Classroom Talk: 2/23/2003 - About the only thing that we don't throw onto the fire when finding others at fault is the explosive fact of just how often we have found ourselves guilty of making the exact same mistake!

The real thing that's unwanted in any moment is not the event we blame for our pain. The actual source of (our) suffering is in having identified with a negative reaction, and then mechanically resisting this unconscious state now rooted in the darkness of our mind. In other words: resistance is the source of (our) pain, and not the event we blame for it. Once we see our complicity in the cr...

Topics covered:  "Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?" -- New Testament. There is no peace through thought; The pursuit of peace through thought is actually the prescription for uncertainty; Presently our faith is in the fear that promises freedom whenever what we call our freedom is challenged.

Student Talks: 06/26/2026 - To identify with any experience of life, no matter how whole it makes us feel in that moment must – at some point – reveal that the “experiencer” of that moment is, in fact, apart from it.

Student Talks: 03/13/2026 - 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: 11/17/2002 - If we could only see that any self that sits in judgment over us is not the perfected nature that it passes itself off as being, but is secretly an imperfection in us that only appears true to us due to the unexamined contrast it creates in us by its accusations, then we would at last strip off the mask of our accuser and be free to realize the truth of ourselves without self-destructive conflict.

Topics covered:  Presently you are looking to find your place in life. What you should be doing is seeing what is out of place in your life; Hidden within the reaction that says "Make something happen!" is the unseen belief that you will lose something valuable if you do not. The unseen fear that demands that you make something happen threatens you with loss if you do not do as it commands.

Topics covered:  We are born to search, but we keep running into dead ends, feeling like we are missing something. We only know to look for what our present level of understanding tells us is missing; "Metanoia" refers to the possibility of a higher part of ourselves that we are not present to. We would not know that we are presently blind were it not for an order of awareness that sees.

Topics covered: Part of our interior work is to discover that there is a part of us that does not want the pure water of truth; There is no imagination in the manifestation of any natural desire. On the other hand, all psychological desires are the product of imagination; There would not be a desire to complete ourselves -- through acquiring something outside of ourselves -- without the belief that there is something missing...

There is no painful state of psychological resistance to any given moment that isn’t preceded by some form of unseen demand that we have brought with us into that moment.