Here is what the sincere seeker of truth must see if he or she would ever be free: Just as we have the creative power to manifest our desires, to turn thought into matter, so does the reverse hold true in the unseen world within ourselves. Desire also holds the power to transform the self held by that desire into the form of its nature...and no desire can ever be free.

Any time that we identify with some negative emotion, or otherwise self-compromising thought, we not only embrace what betrays and constrains us, but lend our will to what holds us captive. In this way we actually transform ourselves into becoming prisoners of our own unconscious act.

Believing that one of the many quarrelsome and competing parts at work within yourself can show you the way to a peaceful state of being is like hoping that you can find a quiet moment for yourself while walking along side a brass marching band!...

The discovery and happy realization of your true identity is made each moment in the same instant as you catch yourself having invested yourself in some mistaken identity.

There are two paths through life thought to lead one to a happy Wholeness. The first path is littered with all manner of glittering things that one thinks are needful to complete oneself, while the second path is the way of discovering what one can live without. The former path is always cluttered, and leads only to increased conflict and self-compromise, while the latter path is as simple as...

If we would spend but a hundredth of our time reflecting upon where we have been wrong that is spent churning over how others have done wrong to us, we could soon free ourselves of that terrible self-torment known as the need to be "in the right."...

If you must protect something in this life, let it be your connection to the truth that takes you to a life free of fear.

Topics covered: We have spent our entire lives running away from pain that we don't understand, hoping to reach a permanent pleasure in a time to come; The so-called heaven that we try to reach through thought always reveals itself to be a present self-created hell; "Thirty spokes share the hub of a wheel; yet it is its center that makes it useful. You can mould clay into a vessel; yet, it is its emptiness that makes it useful...

Topics covered: "Who am I?" and "What should I do?" are underneath just about every question we ask about life; There is no problem outside of what we have yet to understand about ourselves; If we had a real understanding of levels and scale, we would not be frantically asking "Who am I?" and "What should I do?" all day long; The perfect reflection of yourself is always there to be seen in each and every moment...

Topics covered: In any moment that you see beauty, you are not searching for anything to complete yourself; The world tells us that the way to complete ourselves is through acquisition, achievement and approval; We spend almost our entire lives trying to find the "partner of the moment" to complete us. Every partner we imagine has to be re-imagined when it doesn't live up to what we thought it would be...

Topics Covered: The reason we don't change is because of the reasons that we have for why we don't change; Staring over doesn't require adding something to yourself, but instead laying down what is presently interfering with the new start; There can be no negative reaction to any given moment without there being resistance to that moment. Negativity is the bitter fruit of...

Student Talks: 4/30/2021 - Key Lesson: Every truth ever discovered -- each new light that will ever burn bright -- already exists in our consciousness. All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice -- the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows -- awaits us within ourselves. Hidden in this truth...