...

Topic: Soul Seeing (1/22/17 Classroom Talk)...

Topic: Soul Seeing (1/22/17 Classroom Talk)...

How can the great truth that we reap what we sow be used to ensure the kind of success and limitless potential we are meant to realize in this life? How can we be certain that within us does exist this potential for a higher, limitless life of true success? Sometimes it seems like just a vain hope.

Part 1: Unconscious negative reactions feel intelligent because they are inseparable from some equally unconscious judgment that lends them their temporary "life." So that, in this manner, the more stress, anger, or pain we feel -- born of having identified with one of these dark reactions... the more falsely wise and alive we assume ourselves to be. Imagine that! Part 2: When it comes to...

The fortunate soul who, seeing with only one eye -- even it, barely half-open -- is, in fact, a virtual king in any realm where all of its citizens are blind...

Topic: Soul Seeing (1/22/17 Classroom Talk)...

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.