Identification causes stupefication. Stupefication causes petrification. Petrification is spiritual death.

Topics covered: When we have pain in our relationship with others, we never turn to ourselves and wonder, "What is this about?"; We have no idea what to do about our pain, let alone why we have it; The people and problems in your life are not there to produce suffering, they are there to reveal to you something latent in your consciousness that you do not yet understand; There is no "self" without relationship. It is a mutually dependent experience...

Topics covered: Our suffering is solved the moment we find where it is that, without knowing it, we have been living from a nature that isn't just complicit with its continuity, but that can't live without it; What you give your attention to cannot be separated from the sense of self derived from it. Anything that captures your attention becomes your experience and your sense of self...

Classroom Talk: 12/13/2023 - We can't be more than we are given to see -- and to be -- IF we agree to allow that awareness to serve its given purpose in each moment. Which is to do what? To reveal -- at once -- all that remains concealed (from us) about our consciousness... so that it might be reconciled, re-integrated, and realize itself as part of a whole greater than the sum of its parts.

Topics covered: You are relieved from the false responsibility of trying to fix yourself or others when you understand the true root and meaning of the disturbance; The problem is not what you see in the mirror. The problem is that there is something in you that believes that what you see should not be there; Truly outgrowing something is not the same as imagining some other new identity to grow into...

Topics covered: Demands that you make on other people and on the world, that end up leading to your own misery, cannot possibly be your own; Demands that you believe originated with you were acquired by the divided consciousness that habitually looks outside of itself in order to find something that will complete it; "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light...

Classroom Talk: 5/1/2024 - Whether a captive of a moment -- or changed, and completed by it -- all depends on what we attend to in that same moment.

The worst thing about walking through life in your sleep is that being awakened actually feels like something bad just happened to you!...

The spiritual body that alone can stand the buffeting of unconscious opposing forces

No true spiritual growth is possible without (agreeing to) be uncomfortable.

In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley explains that nothing in creation flowers before its time. Our task to continue to carry with us the wish to understand, and what we wish to know will be given to us at the right time.

Classroom Talk: 7/10/2022 - The problems and pains that plague a divided mind disappear in the same moment as they appear in a mind unified with itself.