Unconscious identification with any pain from the past -- especially as it involves, or otherwise lends support to some negative perception of oneself -- is a slow-acting poison that, once ingested, soon darkens the soul and leads to its destruction.

Awakening the power to see past the pain in our present condition is the pre-requisite to transcending it; such inner-sight is to these dark states within us as is the dawn to the night sky that cannot remain in its presence.

Topics Covered: Thought may be able to describe spiritual liberation, but it cannot enter into that level of consciousness; Every thought is connected to an identity that corresponds to its content; Three words that must become a single action: attention, intention, and persistence. Attending to a persistent intention. Learn to attend with persistence to a single intention...

Who we really are, in reality – our True Self – can no more be defined by what once happened to us – be it a day or decade ago -- than can the morning sunrise be measured by the moonlight that paves its way.

Stop struggling to escape the pain of the past; it can't be done. Why? Because it is the dark creation of an unconscious nature intent on remembering, and then reliving what it always claims it would give anything to forget.

Real life never stops starting over; but, before we can enter into its ceaseless flow and realize its perfect freedom, we must agree to let go of our identification with any past attachments that create a present sense of self.

In REAL life there are no "tracks" to follow, but thought runs along the tracks of memory, and memory always departs from, and returns to the same station: the PAST...

It's impossible to see, let alone walk the indefinable path of the presence moment until we realize we’ve been deceived into looking at virtually every moment of life through the “I”s of the past.

You cannot do the work of starting life over, and be busy reliving your past at the same time. Being new is a deliberate choice, an act of alignment that places you in conscious contact with a living presence that's incapable of repeating itself.

Classroom Talk: 06/14/2026 - The sleeping mind is a ghost. It doesn’t want to see how much it loves the haunted house it claims it can’t stand living in, but yet won’t leave.

Classroom Talk: 11/03/2024 - Persistence – without our awareness of the parts of us that steadily insist there’s no further we can go – is a recipe for frustration; this painful sense of self slowly morphs from simple despair into an unholy cynicism that, in turn, serves to confirm what we see as our own unwanted, but unavoidable conclusion: we’ve no other choice but to give up our wish to transcend whatever limitation we’d been called to outgrow.

Topics Covered: The reason we don't change is because of the reasons that we have for why we don't change; Staring over doesn't require adding something to yourself, but instead laying down what is presently interfering with the new start; There can be no negative reaction to any given moment without there being resistance to that moment. Negativity is the bitter fruit of...