Given time, whatever degree of dependency we help to create in others will eventually prove itself a prison of our own making... For there is no form of psychological dependency that doesn't make a captive of whoever may be involved in that relationship... including the one who unknowingly initiated it.

Being in conscious relationship with what is Holy in life is only as possible as we are willing to see, and to be, accordingly, the whole of who and what we are in each moment...

Topic: Stand in the Fire That Doesn't Burn and Be Set Free (1/3/16 Classroom Talk)...

Part 1 The priceless Gift of Life can't be freely received -- as it is forever being freely offered -- as long as we meet it with any demands upon it.

Topic: Are You Being Courted by Love? (1/4/15 Classroom Talk)...

Topic: The First Step Towards Making Better and Brighter Life Choices (1/6/21 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Stand in the Fire That Doesn't Burn and Be Set Free (1/3/16 Classroom Talk)...

The way we think of ourselves is a reflection of our past; Learn to live with what you see; Ideas are not action, knowledge is not wisdom; You suffer over your present understanding; Love never interferes with another person's life; All of your actions have ambition in them; There is no reaction without position; You are here to outgrow a level of consciousness; Real acts of will...

Topics covered: There is an insatiable, hungry ghost that lives in a human being and its life is tomorrow; The wanted is not an answer to the wanter, it's an extension of it; The nature that wants doesn't exist without the feeling of being incomplete; The world you long for has nothing to do with anything you can think of; You arrive at the new world when you die to the one you're in; A spirit...

Our experience of any given moment cannot be any more complete than is our willingness to completely receive it.

Topics covered: What is the distinction between presence and pursuit; I struggle to deal with a family member who has a disability; Should I go back on my word with people who I now feel are detrimental to my spiritual path; I often feel a physical reaction of tension when I come back to myself; I regularly wake up in the night and am flooded with negative thoughts; I'm confused about the diff...

Here’s exactly why we need a moment-to-moment awareness of our (own) thoughts and feelings, let alone what they may be telling us is true about ourselves, and our relationships in life: nothing comes "tomorrow" that isn't born in the Here and Now.