In our conversations with others, we must learn to say what we want as clearly and kindly as possible, yet . . . leaving no doubt as to our desire. Otherwise we learn, too late, the painful lesson that unspoken assumptions always return to bite the hand of the one who holds them.

All acts of impatience serve to secretly deflect the one critical revelation that as long as we meet life with any unseen demand, we can't help but be painfully remanded into the hands of one of these two self-punishing states: anger or frustration. They are the bridesmaids of any desire thwarted....

Part I: There is no life lesson available to us that exists apart from the Light that reaveals its truth. Part II: Our soul, in her developing desire for the Divine, is like a flower created to be visited and attended to by Higher Beings that bring her wisdom, comfort, and silent joy.

Student Talks: 07/11/2025 - The truth is, it’s not the moment that’s unfolding before your eyes — nor even your experience of it. Rather, it is you — your true Self — unfolding in the ceaseless revelation of a Timeless Life, inseparable from the Divine Light that serves to reveal it.

Topics covered:  Resistance to the moment does not prove that you know what the moment is about; You believe that you can get away from yourself. But the object that the mind is trying to get to does not exist without the subject that makes it; Perfect love casts out fear because it takes you out of the equation. Love comes when the self ends. Knowing is antithetical to love.

Student Talks: 12/20/2023 - Key Lesson: To everything there is a season, and life's great cycles of expansion and contraction -- of yes and no -- serve no individual save the one who has uncovered the secret of being in the world, but not of it.

Classroom Talk: 3/20/2019 - What is this uncompromising, and yet constantly compromised “force” at work in us, that we call... "free will”? Here's the truth that – once seen – acts to set us free: what we call our will is the conditioned residue of experience past as it imposes itself on the revelation of each moment in order to create – and sustain – an...

Classroom Talk: 5/14/2003 - Real wisdom begins with growing weary of seeing how your best answers for how to live always leave you with a heartache.

Pure and simple: attachments are pain; they are the invisible posts that support the superstructure of the sleeping self and its inevitable suffering.

Classroom Talk: 12/19/2003 - Just as the value of a precious stone is known by how well it reflects back the light that enters into it, so too is the worth of the human heart a reflection of the life it absorbs and transforms, and then gives back to others.

Classroom Talk: 5/18/2003 - It is the light of awareness that first reveals to us hidden aspects of our own nature that we can no longer continue being, and that then acts to liberate us from this mistaken identity, leading us to further integrated and higher states of consciousness.