Meditation Talk: 8/30/2019 - Mind is not intellect itself, nor is (our) Heart the seat of emotion alone; real mind is the marriage of a higher order of intellect and heart: wherein feeling is wisdom -- and wisdom is, in turn, feeling. These seemingly different parts (of us) were never intended to be separate... as they now are for the majority of humanity...

Classroom Talk: 11/7/2018 - We cannot -- of ourselves -- bring an end to the seemingly innate suffering inherent in the unfolding of our- story; such a story only comes to an end when -- by grace and effort -- we see that it has no real future, and never did because...it is as false as the unconscious level of self that dreams it into existence, moment to moment, time and time again.

Classroom Talk: 2/6/2019 - Part 1: Before we can have a conscious relationship with what is Timeless, before we can know a "peace that passes all understanding," there must come a series of (conscious) shocks that prove the truth of the following to us: any imagined time, power, or possession to come...

Classroom Talk: 11/13/2019 All unconscious reactions are useless except to serve the mechanical man who believes the involuntary sensations produced by his own familiar clanging and clanking... somehow prove he is alive, thriving, and most important of all... real.

Classroom Talk: 11/14/2018 - Here is why rushing from place to place -- from thought to thought -- is the same as going nowhere at all: in one's constant haste to reach the end of some self-spun story -- where he dreams he will, at last, claim the peace he imagines awaits him there -- he runs right by the truth he must see...that is, if he wishes to be set free: there is no story he can tell himself that doesn't develop,...

Learning to use the appearance of a conflict -- whether with a friend, family member, or for an unwanted moment -- as a reminder that what you're really experiencing in that moment is the presence of some unseen contradiction in your own consciousness -- is the beginning of the end of ever again being made to act against yourself, or anyone else.

Despite our resistance to it, no unwanted moment in passing time -- in and of itself -- is ever "wrong", or "out of place." Our incomplete understanding of the reason for its appearance not only tends to color such moments "dark," but our unconscious identification with this false conclusion then acts to drag us down into that same imagined darkness.

Classroom Talk: 12/5/2018 - No (psychological) self exists without memory; no (psychological) memory exists without thought; no thought exists by itself. And yet, nothing is more alone and isolated than is the thinker-... regardless of how many thoughts may emerge to support and sustain the appearance of its temporary identity.

Classroom Talk: 3/13/2019 - The only authority the past has over us comes with our unconscious consent to be its captive each time we identify with its "objects" of thought, and all of their old associated emotions. The more clearly we see the truth of this kind of captivity -- inherent in living from this level of consciousness...

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.

Classroom Talk: 7/17/2019 May as well try and explain to a door that its total possibility is nothing more than being open or closed - by a force not its own - as hope that a sleeping human being will be interested in seeing the futility of a life consigned to the swing of the opposites.