Classroom Talk: 5/26/2024 - Forgiveness is not the blind acceptance of what is dark, sinful, or just plain evil; real (forgiveness) begins with seeing the need  to transcend our own negative reaction to whatever we summarily find as wanting in someone else. After all, whose limitation is it when the best we know how to do (with those who have hurt us) is to hate -- or otherwise resent them... and go on blaming them for the pain they've revealed still lives in us?

Student Talks: 12/06/2024 - The spiritual journey is not a movement through time, as if one travels from "here to there"; rather, it is an indwelling realization of the interaction of celestial forces giving birth to an immaculate conception; and where, for one's awareness of this relationship, one's sense of self ceases to be a mere effect – an unconscious byproduct born of being identified with some passing event – and instead, one begins to realize oneself as a partner in the Divine revelation of Life.

Classroom Talk: 9/11/2024 - For anyone with ears to hear, there is but one question and one answer: will we wait patiently for a single moment of relationship with what is eternal and real? Where - by the ineffable touch of something as unknowable as it is timeless - all the moments of our life - past, present, and future - are forever changed? Otherwise, we waste the precious few moments of our life chasing the pleasure of an imagined time to come that recedes from our grasp in the same instant that we reach for it.

Classroom Talk: 8/18/2024 - When, before our inner eyes, we always have someplace better to be, or find ourselves struggling to "add a cubit to our stature," we miss seeing two great liberating truths: First, all imagined destinations are dreams whose promised fulfillment fades the nearer we draw to them...and secondly, blinded as we are by our hope in this "tomorrow" that never comes, we miss seeing - and realizing - that our True Self is a field of possibilities whose riches are not only immediate, but everlasting.

I don't think I have to tell you - but I'll strengthen the idea - that there's nothing in the universe, not one thing, that doesn't have meaning. I can look out the window on a gorgeous Spring day here in Southern Oregon and see all the bounty, the burgeoning green - it has a meaning that words can't give to it but that the experience itself delivers...

Knowledge doesn't exist without the past, while the Light of higher self-awareness has no past.

Real life never stops starting over; it is the eternal showcase of the Divine.

We will have to repeat whatever we fail to complete in (this) life... until that work is done.

Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view!

Resisting the revelation of any existing limitation of ours... is like fearing the ocean because we never took the time to learn how to swim!

No unwanted experience of life will ever be "over" for us until we're inwardly awake enough...to get over wishing that it was.

Negative imagination is the preferred intoxicant of an unconscious nature that loves to first pour, and then... to drink, as deeply as possible, from its own dark cup of troubled dreams!