Classroom Talk: 8/6/2023 - Part 1: There is no relief from the conflict and grief born of unrealized self-ignorance, which is why it's wise to seek self-knowledge. Part 2: The hardest thing in the world is to quietly do what life asks of you; but, if you attend to this first, Divine desire, all else is added... and you "shall not want."

Topics covered: The recovery of our true self begins with the realization that we have never known what our self really is; You are the answer you are looking for. The role of a true teacher is to welcome you with one hand and push you away with the other; Humanity shoots an arrow randomly and then draws the bullseye around wherever it lands; No human being gets negative without being in a dream.

Topics Covered: It is destructive to hate another human being. It is destructive to be afraid. It is destructive to rush, to be anxious, to worry; The unconscious mind is forever bringing up something that it can identify with; The realization of a new possibility is the same as becoming aware of an old limitation; What determines our possibilities in any given moment is what...

A flower in the process of blooming doesn't go looking for what it needs to fulfill the purpose of its existence; the very presence of its beckoning petals and delicate fragrance attracts to it all it requires... with no extra effort on its part, whatsoever. As you work to realize your True Self... opening yourself to the revelations needed to realize its unseen Source, not only will you part...

The meaning of life cannot be separated from the moment of life that reveals it.

Here is one of the great spiritual mysteries of all time. Freedom is either found within one's suffering or not at all; the only thing one escapes who runs from his or her pain is the possibility of discovering its purpose and how to transcend it.

Classroom Talk: 1/8/2003 - There once was a fellow named "Will", Whose intellect fell down a hill, But it dragged Will along 'Cause he wasn't that strong, And neither ever got over their spill!

Topic: How to Transform Painful Questions into Healing Answers (Classroom Talk 7/31/24)

Classroom Talk: 5/8/2002 - Just as you will never convince a liar that he first deceives himself, so is it true of those who believe they are the chosen of God who secretly spend their whole lives serving only themselves. The fires that burn in these people will jump out of them and burn you should you dare to question the nature of their light.

We are not meant to keep our eye on some "tomorrow" from which we blindly borrow the false pleasure of what "might be." Such dreams serve nothing save the sleeping self, an imagined sense of "self" that always realizes, too late, that its "hope in things seen" is the same as tomorrow's sorrow.

Student Talks: 8/11/2023 - Key Lesson: Part 1: There is no relief from the conflict and grief born of unrealized self-ignorance, which is why it's wise to seek self-knowledge. Part 2: The hardest thing in the world is to quietly do what life asks of you; but, if you attend to this first, Divine desire, all else is added... and you "shall not want."