This Week's Topic

Classroom Talk: 2/16/2020 - Rather than look outside of ourselves for familiar ways to escape old heartaches, let us turn our attention around... and choose, instead, to become aware of a (lower) level of consciousness that secretly enables the continuation of (our) suffering. In this new action, and the Light of revelation it creates...

Classroom Talk: 2/9/2020 - Part 1: Seek first the Truth of yourself: there cannot be two firsts in our life, otherwise the first of today...becomes the last of tomorrow and, ultimately, what is lost is our opportunity to enter into a conscious relationship with what is timelessly wise, and perfectly loving. Part 2: Growing pains are inescapable for all those...

Classroom Talk: 2/2/2020 - Part 1: We can either complain about our life, or work to change it. Each moment unfolds in the company of two invisible "buttons:" One is marked, "going down." The other reads, "Up!" Our destiny depends upon which of these two buttons we select. Choose wisely! Part 2: The only thing gained by how easy...

Classroom Talk: 1/26/2020 - Never run from what feels like any empty moment. If you will wait in it, watch it unfold, you'll soon see it reveal its secret fullness... much in the same way as the dark of a new moon becomes, in time, a moon full of light as it catches and reflects the light of the sun.

Classroom Talk: 1/19/2020 - Part 1: The heart beats... and the effect of its pulsation is the propagation of oxygen-rich blood pumped into and through the body, giving it life. The awakening soul sees... and the effect of this perception invokes a higher awareness whose Light permeates the darkness of all that is unconscious...

Classroom Talk: 1/12/2020 - The pain of any dark moment that makes life feel pointless is, at best a lie. Ours is always the right to exchange any form of discouragement for the realization that nothing about it -- neither its doubt, nor its attending sense of despair -- is native to our True Self.

Classroom Talk: 1/5/2020 - Part 1: No seed -- whether a kernel of corn, or a special talent -- can prove itself more valuable than the sweat it takes to sow it -- cultivate & nourish it -- until it offers up its latent Good. In much the same way, the soul is a seed; relationships are its ground; and what grows when all is properly cared for... is Love...

Classroom Talk: 12/29/2019 - Every signpost that seems to point the way to the Holiness we seek must be seen for being the illusion that it is...For there exists no direction in passing time, let alone a doorway seen as outside of us that opens into the Living Now.

Classroom Talk: 12/22/2019 - Far better to see ourselves lacking the strength we need to be kind -- and to consciously suffer the humiliation of seeing we are without (that) character -- than it is to act out the unkindness of an unconscious nature that always finds fault with others in order to hide its inherent weakness.

Classroom Talk: 12/11/2019 - It's said: Truth sets us free. So, welcome this Truth... and watch how it keeps its promise: The only thing we really fear (in life) is our own weakness... and this is only because we haven't yet realized another Truth: Whatever the weakness we may fear is NOT ours.

Classroom Talk: 12/8/2019 - Part 1: Each time some desire-created 'I' dreams of a better tomorrow to come, it "sees" that future in the THOUGHTS it weaves to dress it up. But thought -- by nature -- is of the PAST, which means that ALL of our newly imagined tomorrows... are secretly a set of secondhand clothes. Part 2: What is any...

Classroom Talk: 12/1/2019 - It’s never Life’s lessons (themselves) that are painful: here’s the real reason why we continue to experience the fear, anger, or anxiety that always seems to attend the appearance of unwanted moments: an unconscious part of us keeps resisting the (spiritual) lessons that are inseparable from the...