The goal of all truthful teachings handed down through the ages has been to encourage individuals to follow the path to a more expansive existence.

Part I: Self Realization is the restoration of our essential relationship with the Life Divine. Part II: True contentment finally dawns within us once we see that the only thing troubling us is a set of mistaken ideas about ourselves that we have come to call our own.

Classroom Talk: 12/18/2019 The painful pretense of human arrogance exists only as it does because of how distanced we've become from the immense, DIVINE mystery of our true Self. The more we AWAKEN to the depth of this mystery, the more we realize the effortless peace of a supernal humility.

Featured Study Group topic for the Week of February 10, 2014. The problems and pains that plague a divided mind don't even appear in the mind unified with itself.

Only a mind awakened to itself knows the cost of being spiritually asleep. While the mind slumbering in itself knows nothing -- not even the cost it pays for remaining asleep.

The loss of our inalienable right to be free – physically, psychologically, and spiritually – begins with forgetting that no one and nothing outside of our own true nature knows what is best for us.

Topics covered: Resistance arises from fear of an identity being threatened; We are born into a world of comparison which causes illusions and identifications; Each event we identify with strengthens the illusion of identification; We are meant to enter into a relationship with another order of consciousness; Fear arises when we challenge a belief; There is no psychological fear without negati...

Meditation Talk: 6/28/2019 We cannot learn the truth of ourselves -- let alone hope to be set free by it -- as long as even one part of us refuses that revelation -- regardless of how impossible it may feel to stand there... in its Light.

Spiritually speaking, all relationships serve one purpose: self-knowledge. And self-knowledge, in turn, serves a single purpose: discovering the truth of oneself...

The unconscious, spiritually asleep mind is a machine of “1,000 dances” whose repetitious steps are incapable of creating, let alone moving an inch in a truly new direction.

Topics covered: It takes a long time to start doubting your habitual, useless suffering; The work gives you a way to look at what you've been blind to; Nothing is worse for you than to be negative; Collapsing into an identity vs. collapsing into awareness; You don't recognize your suffering when you start to suffer; The teachings must come from this time; Be more aware of what is happening ins...

I do not have to be better than you have made me, For you have created me in your image And there is perfection in this promise. But I do have to bear what you would make of me, If I wish to know my maker. Perhaps the greatest, yet least understood spiritual secret in the World is that being what I am is what it takes to make me better; Because only within what I am Is what **...