Classroom Talk: 9/21/2022 - Here is the real "secret" of starting over: No moment in life can be any newer than we are willing to be... that is, assuming we continuously agree to step -- consciously -- into its timeless stream.

Remastered Classic Talk: 6/28/17 - 

Part 1: Only complete action on our part has the power to teach us, completely, those lessons that real Life would have us learn.

Part 2: Regardless of circumstance, our first action must be to give our complete attention to all that we are being given to see, and to be... accordingly. This is how we realize the Good: the all-at-once justice and mercy that lay hidden in every moment of time.

We want to be free of unpleasant inner states but refuse to bear the weight of them which is a mandatory interim state between the burden of self and release from it.

Have you ever noticed that when you're under the cloud of some negative state, what you do to try to "make things better" actually makes the situation worse? Struggling to free yourself from your own negative reactions is a bit like throwing gasoline onto a fire, isn't it? Recognizing that you get trapped in this pattern of taking action that neither relieves nor rescues you from...

Topics covered: It isn't your anger or fear or depression. They belong to a level of consciousness that is asleep to itself; The more we listen to conditioned reactions, the more we become a captive of that consciousness and suffer accordingly; The mind projects a negative and unavoidable tomorrow from its own conditioned content. It then reacts to its own projected image...

Classroom Talk: 6/4/2023 - Part 1: We cannot know the depth and breadth of our highest, heavenly possibilities as long as we fear to explore, realize, and release all that keeps us bound to this earth. Part 2: Our unconscious conditioning goes before us every moment, acting as the unseen judge, jury, and "executioner" of each, and every moment of our life.

Until our wish is to be present and responsive to the real needs of friends, family, and even strangers -- more than we want to be seen as important in their eyes -- we serve no one... not even ourselves.

Classroom Talk: 7/16/2004 - Seeking the approval of others -- in the hope of measuring the worth of ourselves -- makes as much sense as looking for our reflection in a falling drop of rain, with the main difference being this: A raindrop actually lasts longer than does that fleeting sense of self we win for having sold our soul for another empty smile.

Classroom Talk: 7/18/2021 - Part 1: Nothing serves to create a greater sense of isolation -- a feeling of being cut off from life -- than being at the center of your own thoughts about yourself; where you live out your days as a castaway on the "island of self" upon which you have, unknowingly, agreed to abandon yourself. Part 2: No worldly acclaim, possession, or relationship with...

Part 1: You are responsible for every impression you make on others; however what they make of your work is no longer your responsibility. Part 2: Nothing is easier than to be offended; it is the dark expression of an unconscious level of self that believes feeling indignant toward those who fail to show it proper deference proves its superiority over them. This is like believing that jumping...

It's impossible to separate a false purpose in life from the pain that it produces.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of April 2, 2018. Until our wish is to be present and responsive to the real needs of friends, family, and even strangers -- more than we want to be seen as important in their eyes, we serve no one... not even ourselves.