Topics covered: Without clarity there can be no self-command; The real "evil" is the thought that I have to complete myself, because it separates you from discovering you are being given everything you need, moment to moment, to be a complete being; I don't have any trouble without a desire. All troubles and painful situations are born from hidden desires; What is behind every last troubling moment? The experience of myself...

Topic: Enroll in the Finishing School Called Life and Set Yourself Free (Classroom Talk 1/24/24)

Topics covered: When we try to avoid the consequences of our choices, we believe that the best thing to do is to make more choices that lead to more unwanted consequences; Conflict in consciousness is always a war between what it wants and what it does not want, along with its identification with those desires; You can't have a fear that isn't born out of a desire that you have identified with...

Topics covered: Everything you need to know is shown to you each moment you are in, and it can’t be separated from the consciousness that is revealing it; We are on this planet because we have business to do in both this world and the higher world; Before it's possible for a human being to be themselves, they're going to have to discover what they actually are...

Topic: Step Out of the Anxious Rush and Into Your Real Life (Classroom Talk 1/17/24)

Topics covered: The last thing we want is to be in the lowest place, even though every true teaching talks about one's salvation being found not in pride nor in any of the possessions we have acquired; Your life has its own teachings. You alone can receive what you have been given to receive. Life is not a race to win, but a school for your higher education; Arrogance is the act of pushing everything away that does not correspond with the image we...

Topics covered: The mind that is blind is first and foremost blind to the fact that it doesn't see; Your whole life is meant to be spent aware of being endlessly given something new to see, to see everything that is passing through you; What if the whole of your life is about what you have yet to see about yourself? You must sincerely wish to see what you are being given to see...

Topic: Welcome this New Light that Takes Fear and Anxiety Out of Your Life (Classroom Talk 1/10/24)

Topics covered: It is wise to seek immortality because time defeats all other ambitions; The greatest prize hidden within our inner life is victory over death. Uncovering the treasure is a matter not of intellectual knowledge only, but of awareness, relationship, participation and understanding; The desert in spiritual stories represents the endless useless struggle to escape from conflict, not seeing that the attempt to escape is the perpetuation of the conflict.

Topics covered: In order to genuinely change our life, we need a change of light. And the light that reveals our consciousness hurts the eyes at first; The land of "one and done" that we are all trying to reach exists only in imagination. There is no such place. It is a mythological land. This is what mechanical religion and false teachers try to sell to you; If you don’t see for yourself the truth of something, you do not know the truth...

Topic: Enter the Unseen Temple of the Indwelling Divine (Classroom Talk 1/3/24)

Topics covered: What usually follows a moment of regret is not a change of consciousness, but instead a new set of justifications to explain why we did what we did; We are easily "triggered" because we are loaded with pain, the weight of the past, and we don't know what do to with it; It is impossible to let go with one hand, and hold on with the other. That is not real letting go...