A battle is waged In the deep of me, An epic struggle 'Tween sand and sea, Where one resists The other, so free... Yet, no loss or gain Marks Eternity.

Classroom Talk: 4/6/2005 - Looking to negative thoughts, or dark emotional states, for the power to help you out of some unwanted moment in life, is like hoping that your own shadow -- cast by the sun setting behind you -- can guide you out of a desert in which you have become lost!

Classroom Talk: 12/08/2024 - We are not bound by any unwanted condition, but rather by our failure to realize that we've become unwitting prisoners of our own misplaced attention. Which means that before we can liberate ourselves from this bondage, we must first do the inner work it takes to free our attention from the unconscious nature that misdirects it.

Classroom Talk: 3/13/2019 - The only authority the past has over us comes with our unconscious consent to be its captive each time we identify with its "objects" of thought, and all of their old associated emotions. The more clearly we see the truth of this kind of captivity -- inherent in living from this level of consciousness...

Part 1 Anxiety is a form of negative anticipation; it is the dark by-product of a divided mind that imagines, at once, the security it seeks and what may come along to steal it away! Part 2 The essential emptiness of desire is hidden in the fullness it seeks.

The true measure of one's strength is not determined by his or her drive, assertiveness, or even his willingness to suffer for the sake of some worldly desire. Instead it is found in the degree to which one will agree to enter into the struggle between the indwelling light and darkness.

Topics covered:  "You keep looking in the wrong places for what you are hoping to find when you get there in a time to come; The condition that we see is not responsible for the conflict that we feel; When reality challenges what we have imagined conditions should be, so that we can be who we think we have to be, we fall into conflict and suffering."

Topics covered:  There is no becoming in the Kingdom of Heaven. In that Kingdom it is already done. You are separate from that Kingdom because of a misunderstanding about your true nature; "From unreality lead me to the real, from darkness to the light, from death to immortality." -- The Upanishads (circa 800 – 200 B.C.E.); Somehow you are going to have to die to everything that you think you are.

Topics covered:A true teaching shows an individual where he or she is complicit in their own unnecessary suffering; A new "body" is necessary in order to move from a lower, limited world into higher, more inclusive world; The acronym "SBARAAHP" in the doctor story stands for "Stuck Between A Rock And A Hard Place"; If you feel like you are stuck between a rock and a hard place...

Classroom Talk: 12/31/2003 - Within each of us dwells all that it is possible for us to be. Why look any farther?

Classroom Talk: 2/9/2003 - No one succeeds in Life who is driven through it, because unless you are at the wheel of your own thoughts and feelings, they are incapable of reaching a natural stop. Crashing into Life is not what it means to rest.

No matter how challenging the condition may be, regardless how steep the learning curve -- or wide the gap between what you desire to do, and yet cannot -- the first limitation you meet in these moments is always one and the same as an invitation to transcend it...