Classroom Talk: 12/11/2020 - If we will persist, at all costs, with our interior work -- immersing ourselves in its ensuing, ever-deepening discoveries -- the glad day comes when we will simply melt into them... proving that we are neither the one who seeks truth, nor the one who finds it, but a level of Being that is, and always has been... both.

Limiting what you are willing to discover about yourself -- for fear that you might uncover something you'd rather not see -- is like digging for diamonds while wearing a blindfold because you're afraid that a little dirt may get in your eye.

Classroom Talk: 9/22/2023 - To be identified with even the most elegant description of the Divine is to prolong the suffering born of being separated from Its Light: there is more joy in a single drop of water on the tongue of a man in the desert than will ever be found in a whole library of books on the nature of streams, rivers, and the raindrops that fall to fill them.

Classroom Talk: 10/13/2002 - Whatever those things may be that he is driven to possess, regardless of the noble names he gives to them, he seeks these things only in the attempt to possess himself. But true self-possession is impossible upon such a path. Each of the images that he clings to -- as he pursues their gilded promise of helping him to reach his goal of feeling whole -- only secretly serves to separate him from himself at the outset of his quest.

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...

Student Talks: 2/1/2019 - Key Lesson: It is through one's awareness of imperfection that the Divine reveals the possibility of realizing -- and then manifesting -- its endlessly eternal perfection.

Student Talks: 06/12/2026 - Don’t look back, nor ahead. Peace can’t be made, let alone seen with eyes blinded by time. Patience and conscious suffering travel in unseen lockstep, together…or not at all. Only the foolish look for one, and away from the other.

Classroom Talk: 8/6/2023 - Part 1: There is no relief from the conflict and grief born of unrealized self-ignorance, which is why it's wise to seek self-knowledge. Part 2: The hardest thing in the world is to quietly do what life asks of you; but, if you attend to this first, Divine desire, all else is added... and you "shall not want."

The first part of these new lessons in learning to live from your Higher Self and the prayer exercises that attend them is that the next time you feel yourself becoming agitated, simply notice what idea are you connected to? Look how simple that is, if you'll do it. Here is one small example. You are driving down the street and you notice that you're feeling depressed. Or maybe you're feeli...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of February 8, 2016. When, and only as you come to love all that is True -- its Will, its Way, and its Works -- more than you love what you now call your own life... does Truth give you its Life. Then your life becomes its everlasting Work, even after death.

Classroom Talk: 11/17/2024 - Real self-change begins with seeing that Real Life is change itself.

Topics Covered: Because most people don't really understand the nature of time, they also don't know anything about timelessness; As a result of imagining wholeness in a time to come, we resist everything in life that seems to get in the way of that imagined wholeness; When we become identified with anything, we are at that point stalked and threatened by psychological time...