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...

Classroom Talk: 12/01/2024 - Take Your Rightful Place in the Divine Revelation of Life

Know thy tendency. Struggle to be. Remember the "I" that can see. Refuse the temptation to identify with resistance; it belongs to a lower level of self that can never be free.

Resistance is self-love of the negative kind. And whoever embraces its denying force guarantees, through its re-creation, the reincarnation of yet another dark relationship that will soon be equally spurned.

Whenever we collide with any event, and then run away from the scene of the crash, we lose the opportunity to discover that the only collisions we have in life are with what we have yet to understand about ourselves.

Our need to change, to be made new, is constant; however, so is our resistance to change. The former is inseparable from the freedom it heralds, while the latter ensures the continuation of patterns...

Topics covered: Life contains a mystery that you're drawn to -- it's the mystery of yourself; Agape is a type of love connected to giving yourself up as a higher form of sacrifice for the love of another. It doesn't add something to you, it costs you something - only then do you find yourself being given something in return you couldn't have received any other way...

Topics covered: If you are going to be skeptical, then be skeptical about the inevitability of the pain and suffering that comes with struggling against the world; There is useless struggle, and then there is useful struggle. The proper kind of useful struggle is to peer into yourself so as to discover the truth of yourself; We are captives of our ideas about what it means to be free.

Topics covered: What we take to be certainty is really uncertainty masquerading as certainty; A person's entire destiny can be changed by the willing reception of a truthful idea; Negative reactions are difficult to let go of because when they come along there is no part of the reaction that says, "There's a painful negative reaction"; Observation of a negative reaction allows us to consciously doubt it.

Classroom Talk: 03/08/2026 - The fact that we can be aware of – a witness to the experience of our own reactions proves, undeniably, the existence of a higher order of being that is not bound by them, let alone to the subsequent actions they tell us we must take.

Classroom Talk: 7/4/2003 - No one can say "No" to this world who is afraid to walk through it alone. The unseen cost of this baseless fear is not just to keep the company of cowards, but to lose one's possibility of ever coming to know the company of the Divine.

Topics covered:  No one is ever going to save themselves;  Our minds create the illusion that we are separate from the condition that is being judged;  You don't know who you are without not wanting to be who you are. You don't know who you are without a time to come.