Part 1: All attachments are secret heartaches disguised as lovers. Part 2: Psychological suffering is not the effect of some unwanted change in the way events unfold; rather this pain is born of wanting nothing to change that challenges our false assumptions about life that, once rattled, shake our sense of self.

Topics Covered: We are currently identified with an unconscious nature that is incapable of knowing anything real and permanent; We cannot be at peace with anything as long as we are identified with what we believe peace is; Our minds are always trying to take what we think is good and make it last forever. This level of mind makes an enemy out of anything in life that runs...

Topics Covered: Pride is inseparable from identification and attachment; Thought is always superficial; Thought is a buffer; Animals are at peace with themselves; Why can't I sit still; There's no noise in Being that Being doesn't use to further ground it in its own nature; Peace is understanding that disturbance has a purpose that the mind can never know but that your soul is designed to be a...

Only through our willingness to be made aware of all that we are -- high and low, light and dark -- will we ever come to realize the perfect freedom now lying dormant in our own celestial possibilities.

Whenever we love someone (even a natural wonder or common creature), we know that our own higher emotional state awakens in us a kind of exalted energy; one that seems to melt barriers and that brings us into relationship with our beloved in ways beyond our understanding. But that's not all: not only does this unseen force of life grant us access to the secret regions of our beloved's heart bu...

Topics Covered: Sanity is a state of mind and of being that is at peace; The great task for all spiritual aspirants is to be completely what you are as you are being completed; The whole of life cannot be separated from that which is giving life; The orignal meaning of the idea of "sin" was connected to "missing the mark"; Thinking about tomorrow's plans to find peace and fulfillment is...

Unhappy feelings are born out of life failing to conform to your ideas of what you need to be happy. This shows you, if you will see it, that life itself isn't denying you happiness. It is your ideas about life that have failed you. Give up these wrong ideas instead of giving up on life. Be increasingly willing to see they are nothing but a constant source of conflict. Your false nature will...

I am still on a long and tough inner journey. After many years of struggling with this rough nature, it still will not release me. I remain pretty much me even though there are fleeting moments of peace. I try to bear the pain when it's there and embrace the peace when it comes because I really don't know what else to do. I still get so frustrated at times, and then I have to catch myself. I s...

Classroom Talk: 3/1/2020 - Real Life is a miracle revealing itself. The eyes that can see this truth are those no longer blinded by (all) the empty promises inherent in the illusion of passing time; to see things as they are...is to be what you are; to be what you are, without wanting to become anything more or less... is enlightenment.

The moment that you see that the only thing you really fear in this life is what you've mistaken yourself to be, you'll also see the interior path that leads to a fearless life. Take this path and you will find a greatness that is the source of fearlessness itself.

Freedom, real freedom, does exist. But it is not a condition of events, nor is it found within another person's approval of us. Neither is real freedom ever a mere effect of circumstances, otherwise it is not freedom but merely a temporary pleasure we have mistaken for being the same as being free...

Helpful ideas about what is required of us if we wish to realize our True Nature, and offering specific examples of how to do the inner work necessary to align ourselves with the Eternal Truth that lives within us.