Classroom Talk: 5/8/2024 - Here's why no rest can be found in the thought (of any time to come) regardless how temporarily comforting it may seem: there is no end to the thinker's desire to resolve the angst inherent in its own conflicted thinking...an endless search for a solution to its own unseen, self-induced suffering.

What do you think about Valentine's Day?...

Learning to let go of our own constant mental chattering prepares us for the entrance of the Secret Self.

Remastered Classic Talk: 9/16/15 - The "fall" in the Garden of Eden was not for having received the knowledge of "good and evil," but rather that we -- soul consciousness -- fell into (and under) a level of being within which it was forgotten that -- save for the way thinking makes them appear -- no opposite exists apart from its other.

Heaven is understood through its reflection on this Earth. It is a mistake to imagine that we can directly understand the Divine's plan with the thinking mind. Even if we have a good understanding of spiritual principles, the thought is not the heavenly principle itself. Whatever we are feeling in any given moment is a reflection of a principle that we can be in relationship with.

Classroom Talk: 1/21/2005 - How strange it is that we resent carrying on our backs the pointed opinion of others, when it is we who give this barbed thought its power to trouble us. Think not? Then let us ask: what possible suffering can there be in what another thinks of me, unless I am holding the same thought as he?

Topics covered: There are two choices in any moment -- explanation or revelation; All thought has the same volume, but the pressure behind thought can vary; We live entirely from our external senses; 99.9% of thinking is passive; Real command of anything is found by dying to the part of you that would command it.

Counter to popular opinion, real success is not measured by the amount of our possessions. Simply stated, the truth is that real success -- ultimately the only success -- is determined by how much we are in actual possession of ourselves. And by the light of this great fact of life, we can also see that the person who fears the loss of what he thinks is his success has not truly succeeded.

Topics Covered: Spiritual attention is the beginning of humility; Nothing can happen in your spiritual work until you have your own attention; Our minds are always thinking things through; Conditions don't produce pain, they reveal the pained nature; Human beings are in a ceaseless spell; Humility is release from yourself; Awareness of your existence; There is no moment in which the observer i...

We are masters at fooling others into thinking we have command of ourselves, but any attempt to appear as anything other than what we are is not only a lie but an act of fear. There is no real consolation in that kind of self-consciousness, as it is a default role that has been selected for us without our knowledge.

Classroom Talk: 4/17/2022 - There is a very strange feature as concerns most human beings: we would rather feel anxious thinking about unwanted moments over which we have no power, than to practice placing our attention in the fact of that moment... where no thought is needed to build a bridge between ourselves, and a timeless peace whose Presence all of us seek.

After doing much practice of the new awareness you suggest, I have found that it's me who is first thinking painful thoughts and then resisting them (or feeling embarrassed over them). Yet, sometimes these images (mostly from my past) come automatically and I find myself bound to look at them, consider them, even when they're painful! It's here I am confused; am I intentionally creating these...