Topics covered:  Spiritual wisdom is in discovering the mastery of God. Within us lives this mastery; Every time someone does not agree with you, you experience the fear of death. Anxiety is the avoidance of the fear of death. Anger hides the fear of death; Behind every form of psychological resistance is the fear of death.

Only by our deliberate interior work to realize a world within and yet beyond our self do we make this glad discovery: the freedom that we long for is not the product of any experience; it precedes it -- going before both the purpose and product of our plans.

Topics covered: Real freedom is not something that we obtain from the world. Real freedom comes about through understanding our true relationship with the world; Real freedom does not have a beginning or an end. Real freedom is now or never; A thousand imagined freedoms eventually turn into a thousand prison cells. But ultimately it's all illusion and all the same prison cell.

Topics covered:  There is no becoming in the Kingdom of Heaven. In that Kingdom it is already done. You are separate from that Kingdom because of a misunderstanding about your true nature; "From unreality lead me to the real, from darkness to the light, from death to immortality." -- The Upanishads (circa 800 – 200 B.C.E.); Somehow you are going to have to die to everything that you think you are.

Topics Covered: Genuine change is not something that we can imagine. "Our hopes must not be in things seen"; What we imagine will bring an end to our tension is in fact inseparable from the cause of it. The things that we imagine will free us from stress turn out to be prisons; All psychologically rooted tension has its beginning in resistance; The real root of continual, chronic tension...

Until we learn the one Great Lesson that what we want from life must play a secondary role to what Life asks of us -- which is to grow in the timeless qualities of selflessness such as self-sacrifice, kindness, and love -- then we will remain unable to share in the abiding sense of peace and freedom that comes to us only as we realize the true purpose of our being.

Topics Covered: The root of the sleeping consciousness is separation itself; Something has to die for something to be born; The form passes away, but the creator of the form never dies; The responsibility is to be in your body aware of yourself; Don't give a voice what wants to find something to blame for the pain; Darkness is the absence of light, not the proof that light doesn't exist...

Topic: How to Exchange Anxiety and Fear for Endless Freedom (9/9/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: The Cost of Spiritual Freedom (Classroom Talk 11/23/22)

Topics Covered: The first shall be last, and the last shall be first; Judgment of yourself is the continuation of karma; Don't try to be calm, be present to the storm; Realization is the release from the identity from of resistance; Each moment is a perfect mirror; To be spiritual is to see; Genuine prayer comes from seeing, not from wanting; Separating the wheat from the chaff...

Part I: Any "god" we go in search of to free us from our fear is a false god created by a false god. We must throw away all false gods and their prison of time into which we rush whenever we pursue powers. Instead we must learn to turn around within ourselves and face the first false god: the self that sends us out of ourselves to find freedom. There is no freedom outside of the Light...

Topic: Find the Freedom that Has No Name (6/9/21 Classroom Talk)