Topics covered: The only reason that people hurt others is because they are in pain themselves; Judging another person, even if only in your own mind, is a form of punishing that person; There can be no object without a subject. There can be no sound of a tree falling without someone who hears the sound. There can be no feeling of irritation without someone who feels the irritation.

Topics Covered: Conditioning is the extension of a consciousness trying to escape itself; Work to be conscious of a nature that never stops conditioning itself; The habitual tug of emptiness saying, "fill me"; Judging yourself is part of repetition; The moment we don't want is the level of consciousness that fears it; Crisis is a revelation factor; Identity and image are a singularity...

Student Talks: 11/22/2024 - Key Lesson: Real self-change begins with seeing that Real Life is change itself.

Topics covered:  Most of us have agreed to settle for a life that is "not as bad as that other person's life."; We presently set out on a search outside of ourselves to find a life without fear, not understanding that it is all an interior matter and that we do not have to go anywhere in order to find out for ourselves; In negative imagination we struggle to make real what is already real.

Topics covered: In the midst of unwanted moments, remember that real life is bigger than what you don't want; The mind is in a ceaseless rebellion against the perceived authority -- outside of itself -- that it believes is threatening to take away its freedom; You cannot separate a negative reaction from the consciousness that blames something outside of itself for the negativity; The last thing that occurs to us is that we may not know what we believe we do...

Topics covered: What is "the seeker" inside of us; Caring for a parent with dementia; Why is this journey filled with seemingly endless perils and pitfalls; The moment of relationship is the revelation of a character in my consciousness; The prodigal son and the dark night of the soul; What love begins, love will finish the way it wants to finish it; What is the common thread that runs through every aspirant's journey; It is not "I" who remembers God, it is God who remembers I.

Topics covered:  "We would not be interested in true interior Work unless somehow, on a daily basis, we lived with an unrequited Love. The capacity to know this Love is already seeded within us; The consciousness that we call "Christ" is the light that dwells within the darkness that the darkness cannot comprehend. The Christ is a living awareness."

Topics Covered: False certainty, uncertainty, and real certainty are the inevitable stages that an aspirant must go through on the spiritual path; False certainty leads to misguided actions; We want certainty because our consciousness is uncomfortable with anything that is unfamiliar that does not confirm its perceived status quo; False security can be taken from you at any time...

Topics covered: Shocks are mandatory in your inner spiritual work; There is an unconscious nature within us that only knows itself through what it is unconsciously identified with; The acronym in the doctor story was IROTNK stands for "Instant Reaction Of The Negative Kind"; There is no redemption in a time to come. In real life, redemption is always taking...

Topics covered: The solution to the disturbance is built right into the disturbance itself. The antidote is in the venom; The questions that appear in the face of a pain have been appearing to humanity throughout all time. These questions lead to plans that promise to get rid of the pain but only serve to intensify it; You think it is "you" asking these questions because they are so familiar...

Topics Covered: The wave is a momentary expression of something much greater; We would not be able to experience movement without the presence of stillness through which it moves; Movement and stillness are not apart from each other, they are a unity; Seeing is coming into a relationship with a being within which everything already awaits; Identification is blindness...

Topics Covered: We're anxious, worried and fearful because we live with an interior bully that we know nothing about; We have to prove to ourselves what our intuition already tell us, which is that we are not here on earth to hoard as many possessions as possible so that we can live free from disturbances forever; The acronym MOIB stands for "My Own Inner Bully"...