Whenever there is an unconscious inner dialog going on in our heads, we are actually looking in a mirror that we don't know is a mirror. And what we see in our mind's eye talks to us about what we must make ourselves into so that we might finally find rest and be at peace. Freedom from the dark inner dialog begins by seeing that the "self" that is talking to us only exists as long as we...

Classroom Talk: 9/25/2002 - Don't try to be free -- for this sets you against any movement of life that doesn't line up with your ideas about the nature of freedom. Better than trying to be free, learn instead to freely explore all of your moments. For instance, be free to wonder about your worries instead of feverishly working to resolve them according to your present ideas about a worry-free life...

Topics covered: There is no freedom to be found in possessions, in the known, the familiar, the comfortable; It is wise to seek immortality because time defeats all other ambitions; You cannot resist then moment and learn from it at the same time. And if you can't learn from the moment, then you cannot grow inwardly; Nothing happens to you. Everything happens for you so that you can learn from the revelation...

 

Topics covered: The part of me that can attend to God is a bit of God's attention; This work mandates that gradually you begin to understand what freedom is not; The mind that compares itself to anything is in hell; The only power the devil has is to get you to believe in its threats; The futility of having your identity derived through something outside of you; True humanity has conscience in...

Topics covered in this Vlog: In order to understand any situation you have to agree with it; Disagreement is the same as separation; Resistance is a lesson killer; As long as we disagree with life, we are fighting with the lesson that has come and which is essential for our freedom; Choose to agree with the moment in spite of what it seems to be taking from you; Every moment that comes along i...

You will never agree to spend another moment attending to worried thoughts and feelings once you realize that they don’t care about you at all!

Student Talks: 3/14/2025 - We can't change others – or, for that matter, the purpose of any given moment as it unfolds – but we can work to place one less demand on both. Only in this action can we hope to find the freedom for which we seek, because the only thing that imprisons us – in the end – is our resistance to whatever runs against our deeply seated demands.

Topics covered: Intellectual knowledge is not the same as understanding. Do not mistake thinking for being; A sudden sense of disturbance comes with the want of relief from that same disturbance; What we really want relief from are the unseen part of our consciousness that by its very nature has attracted the conditions that it then seeks freedom from; What is true refuses to live with conflict or act from weakness.

Topics covered: Dreams of freedom are the very captivity that you are struggling to free yourself from; As your consciousness changes, so does the world that it creates; What is seen does not owe its existence to what is visible. Faith is understanding that what we see is rooted in what is unseen; The real struggle is to stop giving your attention away, because lack of attention produces the painful sense...

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...

Topics covered: Learning to see oneself is a journey; Having a desire interferes with observation; The desire to be free establishes limitation; What you want instead is to become interested in what isn't freedom; The more clear something is the more efficient it is; Self-observation liberates you from the illusion that you can do; A good seed in a human is one within whom personality is well-...

Topics covered: How do I make an intention without having expectations about the results; Your work is about finding a freedom you can't give yourself; Disturbance is part of your existence; You don't change a problem, you outgrow the nature that views it as a problem; You have to walk through the door without knowledge; Seeing the limitations of your mind; Real gratitude is never about anythi...