Classroom Talk: 9/25/2024 - Here's why it's impossible to (try and) protect ourselves from the fear of uncertainty or disappointment and - at the same time - hope to deepen our relationship with the Divine: self-realization is (our) atonement with the ceaseless revelation that emptiness and fullness are to one another...as are the four seasons that seemingly turn from one into the other.

Classroom Talk: 7/24/2024 - The true purpose of any troublesome “mountain” that seems to appear out of nowhere – standing directly between us and what we want -- isn't to make us into better climbers, or even to finally crest its summit; such barriers exist for a single reason: to help us see that no impassable “mountain” exists apart from the unconscious mind that has created it.

Student Talks: 3/22/2024 - Key Lesson: Once we learn what it means to see ourselves, to accept every impression as the herald of the new self-knowledge that it brings, then we will not only understand what it means to welcome each such revelation - whether wanted, or not - but to receive, with grace, whatever we are given to see as being true about ourselves.

Classroom Talk: 10/27/2024 - Our first action - regardless of circumstance - must be to give our complete attention to all we are being given to see, and to be...accordingly. In this way, we not only come to discover there's a Divine order at work in our life but - even as we learn how to comply with it - we realize ourselves as part of its fearless perfection.

Classroom Talk: 10/13/2024 - The first place to look any time you feel a sudden stab of pain is to see that not only is the sting of this moment a creation of your own hand, but also to see how - in that very same moment - you're being handed the reasons why you have no choice but to struggle with, and suffer over what amounts to a self-inflicted wound.

Classroom Talk: 6/16/2024 - Those who live in dreams never realize how deep runs the temptation to dwell in them. Only those who have had a moment in the Sun -- who've glimpsed by its light what is real, and what is not -- understand something of the nature of the shadows in which they live, as well as how easy it is to forget that all of them... are unreal.

Topics covered:  People go into pain over being told that their pain is self-inflicted; Most of us are more interested in trying to answer our pain (resolve it) than in understanding it; The very last thing that a human being wants to do is give up their suffering.

Classroom Talk: 7/21/2024 - Until the peace and pleasure found within us is equal to - or greater than any consolation found outside of ourselves - then our power to be patient, loving, and profitable in every moment is, at best, conditional; nothing better serves to sustain anger, frustration, and fear than being identified with a level of self whose life is founded, at best, upon the sands of passing circumstances.

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:  Our lives are spent in an almost endless conflict with everyone and everything that we believe to be the cause of our pain and negativity; We pretend to be someone because we do not know who we really are; Discovering who you really are comes with the cost of discovering all that you are NOT.

Topics covered:  Seeing what is true is what then allows you to take a new action; You struggle because all you know to do is fight with what you don't want. This is what the world teaches;It doesn't matter how often you rearrange the stuff in your closet, nothing is new.

Topics covered:  Anytime that we momentarily enter into a new dimension of our own understanding, it opens the door for everyone else; When you see something new, you are new. You are introduced to a new relationship within yourself; Seeing something new is the sudden removal of a wall of thought that obscures what has always been there.