Classroom Talk: 11/9/2003 - To simply make effort does not ensure that one will succeed, but it is guaranteed that whoever will not strive will find failure.

Student Talks: 10/11/2019 - Key Lesson: It's impossible to resist the revelations inherent in our day-to-day interactions with life, and to realize the lessons they bring with them at the same time.

Classroom Talk: 8/24/2022 - We all want to be free of painful dramas in our life, yet refuse to see how we play a lead role in their daily appearance. Catching ourselves in a play of our own making -- hearing ourselves reiterate old lines even we are getting bored with -- sets the stage for closing the curtain on a show where we keep starring in our own suffering.

Helping each other is waking up. The illusion is that we are all separate, individual people. As I'm awakened in myself to myself, I see the consciousness that is acting within me and know that I can't go along with it. And if I can't enable it in myself, I can't enable it in others either. Through your growing self-awareness you start to see what serves you and what doesn't.

Classroom Talk: 9/3/2003 - In this life, because of its invisible laws of perfect reciprocity, anything that we do to help another outgrow the limitations of his or her present nature produces the same order of growth within ourselves.

Classroom Talk: 9/8/2002 - What makes someone a master is not that he or she possesses some unattainable skill, but that these individuals have first realized the existence of, and then made contact with, a world above them that wants to pour its more perfected understanding into their own.

Part of what we have not been able to remember and use in our spiritual work is the fact that everyone around us is just like us. All the people in our lives -- even people walking by us on the street -- are seen by us (in our present way of experiencing life) as being disparate, something different to condemn or condone, to embrace or push away based on what we perceive in them. What we don't...

Topics covered:  Your experience of life comes down to what it is that you prize most in this life; There is something within you that wants to communicate with you about how to free you from yourself; We know how it feels to want to let go, but wanting to let go, and the ability to actually do it, seem to be miles and miles apart.

Topics covered: Our suffering is solved the moment we find where it is that, without knowing it, we have been living from a nature that isn't just complicit with its continuity, but that can't live without it; What you give your attention to cannot be separated from the sense of self derived from it. Anything that captures your attention becomes your experience and your sense of self...

Topics covered: We struggle to solve the problems in our lives by consulting the consciousness that is responsible for those problems; The acronym SIDOTNK stands for "Self Induced Drama Of The Negative Kind"; The mind that feels threatened in an unwanted moment interprets the moment based on the content of the past; Have you ever noticed that you are the star of every painful life drama that you participate in?

Most of us like to receive a love letter or a letter from a friend. Why? Because the letter represents a kind of relationship that is expressed through correspondence. We naturally long to correspond with real life. We like music, for instance, because it produces a corresponding movement in us. Music is correspondence. We love the beauty of music because there is a corresponding beauty inside...

Topics covered: Our suffering is solved the moment we find where it is that, without knowing it, we have been living from a nature that isn't just complicit with its continuity, but that can't live without it; What you give your attention to cannot be separated from the sense of self derived from it. Anything that captures your attention becomes your experience and your sense of self...