Divided Mind

Topics covered: The intimate enemy is a consciousness that is asleep to itself but does not know it; As long as we have good reasons for why we suffer, we are never going to transcend painful patterns; Something in us believes that there are good reasons to suffer over things that we have no control over; Sufi story: "I lost my donkey, but at least I was not riding it at the time." We are not meant to be saddled by negative thoughts and feelings...

Classroom Talk: 05/31/2026 - Participating in the revelation of creation is the entrance into the realization of God’s life, paid for by the sacrifice of the lower self.

Classroom Talk: 03/29/2026 - By itself, no thought has the power to trouble us; its authority over us is equal to the extent we are deceived into identifying with its particular, temporary character.

Remastered Classic Talk: 07/10/2016 - Rushing somewhere, through anything, in the hope of finding some imagined peace of mind is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!

Classroom Talk: 06/08/2025 - The great universal misperception that secretly drives human conflict ­– with all of its sorrow and pain – is that the meaning of life is to be found somewhere outside of our own heart and mind.

Topics covered:  Resistance to the moment does not prove that you know what the moment is about; You believe that you can get away from yourself. But the object that the mind is trying to get to does not exist without the subject that makes it; Perfect love casts out fear because it takes you out of the equation. Love comes when the self ends. Knowing is antithetical to love.

Classroom Talk: 10/13/2024 - The first place to look any time you feel a sudden stab of pain is to see that not only is the sting of this moment a creation of your own hand, but also to see how - in that very same moment - you're being handed the reasons why you have no choice but to struggle with, and suffer over what amounts to a self-inflicted wound.

Classroom Talk: 4/7/2024 - Part 1: We can't be anxiously looking for real Life, and take part in its rebirth at the same time. Part 2: United we see; divided we fall.

Classroom Talk: 2/25/2024 - Just as the eyes that see the sun cannot understand its light by which they behold the shape and beauty of all things, neither can the heart understand the love that calls it to know and encompass all things. Eye and heart are creatures in time, but Light and Love are not. Even so, all meet; and to be a silent witness to their inexpressible union... is to realize the pathless journey to the indwelling Divine.