Topics covered: I cannot see what is if I'm looking for something; There's a complete difference between physical and spiritual evolution; The dreamer is always trying to perfect itself through its dreams; Thinking is outside of you; You're not here for the perfection of who you think you are; The real work has never been about the glorification of any one individual; You will have to ascend i...

Topics covered: Your best spiritual work comes from seeing a truth from different angles; Every event is specific to the development of your soul; Your true nature doesn't use thoughts to communicate with you; A crisis does not create an unwanted condition, it reveals what doesn't want to change; Within you lives another order of being that doesn't have to think its way out of a situation; Our...

Topics explored in this dialogue: When we fall on our faces it isn't because God wants us to fail -- we're actually being invited to discover another order of ourselves; Events themselves are neutral and actually serve to reveal wants we didn't know we had; You know you're making progress in your spiritual work when you get tired of not knowing who to be; Built-in to the idea of tolerating oth...

Classroom Talk: 3/7/2003 - The seed of greatness is sown in an instant, but in this world of ours everything great takes time to grow. This means that patience, mingled with persistence, is the special nutriment that sustains all things great. Therefore, should we wish to win the Great Life, we need only add equal measures of quiet watchfulness to our spiritual willingness and a Great Goodness cannot help but flourish within us.

Classroom Talk: 7/26/2002 - As we wake up to those parts of us that would have us believe we can change our lives by following the directions of the very self that we no longer wish to be, then we are on our way to winning a New Life. The Real spiritual journey begins with letting go of who we have been instead of calling upon it to be our travel guide.

Topics covered: Every thought that you have about yourself, and what you should do to improve your place in life, is a waste; You cannot complete the moment without at the same time completing yourself. They are one and the same thing; If you keep repeating the same experience, it means that you have not really learned the lesson that comes with the experience. Spiritual lessons ride in on the back of events...

Classroom Talk: 5/31/2023 - Part1: The fear of pain, the pain of fear: See how they feed one another... And (your) liberation draws near. Part 2: Just as the threshold of a house is recognized as the entrance into it, so should our pain be seen, and understood, in a similar light... for its appearance tells the same story, only in spiritual terms: not only (is it) a doorway into an increasingly fearless...

Topics Covered: At a certain point along the path, a person begins to see that they have been caught in a circle of reacting to conditions; All true spiritual teachings point out that we are not a single person; we are made up of a legion of temporary identities. A good portrayal of this condition is the classic Robert Louis Stevenson book, "Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde"; It is impossible to find...

Just as an acorn that goes unplanted in the earth can never realize its destiny to become a mighty oak, so it holds with any Real Spiritual Principle that we unearth in our journey through this life: only those Truths developed in us -- by reason of our work to see that they take root in the ground of our soul -- are empowered to grant us the strength, shelter, and sustenance of their eternal...

Just as an acorn that goes unplanted in the earth can never realize its destiny to become a mighty oak, so it holds with any Real Spiritual Principle that we unearth in our journey through this life: only those Truths developed in us -- by reason of our work to see that they take root in the ground of our soul -- are empowered to grant us the strength, shelter, and sustenance of their eternal...

As long as one remains a seeker in the spiritual game of searching for one's self, there will always be someone "new" to become, as well as an agreed-upon blindness to the fact that whatever identity is acquired through such pursuit soon proves itself to be as stale and old as its predecessor. We must quit this ceaseless chase and get down to the business of being what we are -- so that we mig...

As long as one remains a seeker in the spiritual game of searching for one's self, there will always be ample "prey" to hunt down and devour, including an undetected blindness to the fact that regardless of the "feast" of new "I's" consumed one's hunger "to be" never relents. We must cease from this chase and get down to the business of being what we are -- so that we might finally loose our...