Topics covered: "We would not be interested in true interior Work unless somehow, on a daily basis, we lived with an unrequited Love. The capacity to know this Love is already seeded within us; The consciousness that we call "Christ" is the light that dwells within the darkness that the darkness cannot comprehend. The Christ is a living awareness."
Student Talks: 9/8/2023 - Key Lesson: Creating, and then identifying with its own negative reactions is one of the ways the "false self" works to hide the truth of its essential nothingness... from itself.
Student Talks: 1/24/2025 - Awakening is the (graduated) process of negating all forms of identification; (it is) the realization that no matter how real the feel of any familiar sense of self -- for its pleasure, or pain -- nevertheless: no sensation does a “self” make, any more than a wave on the sea makes the sea from out of which it rises, and must return.
Student Talks: 11/07/2025 -Here is a great spiritual paradox: none can hope to know the truth of their Divine Individuality until they have realized their all-inclusive similarity with everyone they meet.
Topics covered: Most human beings believe that they already know what love is, as well as what it means to be loved; To discover what love is begins with seeing what it is not; We believe that power is found in the part. It is that very belief that is the pain.
Topics Covered: Life is relationship, and it is love that oversees every kind of relationship; Healing has to begin with us, not with getting someone else to heal; Our impatient negative reactions can be transformed into a healing force by the higher love that cannot compromise itself; In this world, might makes right, which is justified by the lower level of consciousness that believes it needs...
When two people each love the Truth, the Truth they love becomes the love between them.
No one can come to know Real Love who has not yet learned what it means to listen, and no one can learn to listen who has not been called by Love.
Part I: One cannot have a true wish for the love of God without it being God's Love making that wish (within him), any more than one could wait in hopeful anticipation of a sunrise who had never before stood in the warming rays of dawn's early light. Part II: It is Love that delivers life's lessons, that teaches them, and that is made Wise through them. And, in the end, Love is the lesson l...
Topics Covered:Worldly inspiration can be beautiful, but it can only take us so far. Real inspiration is connected to one's realization that worldly ambitions cannot complete us; The older meaning of perfecting oneself was connected to the idea of completing oneself, completing a journey; Seeing the futility of the path of trying to complete ourselves is the same as stepping onto the true path...
All partial loves prove themselves to be just that; and in their inevitable passing we are always returned to that bitter-sweet realization that the love we long for can never become the possession of the self that longs.
I know that your absence from my life is less a question of your love for me than it is of mine for you.