The spiritual body that alone can stand the buffeting of unconscious opposing forces -- that ultimately learns to harness them for its own development -- is further developed each time we struggle, as needed, to remember that nothing in this world (or the next) has the right to use our own attention against us.

Topics Covered: Thought may be able to describe spiritual liberation, but it cannot enter into that level of consciousness; Every thought is connected to an identity that corresponds to its content; Three words that must become a single action: attention, intention, and persistence. Attending to a persistent intention. Learn to attend with persistence to a single intention...

Topics covered: Can you help people on a downward spiral; I've had the experience that I don't exist; Were you afraid to let go of your dreams; Using knowledge as a crutch instead of taking action; What is our role regarding family, society, and the planet; Is the world of duality a mistake; I suffer from a compulsion that has stolen my possibilities; How does acceptance of our present state h...

Classroom Talk: 2/16/2020 - Rather than look outside of ourselves for familiar ways to escape old heartaches, let us turn our attention around... and choose, instead, to become aware of a (lower) level of consciousness that secretly enables the continuation of (our) suffering. In this new action, and the Light of revelation it creates...

Unattended thoughts are thieves; not only do they sneak in and steal your attention in exchange for the thrilling, but fleeting sensations they provide, but then they turn around and sell you 'insurance:' more thoughts promising to protect you from the inevitable sense of loss that always comes with having identified with an illusion.

Ever since I learned about the law of attraction (and have experienced it), I have stopped reading newspapers because I don't want to give my attention and energy to the conflicts in this world, but rather to peace and happiness. However, I feel like this is making me ignorant. I really do want to work towards international conflict resolution and peace, but what role should learning history a...

Classroom Talk: 3/23/2022 - The spiritual body that alone can transform the pressure of unconscious opposing forces -- that learns to use them for the continued realization of its own innate perfection -- is further developed each time we struggle, as needed, to remember that nothing in this world (or the next) has the right to turn our own attention against us.

Topics Covered: Seeing things retrospectively vs. reflectively; The circle of "self"; You cannot "clean the slate" the way you wish to; Using attention to penetrate the depths of yourself; I want to be the one who transforms myself; There is no release from myself through revisiting myself; You can't choose what you see about yourself; You can't deal with weakness retrospectively; Creation beg...

Topics covered: Why did you write the Relationship Magic book; Every limitation we need to transcend in ourselves is done through our relationships; Our relationships allow us to grow in a love that is unconditional; Being a parent requires self-development; As goes my attention, so comes my experience; Revealing allows a healing; Learning to let love come first; Shattering the patterns produc...

Topics covered: Identification is stagnation; We are locked out of life when we identify with our preferences; You can shift your attention between centers; Time ceases when the opposites are balanced; Every social conversation starts with identification; Learning to die to the part of you that judges others; There is a deep, dark collusion between our lower nature and our capacity to imagine...

The first step toward learning to make fearless choices in life begins with abandoning the fearful chooser.

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.