As we awaken to see that misery loves company -- and that we've become its closest friend -- we're well on our way to discovering a new...and much truer Friend.

Half measures produce half results, and half results are one and the same as lessons only half learned. Lessons half learned guarantee you're halfway there, once again, to repeating those lessons in your life that you have yet to learn!...

Classroom Talk: 7/17/2019 May as well try and explain to a door that its total possibility is nothing more than being open or closed - by a force not its own - as hope that a sleeping human being will be interested in seeing the futility of a life consigned to the swing of the opposites.

As long as you have your back to the light of the sun, it's impossible to outrace your shadow. However, as soon as you turn and face the light, your shadow must fall behind you and remain there, wherever you may go.

I have become extremely aware of the violence, the depth of hate, fear, judgment and all darkness within. I feel helpless to change and can see the self-destructive nature alive in me. What can I do? Is there hope?...

Topics covered: Observing the violence of an unconscious, dark nature within us; The terror of the human condition is to believe you exist the way you do; Every act of identification is a step deeper into matter; One's true strength comes from truth; Everything created is the Son; Your first responsibility is to be passive to the activity of the Father; Your mind is intended to be an inlet, bu...

In the world of spirit, we experience love. But we are on earth in order to develop our intent -- in order to choose who we are, in order to self-realize. So, in the big picture, is intent only a tool? Or is it an organizing force that allows love and hate to exist? Is intent bigger than love?...

Classroom Talk: 2/12/2020 - The unseen conflict & bitterness hidden in ALL belief systems is that there can't be a belief in something without a "believer" ... someone who loves the image of what he or she believes in...and despises anyone, or anything that appears to threaten it.

Topics covered: Why do I berate myself; What happens to people who leave the work; Who or what am I; It seems like people who don't do spiritual work are happier; Where can I find the ancient writings; How is the story of a child being afraid of the dark related to the opposites; What brings true change in our lives; What does a healthy relationship look like; Can a person be beyond repair spi...

Whatever I endeavor to do spiritually, I find I have to almost fight with myself. I have always been a person of prayer and now am trying to look at self-love vs. self-hate and loathing. How do you pray without the stupid part of you screaming at you to shut up? These absurd thoughts while praying are so disturbing because I feel like I am losing touch with the Divine. Lately I have tried to j...

Negative self-talk -- turning on yourself with a vengeance -- seems to prove the presence of an innocent 'you' -- someone (who is) superior to the inferior character you condemn (in yourself). But hating and berating yourself is actually the avoidance of seeing yourself as you are in that moment. All forms of dark dialogue serve an unconscious and divided level of self whose purpose is to crea...

Topics covered: To everything there is a season, turn, turn, turn; Christ never hated those who resisted or resented his work; The illusion of bondage; Being a pawn of a punishing nature; Doing what you are given to do; Self-Shock Syndrome; Our language has been perfected by the consciousness that perpetuates the victim mentality; Being poor in spirit; It's hard not to want consolation...