Classroom Talk: 4/16/2023 - Never run from any moment you don't understand, as whatever your conflict may be in that moment with life... (it) will be waiting for you when, and wherever you come to a stop.

Classroom Talk: 6/4/2003 - Whether his fear is for the loss of some imagined estate, or for his longing to gain the respect of others, here is why no one can hope to ever possess that which he fears losing: As long as one's heart and mind is ruled over by any desire, such a person does not rule himself... And how can someone who doesn't even possess himself ever hope to own anything else?

Classroom Talk: 9/4/2002 - When we understand that our true purpose in life is to grow in the Wisdom of God's Plan, and that this Wisdom we seek itself seeks us to help it unfold in Goodness, then we also realize that whatever disappointments we encounter along the Way must themselves be a part of Wisdom's Eternal Plan. It is for this New Wisdom that we are spared from falling through that darkened door called discouragement...

Classroom Talk: 4/13/2005 - Evil transforms suffering into unconscious acts of blame, bitterness, and self-pity -- harmful forces that punish everyone; while the Good transforms these same dark states into conscious suffering -- creating humility that heals whomever it touches.

Classroom Talk: 4/13/2005 - Evil transforms suffering into unconscious acts of blame, bitterness, and self-pity -- harmful forces that punish everyone; while the Good transforms these same dark states into conscious suffering -- creating humility that heals whomever it touches.

Classroom Talk: 4/14/2004 - No weakness of ours persists that is not fueled by the unconscious fear we have of it; so to wake up and face this fear is the first step in erasing the weakness that it protects.

Classroom Talk: 4/23/2003 - Just as the still waters of a quiet pond effortlessly mirror the depths of the sky that towers above it, so does the silent mind reflect with ease upon the Divine that dwells within it.

Classroom Talk: 4/20/2022 - No one is free who has an ax to grind with any other person, let alone who grind themselves down with painful self-judgment believing, in vain, that self-punishment is somehow connected to self-perfection.

Classroom Talk: 4/26/2020 - Reclaiming rightful authority over our own mind and heart begins with seeing, very clearly, that the ease with which we make excuses for self-compromising choices is not the same as being in charge of ourselves.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of May 4, 2015. That we blame anyone or anything for our suffering reveals our blatant refusal to accept responsibility for our present level of consciousness. That we refuse to see this condition indicates an almost complete lack of conscience on our part; this fact is evidenced any time we agree to embrace a feeling of hatred born of resisting those mo...

Classroom Talk: 4/27/2022 - As surely as open skies can't be overcome by any cloud that may pass through them, neither can our True Nature be overwhelmed by any "dark" moment of life, regardless the shadow it seems to cast over it.

Student Talks: 4/12/2019 - Key Lesson: The real reason why our heroes in life often turn out to be "zeros"... is because our "number" was up in the same moment that we went looking for strength anywhere outside of our True Self.