It seems to me that the main reason we suffer, as we do – over the things we do – is not because these things, in themselves, have the "power" to punish us, but rather because we forget in these moments that who we really are cannot feel "punished" without having forgotten that God is good. This last idea can be stated this way: It is forgetting the truth of ourselves that keeps us in the...

Classroom Talk: 5/26/2021 - The living Now -- pure Presence -- is not just an expression of perfect freedom; it is its center everywhere: the Ground from out of which all creation arises and returns again.

Classroom Talk: 4/14/2024 - If -- by the light of remembering and considering what is Timeless, Holy, and True -- the heart is warmed and gradually enflamed, then the following must be true, even if yet to be seen: within us must dwell some sort of celestial kindling; what else can explain how such a flame is created, let alone serve as a light in the darkness of the soul... uniting the twain, making of them as one.

There is only one reason why we become emotionally negative, let alone surrender ourselves to its dark and debilitating embrace: We have forgotten that we have a choice as to what we love, and whose company we keep, accordingly.

Classroom Talk: 7/10/2022 - The problems and pains that plague a divided mind disappear in the same moment as they appear in a mind unified with itself.

We're all familiar with the general idea that in a moment of crisis a person ought to be able to remember what is right and true. We want to remember that there is an ideal aspect of our character within us that the circumstance we find ourselves going through has seemingly made disappear. We have all struggled the best that we know how to be the embodiment of that ideal, and there are definit...

It is in our wanting "more" than the moment gives us to be that we not only sow the seeds of our own discontent but, for this same self-inflicted darkness, find ourselves blinded to a great truth that can help set us free: everything we need to succeed at being all that the Divine would have us be is already a presence in our soul.

Student Talks: 4/19/2024 - Key Lesson: If -- by the light of remembering and considering what is Timeless, Holy, and True -- the heart is warmed and gradually enflamed, then the following must be true, even if yet to be seen: within us must dwell some sort of celestial kindling; what else can explain how such a flame is created, let alone serve as a light in the darkness of the soul... uniting the twain, making of them as one.

Student Talks: 7/15/2022 - Key Lesson: The problems and pains that plague a divided mind disappear in the same moment as they appear in a mind unified with itself.

Classroom Talk: 11/20/2019 In real life there are no "tracks" to follow, but thought runs along the tracks of memory, and memory always departs from, and returns to the same station: the PAST. This explains why it seems we never arrive at that divine station in life called "True Freedom"... because real freedom is not in time.

1. The most gracious 2. The most merciful 3. The king 4. The holy 5. The peace 6. The grantor of security 7. The controller 8. The powerful 9. The strong 10. The supreme 11. The creator 12. The evolver, the maker 13. The fastener, the shaper, the designer 14. The repeatedly forgiving 15. The subduer 16. The bestower 17. The provider, the sustainer 18. The opener, the victo...

True Self-Remembering is where and when -- within us -- both the outside and the inside world are perceived and realized together in the unity of experience.