Classroom Talk: 05/17/2026 -Learn what it means to give all you have to whatever it is that you may be doing in the moment, for only the cost of "taking pains" to complete that action can complete you. 

Topics Covered: The kind of change we are seeking always starts with a feeling whose origin is a mystery. The change does not begin nor come about through thinking; The healing power of what is true requires a surrender to what it is showing you about yourself; Our present way of living involves investing our happiness and dreams in the idea of a better tomorrow, so that we don't live now...

The real crisis is (in) our present level of consciousness, and not in the conditions that serve to reveal it (to us).

Student Talks: 7/26/2024 - Key Lesson: Until the peace and pleasure found within us is equal to -- or greater than -- any consolation found outside of ourselves -- then our power to be patient, loving, and profitable in every moment is, at best, conditional; nothing better serves to sustain anger, frustration, and fear than being identified with a level of self whose life is founded, at best, upon the sands of passing circumstances.

A Commentary and Exercise in How to Consciously Be Atoned With Life The suffering we are aware of can't be separated from the awareness of that pain; they appear together. The question is: do we allow this pain, and its attending sense of self, to continue mechanically reconciling our suffering? Or...do we agree to consciously suffer the Awareness of this lower level of self - that includes...

Classroom Talk: 11/1/2023 - When it comes to being in conflict with one another -- at whatever level or scale in which that painful relationship plays itself out -- each of us is responsible for what is happening to both of us.

One is always considering, so deeply steeped in the ceaseless preparations of planning and pursuing some imagined freedom "to come" that he forgets -- and consequently -- forsakes the possibility of realizing that the freedom he seeks has long awaited him... within his (own) Being.

The real crisis is (in) our present level of consciousness, and not in the conditions that serve to reveal it (to us).

We are meant to live where no one else has ever been, forever stepping into a world that is being made new with every step we take into it.

Topics covered:  For all of the possessions that we have, we do not have peace. You cannot possess real peace, and yet you can never lose it; What deceives you into seeking peace promises peace in a time to come after you have obtained what it has prescribed. We become obsessed with the peace that we imagine is coming; "You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come." -- New Testament

Any time you're rushing around, under pressure to hurry up and "get it done"... you may be assured of the following truth: not only will you run right by the (real) purpose of your life... but crossing whatever may be your "finish line" of the moment will prove itself as meaningless as the time you wasted trying to get there.

Topics covered:  We are always trying to recapture a peace that we think we have lost. But the whole idea of restoring a peace that you have lost is an illusion; The mind that believes it has lost its peace imagines a peaceful time to come, which it never reaches; The negative reaction that other people bring up in you is YOUR limitation, not the limitation of the other person.