Divided Mind

1. Real Success is not measured by what you are driven to achieve, but by what you can quietly understand. 2. Letting Go is the natural release which always follows the realization that holding on hurts. 3. Why seek answers to tormenting questions when it is possible to realize there is no intelligence in torment? So simply drop those painful questions. 4. See the upset not as an exterior c...

If you know the content of your own heart ... If you can be consciously aware of this condition ... Then you not only know the secret contents Of the heart of everyone else you meet, But you also know that there is no difference Between you and all of these "others" In the realization of this undivided life You are given the Grace of knowing That God is one ... And that each one...

Seeking fulfillment it empties itself. Seeking importance it compromises itself. This is the self that opposes itself.

Remastered Classic Talk: 3/22/17 -

Part 1: Your possibilities in life for spiritual growth are as unlimited as is your willingness to consciously meet your limitations.

Part 2: Resisting the revelation of any one of your present limitations... is like resenting the ocean because you never learned how to swim!

Key Lesson: The whole idea of learning to live with "controlled stress" is like believing that not only are you in control of a war you didn't start, but that you're on the winning side.

The end of suffering is not found in the pursuit of freedom from suffering, but in realizing the divided nature of desire that imagines and identifies with a pain-free time or a place to come, only to imprison itself in a fear it may lose the heaven it has imagined.

The perfection of each moment is hidden within its necessity; after all, what is the true nature of any moment revealed in the stream of time other than the ceaseless reconciling of creation to the Divine will that never stops giving it birth. The divided mind, supported by an ever-shifting false sense of self, creates the moment in time that it doesn't want and then -- blind to its own creation -- imagines a time to come when it will be free...

Classroom Talk: 6/26/2024 - Anytime we feel a need to stand in the healing light of the Divine -- and act to honor that wish -- we are shown a truth that not only sets us on the path back Home, but that serves to guide us the whole way: we have never been outside of the light of God.

Classroom Talk: 1/31/2024 - The awareness of the whole of ourselves is the cancellation of time... for in this undivided state of consciousness no memory is needed to produce a sense of self; instead, we gaze upon ourselves as we are: already a complete Being.

Classroom Talk: 6/7/2023 - Here's the real reason why talking to ourselves about whatever is considered to be the cause of that "conversation" in our head is so exhausting: it's very hard work to make something (so big) out of what really amounts to nothing.

Classroom Talk: 2/1/2023 - All psychological suffering is born of unconscious resistance to life; it is the bitter fruit of the futile attempt to prove that our sense of self exists outside of the conditions that give rise to its revelation.

Classroom Talk: 8/24/2022 - We all want to be free of painful dramas in our life, yet refuse to see how we play a lead role in their daily appearance. Catching ourselves in a play of our own making -- hearing ourselves reiterate old lines even we are getting bored with -- sets the stage for closing the curtain on a show where we keep starring in our own suffering.