One of our greatest, least understood sorrows in this life, the root cause of an uninspired life, is that -- given our present level of being -- we have no other place to explore besides the valley of thought: an unconscious realm where the shadows of things that were hide their emptiness by changing their shape to look like a time to come -- just ahead -- when, at long last, we will reach the time and place where our struggles with life are at last behind us!

Topics covered: What good is it to live in a world where the idea of "God" is merely a convenience that suits people only when they need the idea for some kind of self gain?; An unconscious interior dialog includes being told the reason why we are in conflict, along with the things we should do to end the conflict; Identification with a reaction is the same as passively consenting to the consciousness that...

If you wish to enter into a new relationship with life you must be willing to challenge the voices of ""I can't"" or ""I won't"" or ""I don't"" when they appear in your mind. This is the only way you will ever have the possibility of discovering that those voices are not really you.

Student Talks: 8/1/2025 - No condition that our unconscious nature imagines into existence can change, let alone liberate that level of self that, out of fear, finds itself compelled to imagine it... in order to feel secure!

 

Topics covered:  There is no action that we take that doesn't begin with an impulse born of an unseen set of energies that inhabit us; The mind's analytical interpretation of a disturbance is not the actual reality of that moment of disturbance. The reactions that come out of the mind's analysis are based on illusion; Everything we do to change our experience of moments we don't want comes from an unconscious, mechanical will that does not belong to who you really are.

It is the very nature of thought to postpone life, and thereby put off entrance into the heaven it seeks.

Student Talks: 07/18/2025 - If we’re still talking to ourselves about some past, painful, unwanted moment—justifying, revisiting, or analyzing it—we can be sure the invisible, Divine purpose of that moment was not fulfilled. And this insight, for those with “eyes to see,” reveals a deeper truth: if the lesson remains unrealized, then so does our reason for having incarnated the forces responsible for its revelation. Within this truth lies a still greater one, for those who would be free: under celestial law, such moments must return—either to be repeated, or – in our acceptance of a Divine will that seeks to strengthen our relationship with it – to serve as the ground of spiritual renewal.

Classroom Talk: 4/1/2005 - The more we practice quietly stepping outside that rushing stream of thoughts about ourselves, the more we realize our True Self as being something altogether unthinkable; for the undreamed power of a silent mind is this: Since it never sinks itself into useless considerations of the painful kind, it has no need to be rescued from its own troubled creations!

Student Talks: 05/23/2025 - There is no circumstance in our life -- immediate, or seemingly inescapable -- that isn't perfectly suited to help us change the way we see, understand, and ultimately transcend not just the troubled, or otherwise painful moments in our life, but the dark nature (within us) responsible for their reappearance.

Topics covered: Part of the authentic journey is the gradual realization that there is something in you that never stops hungering and thirsting after new impressions; When we wake up in the morning and begin the new day looking at life through the conclusions that thought has already made, then we are looking at yesterday's news; We as human beings are created with the desire...

Resistance is self-love of the negative kind. And whoever embraces its denying force guarantees, through its re-creation, the reincarnation of yet another dark relationship that will soon be equally spurned.

Topics covered:  You are never going to have a life that is completely free of troubles, but you can understand the nature of those troubles; Letting go has nothing to do with what the mind points to as the source of its pain; If you are not in contact with your body, then you are only in contact with thoughts and the sensations that are produced by identifying with them.