Topics covered: Participating in the moment is the same as using the moment for revelation of yourself; Spiritually speaking, attempting to achieve freedom FROM something is the same as not wanting what that thing is revealing about yourself; Everything we do in order to be free puts us under more laws, which is more captivity; Your nature is your future. Your consciousness is your future.

Classroom Talk: 10/11/2020 - Part 1: We cannot live in fear of discovering the truth about ourselves, about our life... and hope to find the truth at the same time. Part 2: Here's an immutable spiritual law: we will never know all it's possible for us to be until we agree to consciously empty ourselves of all that we have been moment-to-momen...

Topics covered: The Law of Order; We're conditioned to believe we can control the outcome of any moment; Control of life is an absolute illusion; Thinking is a form of complaint; Changing the manifestation of a consciousness that's out of order; What does it mean to say "I exist"; The relationship of "I am" is unity; Freedom is unimaginable; Everything is a reflection; Silence permits seeing;...

Topics covered: Discussion of Guy's book, The Courage to Be Free; The integration of the heart and mind; The laws that govern growth; Desire only knows endless desire; Dying to the old self; Becoming the observer takes courage; All relationships are meant to reveal; Awareness unifies; The source of riches live within you; Serving something greater; Seeing the good when things look bad; Who I a...

Topics covered: Being aware that something is always trying to make God's business into its own business; Everything in one way or another always seems to revolve around "me" and it isn't going to stop by itself; The Work has always been about Metanoia, a turning around; It's a law that the moment you want to be someone other than who you are you're guaranteed to remain who you've been

By the fact that her order is implicit, Great Nature is choiceless. Her creatures, from the smallest to the largest, from rock to gorilla, sea slug to Humpback whale, serve without say the demands of the niche and pattern their lives help sustain. (In truth, though unseen, bodies are shaped by the service they perform in creation.) The gift of being a human being is that we are, in potential...

No one is obligated to “love thy neighbor as thyself”, let alone to seek and find one’s place in the Great Circle of Life; yet, “it is written” in the stars themselves: all must eventually pay for what they have done...

Topics Covered: Desire presently knows more about us than we know about it. Until that changes we will be the instrument of desire; We presently use thought to restore balance when it seems as if we have been thrown off balance. Laws are created by imbalanced people in an attempt to restore balance according to their idea of it; Nothing that is truly balanced can become imbalanced...

Student Talks: 10/16/2020 - Key Lesson: Part 1: We cannot live in fear of discovering the truth about ourselves, about our life... and hope to find the truth at the same time. Part 2: Here's an immutable spiritual law: we will never know all it's possible for us to be until we agree to consciously empty ourselves of all that we have been...

Topics covered: You have to be more in love with what you're discovering than what your mind is giving you to discover; The collapse of a civilization is inevitable; You can't legislate the inalienable right to freedom; Man-made laws come out of principles but are not the principles themselves; Life ceaselessly creates a center point; The secret of an awakened life; The restoration of identity...

Topics covered: Our work is to return to the understanding that love isn't something attained through objects; Judging doesn't prove difference, it proves similarity; To be a human being is to live with a constant disturbance; Creation is disturbance but we correspond it with pain; When you understand something you no longer live under its laws; You have to go through a process of being inward...

Classroom Talk: 7/28/2019 - One of the great, unseen contradictions in our life is that we can so easily "talk ourselves" into acting against our own best interests. If anything deserves our dedicated spiritual study then, surely, it must be how we can be deceived into jumping into a pit that we dug for ourselves!