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Classroom Talk: 6/4/2003 - Whether his fear is for the loss of some imagined estate, or for his longing to gain the respect of others, here is why no one can hope to ever possess that which he fears losing: As long as one's heart and mind is ruled over by any desire, such a person does not rule himself... And how can someone who doesn't even possess himself ever hope to own anything else?
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Classroom Talk: 3/5/2003 - To live, to really live, means to take one's part in Real Life; and Real Life is always testing herself, which means to really be alive is to be tested. But Real Life never asks more of Herself than she has to give, so it isn't until we accept, willingly, whatever trials Life gives us that we are truly given Real Life.
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Classroom Talk: 2/26/2003 - Learn to let go of trying to protect yourself from psychological storms and watch how that tempest (in you) is actually just a "tea-pot" busy brewing up a discontented self.
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Classroom Talk: 1/26/2003 - In this life -- wherever we may go, regardless of what we may be doing -- if we are not aware of a shadow that trails behind us then we are not standing with the Light to our face.
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Classroom Talk: 1/15/2003 - We cannot hope to change the unwanted world that we experience without first working to change those parts of us that are, at present, creating the world that we feel needs to be changed.
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Classroom Talk: 12/13/2002 - There is no such thing as any "tomorrow" that one may long for that does not bring with it some unseen sorrow. Here is the reason for this Fact of Life: no "tomorrow" takes possession of one's mind that is not the child of some desire... and desire always bears twins; so that never is there a want born without a fear, nor any fear that is born without a want.
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There's a reason why we all love stories about ancient maps, sunken ships, and buried treasure. It's because these tales reflect a deep sensing we all have: that a hidden treasure actually dwells within us -- and if we could just find the way to discover it, our lives would shine every day with life's greatest wealth: the golden qualities of true confidence, unbounded energy, unfailing wisdom...