Exercise: The awakening person realizes that any psychological pain they feel is the touch of something greater that is inviting a rebirth. See how many times you can catch an old self that wants to continue itself and 'make the exchange' by allowing what is unconscious in you to be made conscious.

We rarely even suspect the harm in our attachments until the rope that we're holding onto -- by which we imagine that we're pulling ourselves up and into a better place in life -- suddenly reveals itself to be a set of chains whose weight is dragging us down and under.

Being at peace, and learning to live with quiet confidence -- even as the world spins wildly around us -- begins as we realize within us the presence and power of an interior stillness that neither needs, nor searches for, anything outside of itself in order to quietly know itself.

No one can say "No" to this world who is afraid to walk through it alone. The unseen cost of this baseless fear is not just to keep the company of cowards, but to lose one's possibility of ever coming to know the company of the Divine.

When you don't -- when you consciously won't -- express some negative state, you are literally asking for awareness of a higher self. Here's why... As you don't express that state, you become conscious of yourself as the ground upon which it is breaking as well as the presence of that visiting state. In this moment of new awareness there is something there inside of you, with you...

Classroom Talk: 04/05/2026 - Every movement we make is determined before we are conscious of it; yet, absorbed in the minutia of life, we do not see this. And what is true of our actions is true of our thoughts and emotions as well: we are the manifestation of a Divine, still, and silent Light in timeless motion.

Remastered Classic Talk: 04/20/16 - All of our imagined hopes and plans for the promising pleasures of "tomorrow" are crafted by the parts of us determined to keep us from seeing what we're being given to see about ourselves in each and every present moment.

 

 

Classroom Talk: 04/20/2025 - The life and death of the Christ did not happen two-thousand years ago, any more than the rising and setting of the sun belongs to a particular place and time. Seen, or not, the life of Christ is always now…as is His sacrifice for the sake of the continuing perfection of the human Soul.

Student Talks: 04/11/2025 - There is no condition in our life -- immediately present, or apparently lingering -- that isn't perfectly suited to help us change the way we see, understand, and ultimately transcend...not just every experience we may have in life, but the level of consciousness responsible for its appearance.

Topics covered:  There is no condition in your life that isn't perfectly suited to change you for the better; The way we are now, our reactions are always there before we are; Inherent in every reaction is "What does this mean?" and "Hurry up and make a choice."

Student Talks: 5/8/2019 - Key Lesson: When it comes to being free, there is no such thing as the "next best thing." Therefore, it is the far wiser soul that agrees to "die" to her imagined freedom, than it is to live as a fool who realizes, too late, that he traded his soul for a servitude made comfortable by compromise.

Any action we may take that's created by resistance within us to something unwanted in our life ensures only the continuation of a nature so asleep to itself that it can't see the difference between always trying to escape a prison, and not entering into one in the first place.