Classroom Talk: 3/13/2022 - Part 1: By wanting are all things not wanted... thus created; much as joy and sorrow, bound as one... are related. Part 2: If you build it, they will come; if you leave it empty... it will be filled.

Topics covered: levels, levels of consciousness, divided mind, satisfaction, dissatisfaction, ambition, ambitious, emptiness, disappointment, karma, peace, quiet mind...

Student Talks: 3/18/2022 - Key Lesson: Part 1: By wanting are all things not wanted... thus created; much as joy and sorrow, bound as one... are related. Part 2: If you build it, they will come; if you leave it empty... it will be filled.

Student Talks: 4/15/2022 - Key Lesson: The Unknowable Source of Peace in real life far exceeds our reach... because it can't be grasped, let alone taken by hand; it can only be received by a heart that has willingly emptied itself of hope in all things seen.

Any time you do the work, inwardly, to remember - and then look for - the "higher side" of life, you ensure that "low moments" not only lose their power over you, but that who you are in these moments will be increasingly immune to the world of "thrills and chills!"...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of May 23, 2016. Truth, like sunlight, radiates out, ceaselessly pouring down from the Great Unknown into an experience of temporarily 'knowing.' But, don't miss the point: without emptiness, nothing flows. Don't let the fear of empty spaces deceive you into trying to fill yourself; for if you do... you will never realize, let alone enter into the curren...

Classroom Talk: 4/10/2022 - Part 1: The Unknowable Source of Peace in real life far exceeds our reach... because it can't be grasped, let alone taken by hand; it can only be received by a heart that has willingly emptied itself of hope in all things seen. Part 2: To see that our happiness is as the sand in an hourglass that never stops turning itself over sets the stage for realizing...

Linger in the great mystery of moments untold. Wait there for the unspeakable invitation to live there.

Cycling of vanity with life-in-vain goes on until you see the cost of a self-filling self. Then you commence on the good work of giving yourself up.

Part I: There is no human being on earth with the power to grant us what our heart of hearts longs for: the end of that empty feeling that as we are, we are simply not enough. And the struggle to resolve this unwanted feeling -- by selling our souls to win the approval of others -- is to run off a cliff while chasing the end of a rainbow! Part II: You can never win enough approval from this w...

Part I: Only the mind quieted realizes its tendency to ensnare itself by considering its own imagined contents. Part II: When we look at life aright -- without taking thought for what we see, and keeping ourselves apart from a creeping knowledge that separates us from what is seen -- then there comes to us a new kind of freedom; we find ourselves no longer apart from life, but living within t...

Remastered Classic Talk: 11/11/15 - Just as a river is renewed -- each moment -- by the creeks and brooks that flow into it, so is our soul intended to be renewed by streams of Light, and all that they serve to reveal; of course... this assumes one thing: that we are empty enough -- each moment -- to receive this ceaseless flow of celestial impressions as they pour themselves into us.