Choice

Doing the right thing, in the right way, begins with seeing the right order of things. All of life's lessons point us toward this simple, celestial truth. Through the pain of missteps and mistakes, we are gradually awakened to discover what has always been right before our eyes: whenever things are out of order within us, our choices and actions must follow -- and sorrow is the inevitable result.

Remastered Classic Talk: 07/06/16 - Calling on, and then allowing a spirit of unrest to help guide you to the peace that your heart of hearts seeks...Is like hoping that a stiff winter wind has come, just in time, to help you gather all the leaves that lay scattered across your lawn.

Classroom Talk: 11/16/2022 - Here is the self-evident, but seldom -- if ever -- admitted reason why we must do the difficult inner work needed for real self-transformation: if we don't rise above our present level of consciousness, we gradually come to incarnate the very weakness we claim to despise within us. To see the truth of this provides us with a reason, the will and the courage...

Classroom Talk: 1/6/2021 - The looming shadow of any negative spirit cannot follow us, let alone punish us in any moment we remember that ours is the divine right to bring it into the light of higher self-awareness... for therein no darkness can dwell.

Classroom Talk: 04/05/2026 - Every movement we make is determined before we are conscious of it; yet, absorbed in the minutia of life, we do not see this. And what is true of our actions is true of our thoughts and emotions as well: we are the manifestation of a Divine, still, and silent Light in timeless motion.

Classroom Talk: 02/08/2026 - Looking to any reaction to resolve, or otherwise reconcile a negative reaction is like chasing a shadow to find the light.

Classroom Talk: 02/01/2026 - Giving yourself empty things to do can't fill the emptiness you feel inside, so…risk leaving that space empty; allow it to be filled with something you can't give yourself: freedom from the fear of feeling empty.

Classroom Talk: 12/21/2025 - Awakening is the sudden, and often quite shocking realization that what we had taken to be the whole of our life…isn’t, any more than you can see the whole of a starry night through a skylight.