Student Talks: 11/01/2024 - Key Lesson: Realize the Divine Order of Life at Work in You and Watch Fear and Worry Disappear

Key Lesson: What is past is colorless; neither does it have texture, any taste or odor. To lend any one of these qualities to what is no more is to transform what may be useful now into a prison of painfully pre-determined outcomes.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of February 26, 2018. Any old and particularly familiar pain that repeats itself does so for a single reason: we believe that we understand the reason for its appearance, when nothing could be further from the truth... as evidenced by the reappearance of that suffering.

Student Talks: 9/20/2024 - Key Lesson: Hanging onto a handful of anxious, worried thoughts to protect you from what they point to as a fearful moment to come, is like wrapping your arms around the anchor of a sinking ship because there's nothing left on deck for you to cling to as it goes down!

Classroom Talk: 7/2/2023 - Part 1: Here is why it's impossible to run after, let alone come to possess real peace of mind: the same moment we set out to do so... we disturb it. Part 2: Here is the unseen cause of the great circle of human conflict and suffering: we unconsciously resist the appearance, realization, and hence the reconciliation of (our) collective and individual karma, accordingly.

Student Talks: 4/8/2022 - Key Lesson: Practicing the Presence -- working to remember the truth of yourself -- doesn't necessarily change the kind of events that come to you; that's not how it works. But, what your inner work does change is for whom -- upon what 'I' -- will these events fall and, accordingly, the purpose they serve.

Student Talks: 12/3/2021 - Key Lesson: The inner journey that leads to a life no longer bound by painful unwanted moments -- including their ever-present fears and doubts -- has one prerequisite: along the WAY we must agree to walk through any gate above which reads this sign: Enter here to meet whatever limits your right to be free.

Classroom Talk: 6/24/2023 - The anxiety inherent in ANY dream of "when and then" can only end in the here and NOW.

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.

Whenever we will put ourselves on the side of what we know is true, then Truth takes our side, lending us what is noble, needful, and divine.

Increasingly, I hear strange ideas like I should learn how to embrace my own pain, or walk into my own "shadow-self."