Classroom Talk: 11/27/2002 - Any time that we identify with some negative emotion, or otherwise self-compromising thought, we not only embrace what betrays and constrains us, but lend our will to what holds us captive. In this way we actually transform ourselves into becoming prisoners of our own unconscious act.

Topics covered: The reason the world is the way it is, is because we who are the world are responsible for the world we experience; The 'I' used to address some conflict it experiences is one and the same thing as the conflict it addresses; This work is about what happens when a man or a woman no longer wants to delay the inevitable discovery that they are at war again; Take no thought for tomorrow...

Topics Covered: There is no such thing as a compulsive pleasure; We are not meant to spend our lives compulsively defending and justifying ourselves. Those things are addictions; Physical hunger and thirst are natural, but being hungry for approval is not natural; Every day we go compulsively looking for what our mind says we need in order to find fulfillment. What we long for...

Part 1 Being in any kind of painful rush is what happens every time you feel as if you're late for a very important date with something you've imagined won't wait for you to get there. Part 2 Here's why nothing you rush to do can ever truly satisfy you: no nature on fire can extinguish its own desire.

Dare to put aside all relationships other than those which serve to reveal what is essential to your real desire.

Here’s why no rest can be found in the thought (of any time to come) regardless how temporarily comforting it may seem: there is no end to the thinker’s desire to resolve the angst inherent in its own conflicted thinking...

Classroom Talk: 11/21/2003 - We must do more than just try to remember that nothing disturbs our peace of mind without first having gained our consent to enjoin us in that conflict; we must learn to fight for ourselves, to boldly reject any negative state that would rule us -- or else accept the lot of victim and wear his mantle of woe.

Classroom Talk: 6/18/2003 - Once we awaken to see that each of our lives is an integral part of an Eternal Turning Point, and that nothing changes in the Great Life without changing everything within it, then we can let go of trying to change ourselves and simply take our natural place participating in the power of the Life Awakened.

Classroom Talk: 5/4/2003 - It isn't until we realize that our True Nature can never be known, only continually discovered, that we become the conscious and fearless explorers of reality that we are created to be; moving in and out of complementary or conflicting moments alike with the same ease as does a dolphin take delight in carving its way through the endless currents of the sea.

Topics covered:  Most human beings believe that they already know what love is, as well as what it means to be loved; To discover what love is begins with seeing what it is not; We believe that power is found in the part. It is that very belief that is the pain.