Topics Covered: Waiting for the other shoe to drop; Catch a glimpse of the message; Wisdom never dies; Protecting yourself from your own mortality is a fool's errand; Opposites come out of a unity; Recognize that the reaction is the answer to the challenge of the moment; Struggle consciously to wait where the message can reach you; Don't try to free yourself, that is what reactions do...

Topics Covered: Suppose when we become Truthful, less people agree with us and desert us, particularly family. What will I do in this case?; Freedom from the resistance and anger that comes up to "handle" my spouse's non-stop patronizing in her attempt to fix everything about me; "Who" is it who feels hurt?; What happens immediately after we die?...

Topics Covered: How do I handle my judgmental feelings about my son; Can I still grow while in a toxic relationship or should I leave; How can one heal and free themselves after a sexual assault; Nothing in me loves the truth anymore; When I’m tired and I listen to a talk I’m suddenly reenergized; How does the universe know what's best for you; I’m resentful and angry...

Topics Covered: Find the Place in This World That's Made Just for You; I feel like a complete failure and wonder if my life serves any purpose; I'm struggling to understand why my life feels so un-lived; What can I do to lessen the pain from a traumatic childhood; How do I deal with the loss of all close family, friends, and community; I feel like I am on a hamster wheel and cannot get off...

Topics Covered: Sensations and mechanical associations; Torment of inner dialog; Emotional pain and depression; Awareness vs. positive affirmations; Observer is the observed; Role as a bridge; Controlling nature; Resistance and fear; Concept of relaxation; Trying and failing; Worry about what other people think about you; Putting the work into practice; True forgiveness.

Topics Covered: Is it true that God never gives you more than you can handle; When your understanding changes, your perception changes; To be asleep means to be outside of Presence; You are meant to discover qualities of yourself through the ceaseless movement of life; How do I empty myself of a self-centered nature; The mind occupies itself with trying to fix the feeling of being incomplete...

Topics Covered: Leave the teaching moment alone; Feeling an instantaneous sense of "No!"; Understanding the spirit of inquiry; Recognizing the pattern of: reaction -> description -> action; The circumstances are the stage for the lesson presented; The instruction exists in the very moment of disturbance; "Who you are" and "what to do" are actually one thing in the moment

Topics Covered: Relationship between mother and child; What did you have to do with your own birth?; We meet people from a limited understanding of ourselves; Whatever is buried in you is food for your development; Judgement is based on resistance to an instantaneous reaction of a pain we don't know what to do with; Deep and hidden pain carried over from childhood

Topics Covered: What is the difference between little "I's" and the whole of the divine; I've battled with anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder since my late teens and don't know how to practice the higher ideas I learn; How do I help a young student in my classroom who is rude and hateful; Is conscience a conduit of truth.

Topics covered: If you were present in your life, you would never have questions about it; Is there any value in revisiting failed past relationships; Relationship Magic also applies to your relationship with thoughts and feelings about the past; The past doesn't repeat itself, it's you that repeats; When thought examines thought, nothing changes; Are fantasies okay; Feeling stuck caring for s...

Topics covered: The Law of Order; We're conditioned to believe we can control the outcome of any moment; Control of life is an absolute illusion; Thinking is a form of complaint; Changing the manifestation of a consciousness that's out of order; What does it mean to say "I exist"; The relationship of "I am" is unity; Freedom is unimaginable; Everything is a reflection; Silence permits seeing;...

Topics covered: Discussion of the topic for Talks in the Pines "Quieting the Mind, Freeing the Heart"; What does it mean to be a useful human being; You must be quiet so you can hear life tell you your true purpose; Anytime you're not present to yourself you are serving a lower will; All individual purposes serve a greater purpose; Why does it seem like we have to come up with our own purpose;...