Topics covered: Conscious pain is sensitivity, unconscious pain makes you a dullard; We have pain with other people because we're afraid of consequence; You're being manipulated inwardly; Do the best you know to do and then drop any afterthoughts about it; Discouragement is the shadow of self-judgment; Meaning is the integrated story of mind, body, and heart...

It will always be in what you think is the very worst moment of your life that you are nearest to having a new life. But you must watch for how the mind wants to glorify these 'dark nights of the soul' by imagining what your life will be like when you are reborn.

Topics covered: The only time you're in psychological pain is when you're identified; Your work is to connect the pain you're in to the dominant 'I' within you; Your awareness that you can't do the good you know you ought to do is necessary; You must be willing to have emptiness before you can have revelation; Intention creates an observer that sits outside of habitual action; Seeing you are u...

For those who aspire to know the immortal Self, the dark night of the soul is a required time of "unknowing."...

Topics covered: The nature of experience is revelation; All experience is connected; We are raised by Mother Nature; The sum of your experience is not derived solely from sensation; Every insight that is not rejected serves to strengthen your ability to receive the next impression; You have to love perfection more than you fear the hell you have to go through in order for the perfection to act...

Classroom Talk: 5/19/2019 - Being able to realize, and then release one's resistance to any unwanted moment does more than just help change the "dark tide" of that event; it reveals that within us already dwell the untroubled "waters" of a celestial harbor: the timeless shelter of an eternal Self that becomes the same as our own...

The moment that you see that the only thing you really fear in this life is what you've mistaken yourself to be, you'll also see the interior path that leads to a fearless life. Take this path and you will find a greatness that is the source of fearlessness itself.

Topics covered: Why do I keep making the wrong choices despite knowing better; How do I handle a rude coworker; How do we understand Judgment Day and the Afterlife; Can fearing God be a point of connection to the Divine as much as love is; I fear losing myself in higher consciousness; I have removed myself from affirming relationships but still can't connect to higher love; How do I support fa...

Spiritual wisdom is our greatest wealth and, as we realize the truth of this -- so that true self-knowledge becomes our single greatest wish in life -- each moment of every one of our relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of ourselves.

Topics covered: What is "the seeker" inside of us; Caring for a parent with dementia; Why is this journey filled with seemingly endless perils and pitfalls; The moment of relationship is the revelation of a character in my consciousness; The prodigal son and the dark night of the soul; What love begins, love will finish the way it wants to finish it; What is the common thread that runs through every aspirant's journey; It is not "I" who remembers God, it is God who remembers I.

 

Within each of us lives a tireless, latent longing to touch -- and be touched by -- life's invisible celestial forces. For instance, whenever we stand as a silent witness to the endless expanse of a dark night sky, we are inwardly moved by this outer display of timelessness spread out above us...

Regardless of how dark or empty any given moment may first appear, it acts only as a herald of the living light he needs to see his way home to the Divine.