Topics covered: It is very unnatural to have an unexamined life; It feels to most of us as if life is always asking, "What are you gonna do? How are you gonna handle that? What's next? What about this and what about that?"; Tension seems to demand that you respond to it; So much of our time is spent trying to sort out why we feel the way we do; The mind is always disturbed because it never stops comparing...

Classroom Talk: 8/31/2005 - If we mistook the onboard activities of a luxury liner for being the same as the new country towards which we sail, and remained aboard upon making port, our loss would never be known. The same holds true whenever we mistake the limited world of thought, with its time-bound dreams, for being the same as the eternal kingdom of our spiritual potential.

Classroom Talk: 5/4/2003 - It isn't until we realize that our True Nature can never be known, only continually discovered, that we become the conscious and fearless explorers of reality that we are created to be; moving in and out of complementary or conflicting moments alike with the same ease as does a dolphin take delight in carving its way through the endless currents of the sea.

Classroom Talk: 3/5/2003 - To live, to really live, means to take one's part in Real Life; and Real Life is always testing herself, which means to really be alive is to be tested. But Real Life never asks more of Herself than she has to give, so it isn't until we accept, willingly, whatever trials Life gives us that we are truly given Real Life.

Remastered Classic Talk: 6/21/17 - Awakening to one's true Self begins with realizing that within us lives -- eternally, and right along side one another -- an endless need, as well as an endless resource that exists only to answer it!

Classroom Talk: 7/31/2024 - The grace of God is immeasurable; it is we who measure all we are given to see - and to be, accordingly; and where, with each conclusion as to the worth of what we're given to see, we steal from ourselves the immeasurable wealth of our own highest possibilities.

It is we who suffer the darkness of our own doubts -- and needlessly so -- if only we would dare plumb the depths of all that God has prepared for us to see...and be.

Every inspired thought -- each new insight that points to the heights of what we might yet become -- serves to enlarge the mind that conceives it. And the grand discovery of that mind touched by any such truth is that within this breaking light is found nothing less than the endlessness of its own possibilities.

Topics covered: Discussion of the 'seer and seen' exercise practiced during lunch; Self-remembrance begins with collecting all your faculties; The emergence of new understanding forms the ground of further understanding; The difference between affirmation and negation; Losing interest in yourself is a full-time job; The more you have faith in what you are shown, the more you will have faith in...

Remastered Classic Talk: 2/8/17 - 

Part 1: This moment -- now -- is the timeless ground, seed, and fulfillment of all that is possible for us to be; to discover its riches is the first step in realizing, and then reclaiming our True Self.

Part 2: Wanting to be anything other than aware of what creation is ceaselessly showing you about yourself is wasting what Life itself wants for you: a chance to realize, and become as one with a new and higher level of consciousness attainable in no other way.

Topics covered:  There is no way to see what you need to see as long as you only pursue pleasure and what makes you comfortable; Life becomes unnecessarily difficult when you try to extract a sense of self from it. Then that self's life becomes all about trying to tame the very difficulties that it creates; What you truly need is always with you, but your mind is always being misdirected away from looking in the right place.

One of our deepest spiritual longings is to be able to face, without fear, whatever trouble comes our way because the strength we need to do so is already a part of who we are.