Being

We're not meant to see life through our thinking. We don't need to think about what is. In fact, why do I need to tell myself what just happened? Wasn't I there? Are you jumpy? The minute that a shadow approaches, we can't see what it is, but we think something is coming based in fear, and we dive for cover! What would it be like to never have to wonder or worry about whether or not...

Before you can have a different life: before you can be happier, wiser, more at peace, and in quiet command of yourself, you must first *be* different. Being is everything.

The great circle of life is imbued with a unique kind of "gravity" where all that lives is drawn to join itself to a larger body of life.

Most people would rather complain about some painful life pattern than dare to meet the level of their own consciousness responsible for its repeated appearance.

The untold great spiritual secret concerning self-transformation is that we grow in proportion to our awareness of what we can no longer be.

The goal of all truthful teachings handed down through the ages has been to encourage individuals to follow the path to a more expansive existence.

The unconscious mind forever distorts everything it sees in order to justify its concealed intentions.

Remastered Classic Talk: 11/30/16 - The compulsive "need" to be constantly on the move -- ceaselessly occupied, either outwardly -- or inwardly, in some useless consideration -- is how the lower nature fills itself with the nothingness it needs to keep itself from seeing its own emptiness.

Classroom Talk: 10/12/2022 - We are not lifted by spontaneous reactions; rather, we are chained to these momentary feelings by our identification with them. As long as our sense of self is a derivative of any temporary passion -- "high or low" -- our identity is nothing more than a by-product of the same... much in the same way as an ember owes its existence to the flame that gives it birth...

Classroom Talk: 6/16/2021 - One sign of true spiritual success is when, at long last, we realize not only are we (always) standing in the right place for us to to be in that moment but -- even more telling is this: regardless how that moment unfolds... there is no one else on earth we would rather be!

Classroom Talk: 2/3/2021 - Refuse to weigh yourself by the values of this world, including what IT calls out as good, necessary, or true for you! Rather, weigh-in against the whole notion that your True Self can be measured by anyone, including yourself.

Classroom Talk: 1/20/2021 - In this world, there are three paths by which one carves out his or her destiny: cunning, industry, or love of truth. The "crafty" ones inevitably trap themselves. And while industry is good... it is, at best, conditional; all things created are subject to the passage -- and ravages -- of time. Love of truth, on the other hand...