Topics Covered: We presently spend too much time in worldly pursuits because we don't know that there is another world that sits above this present level of consciousness; Real peace cannot be interrupted. Real peace looks for nothing and wants for nothing; Most of our attention is dedicated to a "time to come" in which there will be a "me" that will find peace and be free...

Topics explored in this dialogue: What is the True Self; As you give attention to a painful thought or feeling, you enter into its painful world; Consciousness will not contradict itself; Before you can be different you must be aware of the times you're about to repeat behavior that has never worked; Our consciousness cannot grow without the darkness (within us) being met by the light.

Topics covered: There is no choice when you're being pushed through something; You have no power to change yourself, only to what you give your attention; The more whole you are in each moment, the purer your impressions; In every act of consciousness there is a sacrifice; When you punish yourself it's always because you didn't measure up to your own expectations; Nobody deliberately hurts the...

Look closely at what a person struggles with in life; the actual nature of what he or she is fighting to possess, protect, or win. To what does he give his time, most of his attention? To what end her plans, the things she pursues and puts first each day? Such is the only real way to measure the true nature of anyone's character, including our own.

Topics Covered: The awareness of one's existence is an unqualified sense of "I"; Awareness is the presence in this moment; I am the vine, ye are the branch; We don't give ourselves life - we are sustained; A school is a hatchery; The moment your attention doesn't belong to you it belongs to the world; GF described a mystical experience while meditating; When the dream ends, the dreamer is gone...

The more we allow our mind to drift where -- and will -- as it pleases, the more likely will we find ourselves having fallen into some form of unexpected suffering...

Classroom Talk: 1/8/2020 - Where is tomorrow's fear other than in today's troubled imagination? And, if this is true, and IT IS... Then, what to do with our attention now? Let it be swallowed up in the dark shadow of what "may be"... Or, hold it in the Light of higher awareness where no shadow can dwell, let alone its fear?

Why is it so important to be awake? Isn't it actually a kind of self-centeredness to always have my attention on myself? No, it isn't a selfish act...far from it. The answer is that in the Truly awake state, there is no thinking about oneself at all. God's Life is revealed in the moment. The present moment holds everything--bliss, pain, light, dark, and everything in between. When a human bei...

Look closely at what a person struggles with in life; the actual nature of what he or she is fighting to possess, protect, or win; to what does he give his time, most of his attention? To what end her plans, the things she pursues and puts first each day? Such is the only real way to measure the true nature of anyone's character, including our own.

Classroom Talk: 10/27/2024 - Our first action - regardless of circumstance - must be to give our complete attention to all we are being given to see, and to be...accordingly. In this way, we not only come to discover there's a Divine order at work in our life but - even as we learn how to comply with it - we realize ourselves as part of its fearless perfection.

Topics Covered: Getting carried away by thought; "I" has a feeling to it that is instantly familiar; Consciously saying "I love you" requires presence; The world has become cheapened; Until you have your own attention, your life is not your own; Wrestling with the angel; Love doesn't hate, have an enemy, have a past, measure, compare, inflate, or self-stimulate; Throwing a toothpick in front o...

Topics covered: There is nothing more mysterious than the Holy Spirit; Awareness is the initial presence of the Holy Spirit; Talking to yourself is the reconciling force of the devil; All forms of fanaticism are the result of misused sexual energy; Learning to borrow will from reason; An experience is complete when all parts are involved in the moment; Will, attention, and conscience are wedde...