As we should already know; assuming we sincerely aspire to a higher level of being; our present nature wants little to do with seeing its own limitations. Instead of being self-investigating (as we're created to be), interested in discovering the truth of ourselves, our first inclination is in the direction of being self-deceiving. So that rather than doing the self-transforming...

Classroom Talk: 12/3/2023 - An important observation -- giving rise to an equally critical question -- that most people would rather avoid than do the work to realize its liberating answer: have you noticed there's no place on earth where you can hide that some moment you don't want... isn't still able to find you?

Classroom Talk: 4/30/2023 - The witness to experience is not bound by it, any more than a clear sky can be captured by a passing cloud, or a sound can seize the ear that hears it.

The "hard" part of this practicing of presence in the now is that our habitual mind, the false self, wants to know itself through one thought or another.

How does one stay awake, so to speak, in the dream world of sleep? A major part of our life is spent sleeping in bed. Does our spiritual work continue while we are sleeping? Would you consider dreams part of the false nature, and if so, are they just to be observed rather than be used -- as commonly referred to -- as subconscious insights? Every night I have a recurring dream about two people...

Student Talks: 2/7/2020 - Key Lesson: We cannot run away from what we don’t want to see in ourselves, any more than a mirror can escape whatever is reflected in it. And yet, to see the truth of this fact (about our present level of consciousness) is the same as transcending it, along with its pain.

Looking for the power to be happy is not found in a person, place, possession, idea, or belief, but through the new understanding that your higher, permanent nature needs no power outside of itself in order to be in charge of an inner or outer attacker.

Classroom Talk: 6/7/2020 - Part 1: Our refusal to consciously meet any form of self-limitation only guarantees that it will be there waiting to greet us again -- and again -- until we discover the real reason behind its self-liberating revelation: we are not what we fear seeing about ourselves, nor are we the fear-filled level of self that would have...

Student Talks: 5/5/2023 - Key Lesson: The witness to experience is not bound by it, any more than a clear sky can be captured by a passing cloud, or a sound can seize the ear that hears it.

We don't ever have to worry about happy endings to any of our life stories if we're awake enough to refuse all unhappy beginnings.

As I proceed with the new life lessons about winning the higher life, there are times where I have a disquieting feeling that I don't understand what I'm doing or, for that matter, even why I'm doing it! Sometimes I'm ready to just toss in the towel... After reading your work The Secret of Letting Go, I finally tried practicing some of its principles. I was overstressed at work and I decided...

It isn't this world that threatens or disturbs us. We are dominated by our own thoughts and feelings. We are taken over by our own reactions. This is painful for us because our original nature, our True Self, longs to be free and unencumbered by self-limiting, self-defeating, compulsive thoughts and feelings. The problem is, at our present undeveloped level, we believe that another person...