How would you like to live from a nature where no matter what happens, no matter what comes at you, as soon as whatever it is lands on you, it's changed into something good? "Oh gosh, wow! You mean I could live from a part of myself where it wouldn't matter what it was that came to it -- no matter how dark, fearsome, hateful, worried, angry, no matter what it was -- as soon as it touched me...

Depending on how the day breaks for us, we often find ourselves feeling discontent about our life, experiencing any or all of the following conditions whenever we: Find ourselves unable to change or control someone near to us. Take a close look at our physical appearance and find we are somehow lacking. Run headlong into self-compromising behaviors beyond our seeming strength or ability to change...

The hidden nature of almost all that we do on a collective basis is the direct, but unseen, effect of this one great unconscious desire: to search out what we believe will complete us, drawing us to seek "greener pastures" by the deft touch of its magnetic hand, but never allowing us to rest...

It is no stretch of the imagination to say that many days most of us wrestle with some form of discontentment in life. Add to this disgruntled condition an equal amount of time spent searching for solutions to "cure" this confliction, and we come to realize a great deal of our time on earth is spent trying to dodge feelings of being discontented!

Student Talks: 8/19/2022 - Key Lesson: The imagined time of "rest" we seek is, in fact, the same as an invisible burr beneath our saddle, as whatever form of comfort it is that still eludes us doesn't exist without some corresponding sense of discomfort that keeps spurring us on.