Classroom Talk: 8/22/2021 - Part 1: There is no solving the mystery of ourselves without having first solved the mystery of our suffering... which is why so few become self-realized, let alone set free. Part 2: Useless suffering has but a single cause. It rests within a deeply-seated, punishing illusion that Life - as it unfolds before and within us - is somehow interfering with our own best, and truest interests.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of May 22, 2017. Sitting in silent judgment of others is the coward's way of picking a fight and winning it... all without having to do a single thing other than to just be the instrument of an unseen negativity.

Classroom Talk: 11/22/2023 - The "importance" of any given moment is inseparable from whatever may be the momentary sense of "self" responsible for lending it that significance. If we are to have any hope of realizing what is actually important in this life -- which is to see through the illusion of a separate self -- then we must be honest enough to admit the following truth: What really makes one moment seem more important than any other...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 22, 2018. We must persist in finding out that we don't know what we think we do... until the presence of any "knower" within us is seen as being one and the same as the cause of all our useless suffering.

Wishing to be free, without taking action toward our intention, is meaningless; we must employ the truths we uncover, or we will never realize the possibility of their true power, which is to help us walk away from what has been wrecking us. But with this new understanding in mind we must also realize that the truth that sets us free is not for hire; it does not so much "work" for us as...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 22, 2018. The grand illusion and, in the end, the unseen source of psychological fear and pain is our unconscious perception of disquieting moments that "tells" us we are not responsible, let alone accountable, for the unwanted experiences that come our way.

Remastered Classic Talk: 06/22/16 - If someone can say something to you about yourself that causes you to crash and burn -- so that you never stop smoldering over what they have said -- it's only because you have yet to see the truth of yourself. Here's the fact that not only proves the above, but within it rests the only real solution to this kind of suffering: Any truth you realize about yourself cancels both the fear of that truth as well as the level of self that lives in fear of it.

 

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of September 22, 2014. Part 1: Attending to, completing what the present moment asks of you... is the business of real Life. In the silence of this relationship is revealed and received, at once, the wisdom and wealth of your True Self. A few of these timeless riches include: a faith no fear can shake, an innocence no temptation can break, and a freedom...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of June 22, 2015. Much in the same way Mother Nature calls the salmon back to its native stream, to spawn and then to die there -- that through this sacrifice the great cycle of its species may be renewed and start again -- so has the Divine seeded within your soul a longing to return to its celestial headwaters; where -- by a similar sacrifice of laying...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of April 22, 2013. There are three ways to get what one wants from life: cunning, industry, or love. The 'crafty' ones inevitably trap themselves. Industry is good, but at best, conditional, for it is subject to the passage -- and ravages -- of time. Love, on the other hand, liberates; and it is timeless. In the end, the love of something is its own rewa...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of December 22, 2014. Starting out, the aspirant believes his struggle is just to awaken himself. But, as he awakens, the aspirant sees an increasing need to serve others in their wish to be free. Finally, the aspirant realizes that his struggle was never just for himself, or for those he met along the way, but to take part in the awakening of human cons...

Topic: Cultivate Conscious Self-Doubt and Stop Arguing with Life (12/22/21 Classroom Talk)