Topics covered: The Light is already a part of who you are; Negative states are undeveloped states of consciousness; We are a reflection of what is eternal, divine and immortal; Relationships reveal the purpose of existence; The authentic spiritual life includes conscious suffering; Resisting unwanted moments cements the condition we don't want; Who you mistook yourself to be was never you; Re...

Classroom Talk: 5/12/2019 - The misunderstanding of our relationship with life, awash with the unseen and useless suffering it creates, is the "mind and heart" of the false self, whereas the realization of our relationship to life, including our willingness to fulfill the obligation it calls for... is True Self.

The true test of our actual level of understanding is how we respond to those moments in life when we don't understand why life unfolds as it does.

Familiarity looks upon the absence of the known as an "emptiness" to be avoided at all costs.

Topics Covered: There are almost an infinite number of ways that people excuse their way through life. Everyone walks around with a false friend named MOE, which stands for "Master Of Excuses"; We are not supposed to prove our perfection. Instead we are meant to be perfected through using the moment and its relationships for revelation and self-knowledge; All things in nature...

Topics covered: Awareness and my capacity to attend to my actual state is what allows that state to change; This present level of consciousness apprehends the world and its relationships through an unconscious process of separation; Life is not happening to you. It is happening for you; Our present consciousness tells us the source of our suffering, our reaction, is something that exists outside of us.

Classroom Talk: 7/3/2022 - Part 1: Unattended thoughts attract unwanted relationships. Part 2: Identifying with any painful reaction is a form of negative fascination; it is an inverse form of Narcissism where we feel drawn to "stare" at -- to dwell on -- whatever may be that dark thought or feeling we're so sure we don't want to see. Stranger still, the more we resist the...

Topics covered: Working with the double attention exercises; How do you come to understand and live from the immortal self; Tools for introducing others to spirituality; Walking away from abusive family relationships; Comments on the Easter talk regarding light and dark; How can I live a simpler life; Understanding what it means to 'fall into a pit'; How can I help my young grandchildren while...

Topics covered: Why don't we question fear; The world is polarized because we are polarized; Fear stems from a nature that depends on certain conditions to keep it in place; We are meant to exceed our limitations and grow; Negative assumptions do not protect us; Relationships reveal our inner patterns; We can never learn by resisting what is being shown to us about ourselves.

Topics covered: Discussion of Guy's book, The Courage to Be Free; The integration of the heart and mind; The laws that govern growth; Desire only knows endless desire; Dying to the old self; Becoming the observer takes courage; All relationships are meant to reveal; Awareness unifies; The source of riches live within you; Serving something greater; Seeing the good when things look bad; Who I a...

"Each of us, as human beings, is created for a specific purpose. And it's impossible for any of us to understand what that purpose is as long as our present condition prohibits it. Our present condition is that we are prisoners of a sort. We remain captives (without knowing it) within the confines of a certain order of our own mind, our own consciousness, in which we were never intended to live..."

Student Talks: 12/23/2022 - Key Lesson: Part 1: We cannot hope to find true peace without fulfilling the purpose of (our) life, and we can't fulfill that purpose without awakening to the Web of Divine Relationships within which the purpose of (our) being has already been sown. So that anything working to interfere with this realization is, at best, delaying its revelation...