Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of December 18, 2017. It is impossible to let go of any painful thought or troubling feeling until you see the parts of yourself that are secretly clinging to it.

Classroom Talk: 3/10/2019 - Part 1: For those willing to see it... the proof of our still consensual, self-compromising relationship with a lower level of consciousness is self-evident: after all, one of the only things that seems to be growing stronger in us - day by day - is the ease with which we're willing to excuse, or otherwise explain away some weakness...

The more unwanted moments you're willing to walk into, the fewer unwanted moments will you have to go through.

Consciousness of any unwanted condition in us must precede its correction, just as the rising sun dismisses the fear hiding in the darkness of night.

Classroom Talk: 7/21/2019 - Part 1: Many are those who love, but only because they are loved, and so their love is not true. But those who love, in spite of being spurned... their love alone is true. Part 2: Don't do what hurts another, but not for the sake of being someone who doesn't do what he believes his "goodness" forbids...

Dyed-in-the-wool alcoholics don't care whether they get their next buzz from a $5 or $500 bottle of bourbon. In much the same way, our lower nature -- that loves and lives only for some kind of sensation -- drinks without discrimination from whatever "bottle" is at hand; it cares for one thing, and one thing only: that it might lose itself in yet another temporary titillation.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of November 24, 2014. Part 1: No one escapes the painful illusion of duality -- the progenitor of fear, and all of one's futile efforts to escape it -- without sacrificing the divided level of one's self responsible for its continuous manifestation. Part 2: One's 'self' is the only thing that one can be in charge of... And yet, paradoxically, this highes...

Since what other people do to you is not in your power to change, you need only concern yourself with what you do to yourself, for that is in your power.

Classroom Talk: 8/31/2025 - There's no such thing as having a bad day, only our (present) inability to see the Good in it.

Student Talks: 11/27/2020 - Key Lesson: Only by daring to see the truth of ourselves in challenging moments will we ever see, and then be set free by the revelations that await us there. For instance, the "weight" of any relationship that seems to overpower us is inseparable from our resistance to what it brings up in us...

Classroom Talk: 8/13/2023 - Negative reactions -- in fact any form of painful resistance -- prevail only when we fail to remember it is -- at once -- our Divine right, and our work to transform, and transcend them.

Key Lesson: Nothing real lives outside the flow of life except for an imagined self whose sense of "I" consists of insisting that life never deviate from the direction it imagines will lead it to freedom.