Topics covered: Every true teaching is designed to help you see that, spiritually speaking, you cannot truly do what you think you can do, ie: complete yourself; Everything that happens in your life is part of the purpose of your life. What is in your way is part of the Way; Much of our lives now involve an incessant and exhausting search for a sense of security that cannot be assailed by any condition.

Part I: No one sets out to find ways to comfort himself without having first consented to making his own discontented nature King or Queen for the duration of that search. Part II: Our spiritual sleep is upon a bed of thorns lightly covered by fragrant petals.

Realized or not... our path (through life) is largely set by unseen parts of ourselves, and we follow blindly where they lead; only awakening to this fact has the power to change our choices, and what they secretly serve. Where rather than compulsively struggling to satisfy some imagined desire, we prefer to know the nature of what has suggested it to us; and then, by the light of our new awar...

Classroom Talk: 10/19/2003 - For those with ears to hear -- whose hearts are set upon discovering the Truth: there are some things that you cannot learn about the nature of light while the sun is shining.

Student Talks: 9/12/2025 - All anxious resistance to what "might be" is the avoidance of what is.

Classroom Talk: 6/2/2002 - We command what we understand. What we don't understand commands us. Conscious relationship is the road that leads to understanding and the final understanding of self.

Student Talks: 7/28/2023 - Key Lesson: A true search for the beginning of things must, invariably, lead to the end of things; but the end of things is not the end of the awareness of them.

Classroom Talk: 2/5/2003 - All complaints about life are sinister seeds whose thorny nature thrives only in the darkness of the one's rejection of reality. These seeds of spite nourish progressive states of negative isolation, and their life serves nothing except to steal from the ground of one's soul certain needful nutriments from which Good Seed might grow.

Student Talks: 4/21/2023 - Key Lesson: Never run from any moment you don't understand, as whatever your conflict may be in that moment with life... (it) will be waiting for you when, and wherever you come to a stop.

Topics covered: Being present is the same as the capacity to do the right thing at the right time, without needing thought; "The truth about the action must be known and the truth of inaction also must be known; even so the truth about prohibited action must be known. For mysterious are the ways of action. He who sees inaction in action and action in inaction, is wise among men." -- Bhagavad Gita

Student Talks: 08/21/2026 - Until we can withstand uncertainty without escaping into explanation, fantasy, or any other familiar form of psychological avoidance, we cannot discover what lies beyond it.

Classroom Talk: 10/2/2024 - Continuing to look for something new outside of yourself is like rearranging the clothes in your closet and, after you're done, going back through it hoping to find the experience of some unexpected joy.