Student Talks: 7/31/2020 - Key Lesson: There is no greater strength than knowing that everything life brings to you is for you as well. And as this wondrous fact grows clear to you, old enemies either vanish or they're transformed into your allies. Precious energies once wasted in futile self-defense are turned into new powers...

When we try to avoid or manipulate a moment in order to just get through it, we will meet that same moment again because we are the same. We cannot separate the moment we don't want from the level of consciousness that fears it. Seeing this is the same as realizing that the fear, though we may feel its presence, is not the power that it claims to be.

Topics covered: We do not have consciousness, we are consciousness; Our experience of life can't be separated from the nature that perceives it; You can't solve problems from the level of thought that produces them; Real faith is rooted in things unseen; Nothing in the universe can stop you from changing; Having beliefs is a hindrance; My past is not who I am; Resistance is the source of all n...

Student Talks: 05/29/2026 -A small mind is filled to overflowing by its love of little things.

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. The first imperfection is spiritual self-ignorance.

Imagine trying to see the whole of an ocean through a ship's porthole, and we have a pretty good idea why (our) life can so often feel small and confined; as if we have no choice but to be swept out to sea on a single wave of some fearful thought or feeling.

Student Talks: 8/5/2022 - Key Lesson: Part 1: It is impossible to be afraid of oneself, and be in command of oneself at the same time. Part 2: Whatever fear seeds in us, it breeds in us.

Classroom Talk: 9/2/2020 - The only true solution to any stress, anxiety, fear or frustration -- that rears its ugly head in unwanted moments -- is to do the (interior) work it takes to outgrow an unconscious, conflicted level of self that sees its pain as proof that it knows... the true nature of peace.

Classroom Talk: 8/26/2020 - One way we can be assured that we're beginning to awaken to Real Life is when we can say the following -- without a trace of doubt -- to any anxious or fearful thought: "I don't need you anymore!" And what a day that is!

Topics Covered: All psychological fear is an unseen form of exile from the Kingdom of Heaven produced by the presence of an unsuspected form of self-ignorance; The only time we harm ourselves or others is when we are afraid; When does fear appear? Psychological fear appears when a condition -- that we were relying on for our happiness -- starts to change; Who and what we...

Topics Covered: What we are looking for is already within us, not outside of us. It is true that "the Kingdom of Heaven is within," but we don't know anything about that when we're afraid, anxious, and fighting with life; What if we could know -- whenever we find ourselves in some kind of pain -- without having to think about it, that what we were experiencing in that moment...

Topic: What Are All These Voices in My Head and What Can I Do About Them: Reclaim Your Authority Over All Fearful Thoughts and Feelings (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 5/6/26)