Classroom Talk: 2/2/2022 - Any part of us that wants to give us a good reason why we are stuck somewhere in life is secretly a partner in that pain it first protests, and then seems to resist. To see the truth of this insight sets the stage for how to never feel stuck again.

Classroom Talk: 1/9/2022 - Poorest of us all... are those who "hear & obey" only their own reactions, because as long as that in-the-dark level of self remains in "power" -- calling the shots -- we will never see how our struggle to escape unwanted moments serves but one useless end: to escape a prison of our own making.

Classroom Talk: 1/5/2022 - Painful thoughts, feelings of regret, the fear of some dark tomorrow: all point to a "distant fire" as the source of our suffering, even as they blow smoke in our eyes to ensure we don't see that they are what's burning us in any troubling moment.

Spiritually speaking -- as a required agreement essential in facilitating one’s rebirth -- one must learn how to be at peace with (consciously) suffering the presence of a false sense of self that can never know the peace it seeks.

How can we ever hope to be at peace with life when -- for the most part -- all we know to live for is the endless struggle to carve out a piece of it for ourselves?

Classroom Talk: 11/16/2022 - Here is the self-evident, but seldom -- if ever -- admitted reason why we must do the difficult inner work needed for real self-transformation: if we don't rise above our present level of consciousness, we gradually come to incarnate the very weakness we claim to despise within us. To see the truth of this provides us with a reason, the will and the courage...

Classroom Talk: 11/6/2022 - Real Life is a miracle unfolding in slow motion. The eyes that can see this truth are those no longer blinded by the nature of thought whose sleight-of-hand creates and sustains the illusion of passing time; to see things as they are is to be what we are: travelers through a time and realm whose peace passes all understanding.

Topics covered: There are experiences that are very clearly an indication of another order of consciousness; We all live in an invisible field where an immediate exchange of a certain kind of energy takes place between the observer and the observed; All reactions are registered in a field of awareness; The mind is active when it's busy trying to figuring out the choices it has to resolve a disturbance...

The only thing (in life) that goes from zero to a million miles per hour -- in a single painful movement -- are negative reactions...

Fear of the future is a negative memory: (it is) the ghost of some past painful experience disguised as "what may be."

There is no map to the Kingdom of Heaven that isn't out of date the moment we set out to follow it...

Classroom Talk: 10/19/2022 - Until we realize some level of separation from our unconscious reactions to life, our sense of self remains little more than a legion of momentarily re-animated identities... with each one appearing -- and then disappearing -- as helpless to remain in place as is a shadow created by the sunrise to hold its ground when the sun sets.