Classroom Talk: 10/30/2002 - Our sensations of life have nothing in common with sensitivity to life. The former is born of unconscious reactions as they cascade and then disappear in time, while the latter is related to True Conscience and is as timeless as the eternal wisdom it helps to bear. Learning to discern the difference between these two states of our being is a pre-requisite to our realization of Real Life. 

Classroom Talk: 8/10/2025 - No one wants to be touched by the hand of suffering, so millions spend billions trying to escape what they see as something "raining on their parade." And yet, their fear is as misplaced as the misunderstanding that creates it, and here's why: into every life must come some rain, for without it... what else can a heart become other than a desert that never blooms?

Topics Covered: The thing that our heart is searching for is not of this world, which means that the false self cannot find it by identifying with changing conditions; "In time all things are seeking completion. In the Now all things are complete." -- Maurice Nicoll; What is timeless is already here, we just don't usually see it. Our highest destiny awaits us above us, and what is...

Classroom Talk: 2/2/2005 - That strong sense of urgency -- that pressurized feeling that comes with struggling to obtain or resolve whatever is imagined as being critical to your sense of contentment -- is one of the ways the false self makes the essentially meaningless seem incredibly meaningful for as long as it's pursued. 

Classroom Talk: 2/12/2003 - The endless emotional sensations that enter into -- and that temporarily possess the heart -- are not the Truth of the heart any more than the sun's baking heat, or a winter's freezing sleet, are the same as the sky they fill as they pass their way through it.

Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view!

Classroom Talk: 10/23/2002 - Whoever struggles to protect himself from his perceived fear does not banish his enemy but secretly breeds the dark seeds of its life.

Classroom Talk: 2/2/2003 - Contrary to popular psychotic belief, God did not create us to look upon His Life as a wish-fulfillment center. Instead, we are created to live in the awareness that God's life is the center of our being, and that to realize this relationship answers all of our wishes because Love itself has then become our life.

Classroom Talk: 7/17/2024 - There is no Love in thought; no wisdom in knowledge. There is no kindness, let alone compassion in any image; were Michelangelo himself to have painted the likeness of the most tantalizing loaf of bread ever imagined... still, it could do nothing to ease the pain of hunger.

Classroom Talk: 6/25/2003 - You cannot be paid twice for the same thing. This Truth explains the danger in only dreaming about the Higher Life instead of quietly working for its realization.

Classroom Talk: 11/20/2002 - Spiritually Speaking.... No one falls down who isn't first pulled down by a false spirit masquerading as a helpful hand out of some hurtful situation.