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Topics covered: There isn't one moment in this life that doesn't come bearing gifts; It is possible to have an entirely new relationship with every negative reaction; Fear is the passive response to unconsciously resisting the object of our own negative imagination; Transcending our consciousness begins with a new awareness of our consciousness.

Topic: Step Off the Ferris Wheel of Endless Desires and Set Yourself Free (Classroom Talk 3/29/23)

Topics covered: Being present is the same as the capacity to do the right thing at the right time, without needing thought; "The truth about the action must be known and the truth of inaction also must be known; even so the truth about prohibited action must be known. For mysterious are the ways of action. He who sees inaction in action and action in inaction, is wise among men." -- Bhagavad Gita

Topics covered: How is it possible for a person to change from Dr. Jekyl into Mr. Hyde at the blink of an 'I'; The mind believes that if it can just get through the present condition, get it over with, then it won't be negative anymore; Humanity's consciousness hides behind the explanations and justifications that it creates in order to accomplish its agenda...

Topic: The One True Answer to Every Soul-Troubling Question (Classroom Talk 3/22/23)

Topics covered: There cannot be a bridge without awareness of the opposing shore and the need to reach that shore. A bridge connects possibilities; True spiritual lessons come along when you don't really want them. Revelations of the unwanted kind; The resistance of revelation is reincarnation. Revelation of what has been concealed allows a healing to take place; Hell is the endless attempt to rescue yourself.

Topics covered: It requires faith to change what we give our attention to; Faith in its earliest form is awareness of another order of being and therefore another order of time; That which you seek already exists within you, and can only be realized through your attention, so that you might enter into relationship with higher principles; Everything that seems to obscure the way is part of the way...

Topics covered: Dreams of freedom are the very captivity that you are struggling to free yourself from; As your consciousness changes, so does the world that it creates; What is seen does not owe its existence to what is visible. Faith is understanding that what we see is rooted in what is unseen; The real struggle is to stop giving your attention away, because lack of attention produces the painful sense...

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...

Topic: How to Cultivate a Quiet Mind (Classroom Talk 3/15/23)

Topics covered: What good is it to live in a world where the idea of "God" is merely a convenience that suits people only when they need the idea for some kind of self gain?; An unconscious interior dialog includes being told the reason why we are in conflict, along with the things we should do to end the conflict; Identification with a reaction is the same as passively consenting to the consciousness that...

Topics covered: The mind names the moment, resists the very moment that it has named, and then tries to save itself from what it is resisting; The mind endlessly talks to itself about what it must do to restore the peace that it believes it possessed before it was disturbed by life; According to the comparative mind, being complete demands that others see us that way.