Topics covered:  Presently we put our explanation of the moment over exploration of the moment. A reversal must take place. The first shall be last, and the last shall be first; The learning of real lessons is more important than anything else that takes place in our lives; An epiphany is the marriage between the exterior condition and the part of ourselves that is stirred by that condition; We are created to participate in the movement of life rather than trying to control it as we do now.

Topics covered: You can never be prepared for what you are given to see. However, you can understand the need to see what you are given to see; The only way you can come to the end of "you" is to see the necessity for it; There is anxiety behind the part of you that wonders when and how it will be done with what it has to go through; Having an interior dialog with yourself about a problem does not solve the problem. Instead it adds weight and...

Topics covered: You must learn to trust the love you have for Truth, as opposed to trusting the self that loves itself; Just because you can't yet do what you love, does not mean that love is not real; There is an intelligence that governs and sustains every creature that lives... at every level; How do we know that other people are wrong? How do we know that the moment should not be the way that it is? Because we live with an unseen knower...

Topics covered: Part of the purpose of a true school is to continually bring in front of your mind that which it does not want to encounter; We are convinced that we have to do something in order to free ourselves from negative states. The temptation to do something is suggested by the level of the negative state; Nothing can be healed in you until it is revealed in you; Something in us does not want a wrong relationship to change out of fear that...

Topics covered: The only pain you have is that you don't know that you see life through a set of eyes that although they can't see any differently than they do, you suffer for their poor vision. The pain is always in the nature of the see-er; You live in a world the size of the one that you see, and you don't know what else to look for; You have to see how absolutely useless it is for you to habitually suffer over the things you do...

Topics covered: The mind seeks in time what can only be given in the present moment, which is a relationship with the Divine that is already being given to you; Tension is the gap between what you imagine you need and how long it takes to get there; You will never find peace in a time to come. It doesn't exist there. The idea of a "time to come" is the very disturbance in which you live because you believe in things that you don't understand...

Topics covered: Every unwanted moment is the fear of death; God's life is a great undiscovered ocean that is already within you. The ocean doesn't exist outside of you and you have always been a part of it, but as yet you do not know how to participate. Seeing that you do not know is the beginning of participating; The fear of "un" is fear of the unknown, the undiscovered, the unwanted. Until you get over the fear of "un" you'll never know...

Student Talks: 4/5/2024 - Key Lesson: The reason why the search for the "Truth" of oneself is called "pathless"... is because it's not taken in steps, let alone in any known direction; rather, the "journey" to authentic self-liberation is found in our endless opportunity to enter into an ever-higher order of self-understanding that -- like the light in which it is revealed - never stops expanding. And... we are invited to travel along.

Classroom Talk: 6/2/2024 - It's well known that storm-tossed waves often expose new treasures along the shoreline... and there is unexpected wealth to be collected by those who know the secret value of rough seas. And yet, even though most of us have little tolerance for anything that "rocks our boat," the truth of the matter is self-evident: Unwanted moments introduce us to dark parts of ourselves that would otherwise never be realized...

Classroom Talk: 4/14/2024 - If -- by the light of remembering and considering what is Timeless, Holy, and True -- the heart is warmed and gradually enflamed, then the following must be true, even if yet to be seen: within us must dwell some sort of celestial kindling; what else can explain how such a flame is created, let alone serve as a light in the darkness of the soul... uniting the twain, making of them as one.

Classroom Talk: 12/11/2024 - There is no greater power for healing than the love of what is True; by its light we see and discover that every moment of our life bears a message just for us, and that if we will attend to that lesson, as honestly as we can, we are that much freer than the moment before. Persist with your wish to know the truth of yourself; use everything, and everything will serve your wish.

Student Talks: 11/08/2024 - Key Lesson: Persistence – without our awareness of the parts of us that steadily insist there’s no further we can go – is a recipe for frustration; this painful sense of self slowly morphs from simple despair into an unholy cynicism that, in turn, serves to confirm what we see as our own unwanted, but unavoidable conclusion: we’ve no other choice but to give up our wish to transcend whatever limitation we’d been called to outgrow.