Free Will

There are three ways to get what one wants from life: industry, cunning, or love. Industry is good but at best conditional, for it is subject to the passage and ravages of time. The "crafty" inevitably trap themselves. Love, on the other hand, liberates those who seek its company, and it is timeless. When all is said and done, this order of love has the last word because it is its own reward: whatever we are willing to let it make of us, it fashions from itself.

Student Talks: 10/25/2024 - Key Lesson: United we see, and are free; divided we struggle...and fall.

Topics covered: New, true self-knowledge reorders the world that you see. You see the world through the order of your mind - but right now the order of your mind is the world’s order; When you see the truth of something, that truth creates stillness; Feeling good about the work isn't the same as doing the work. There is a part of you always looking for a way to get around what needs to be done.

Student Talks: 10/20/2019 - Key Lesson: There's a simple reason why small children are seemingly fearless: they are more interested in what the moment is giving them...than they are fearful for having imagined what it may withhold.

Classroom Talk: 10/20/2024 - United we see, and are free; divided we struggle...and fall.