Student Talks: 9/1/2023 - Key Lesson: No one is obligated to "love thy neighbor as thyself," let alone to seek and find one's place in the Great Circle of Life; yet, "it is written" in the stars themselves: all must eventually pay for what they have done against themselves, or others. For Justice through balance is Divine Law, enforced by its tireless, unfailing love...

Student Talks: 12/20/2023 - Key Lesson: To everything there is a season, and life's great cycles of expansion and contraction -- of yes and no -- serve no individual save the one who has uncovered the secret of being in the world, but not of it.

Student Talks: 10/27/2023 - Key Lesson: Any time the mind makes a "package" out of some unwanted moment -- wrapping its reaction (to it) in familiar troubled thoughts, and negative feelings -- it does so at the cost of exchanging a priceless gift it's been given... in favor of giving itself another painful experience (of itself) that it doesn't know it's created for itself!

Topics covered: Our lives are currently predicated on dealing what is unreal, the pursuit for answers to suffering that is blamed on outside conditions that seem to be responsible for the suffering but in reality are not; Every image that comes into your mind to lend you a sense of security also comes with a second force built into it that will prove it is unreal; A false sense of self, a false identity...

Topics covered: The mind believes that it possess what it imagines. However, to be in imagination is to be separate from what you are thinking about; Humanity is spiritually asleep, and the purpose of a true spiritual school is to show men and women that very fact; The fox blames the trap. The real nature of the trap is the nature of the fox that is identified with what it wants.

Topics covered: What is eternal and timeless exists even within the seemingly mundane; Energy that is not squandered can be used to find the truth that from lower consciousness is hidden, but yet that is found in the center of all things; The stage of life where you are now is just as necessary as every other stage that comes before or after; The kind of freedom that is connected to...

Stress, anxiety, and tension are the dark jewels adorning a thorny crown we must wear whenever we try to live more than one moment at a time.

As long as we are at war within ourselves with all of the stress and sorrow such conflict breeds, everyone around us is a potential casualty of our pain.

Stressful worry helps no one -- not those we are concerned about, and certainly not us. Such worry heals nothing; instead, it hurts all who mistake its dark embrace as a path to empowerment. The only thing worry serves is to strengthen the grip of our fearful expectations and, in so doing, holds us captive in a bad dream of our own making.

Topics covered: The only times that you get upset in your life is when your psychological routine is disrupted; The acronym "ERAMS" from the doctor story stands for "Everything Revolves Around Me Syndrome"; Our addictions, whether physical or psychological, begin with the thought that the addictive routine will release us from the feeling of being unbalanced. Identification with the object of the addiction...

The difference between individuals who always ache when life zigs instead of zags, and those souls who are learning to walk away from these continuously stressful places is this: The first group tends to see their pain as a result of not having any other choices. The second group is gradually awakening to realize that their suffering over changes in life is a result of choosing blindly.

Topics covered:  Within us already lives a nature that does not have to resolve problems because it is problem-free to begin with; True teachings are intended to awaken a new kind of effort in us, and to expose the wrong kind of effort; Doing is downstream from being, and sorrow is the inevitable result of living from a nature that is out of order, and not in harmony with the broader life.