If we continue looking for a sense of our self in the various temporary worlds we've created to find ourselves within, all we can hope to find therein is a sense of futility, frustration and ever-fleeting happiness whose flip side is sorrow.

Classroom Talk: 5/10/2023 - Never fight with life; your struggle is not with what opposes you, but rather with what you have yet to understand about the opposing forces that live within you.

Topics covered: When you see the truth of something, there is no judgment or negativity in it. Real knowledge might have sorrow in it, but never anger or violence; Every time that you identify with a thought, you are actually praying for the experience that you don't want; You could not have so many things that you don't want without comparison; The only thing that you suffer over psychologically is what you know...

Topic: Attract the Higher Influences that Free You from the Lower Self (Remastered Classic Talk)(Classroom Talk 4/16/25)

You cannot make yourself whole anymore than a wave can make an ocean. But, you can rise above the waves of frustration, that tempest of anger whose soul-eroding pain would have you believe that you are more than you can be in any given moment.

Letting go of who you think you are and making contact with the Secret Self are actually one and the same. But what is the Secret Self? We don't have to look upon this invisible part of ourselves as anything mysterious, for it is not. In fact, this sacred nature within wants only to reveal itself and to show those with eyes to see the wonders of their own hidden heavens. This is what our s...

There is really no such thing as a "new year." What does exist is the rare human being who has entered into a relationship with Truth. That man or woman is renewed moment to moment to moment. If we are not renewed, then by default we are reliving the past, which makes it impossible for us to experience anything new.

Part I: Our irritation with another person's insensitivity isn't because he is self-serving, but because he isn't serving us as we are sure we ought to be served! Part II: The world we live in is only as imperfect as we are.

Key Lesson: 
Whatever storms you are given to face on your long journey back home, work to remember this truth... and be assured the day will dawn when you will know the unconditional freedom you seek: Your struggle is with yourself, and yourself only.

Topics Covered: Sensations and mechanical associations; Torment of inner dialog; Emotional pain and depression; Awareness vs. positive affirmations; Observer is the observed; Role as a bridge; Controlling nature; Resistance and fear; Concept of relaxation; Trying and failing; Worry about what other people think about you; Putting the work into practice; True forgiveness.

Topics Covered: We are already a part of something whose power cannot be denied, even when it is refused; Never run from the fear of feeling powerless, and if you don't run you will be given, by grace, the power to see that everything you feared was a lie; The feeling of being powerless is in fact a doorway into a relationship with something that can never be made to feel...