God's Will

Have you ever looked down at a sidewalk or parking lot and marveled at a single blade of grass that had somehow found the will and the way to break through the pavement and out into the fresh air and sunlight? When we think of a titanic struggle, we don't usually think of a little seed of grass buried in the darkness and fighting to get out in the light. And yet, even though we may...

Topics covered:  If the Kingdom of Heaven is within, then there is no distance between you and the Kingdom, and it takes no time to get there. Whatever is keeping you from knowing that must be something that sits outside of the Kingdom; It is impossible to resist "what is" without there being within us some unseen presence of a fixed position that is already in place. There cannot be a struggle with "what is" without the presence of something that is fixed.

Topics covered:  When I am caught up in some conflict in my life, I unconsciously turn to the nature responsible for that conflict to end it, but it can't do it; "The way the wise man became wise is that he stopped answering his own questions." -Vernon Howard; The answer I come up with to address a problem may temporarily resolve it or give me a way to navigate around it, but I keep coming back to the same problems, which means the consciousness that created them never changed.

Topics covered: Love does not appear in a time to come after you get what you want. The Love that we cannot give ourselves is always acting on all of creation; We long to give ourselves to something greater than ourselves, and the longing is placed there within us by what is greater; People are afraid to walk away from things that they think they need to produce for themselves, even though attachment to those very things is the cause of...

Topics covered: What if there really is only one answer to every painful question you have ever had about life?; Rumi said, "The antidote is in the venom." Sometimes alongside a poisonous plant in nature is another plant that is the remedy to the poison; Following right on the tail of any disturbing moment are questions about what the disturbance means and how to resolve it...

Topics covered: Spiritual ideas exists to point to the possibility of a permanent connection, a bridge, that can be established between Heaven and Earth; The goodness of any creature cannot be separated from what it serves; Light becomes matter as it makes its way down through the ray of creation. Dense matter returning to light is what rebirth is...

Classroom Talk: 12/21/2003 - True self-remembrance begins with becoming conscious of what happens to us in our forgetfulness. The Truth can only set free those who remember how much they are in need of its rescuing Light.

Classroom Talk: 12/14/2003 - Always strive to apply yourself. Deliberately attend to each moment of life, for nothing is gained in casual absence except to lose our time. But when we give ourselves to what the moment tells, we gain not only the knowledge of what is unfolding around us, but we are taught by what unfolds within us as well.

Classroom Talk: 11/12/2003 - Show me someone who has chosen to run from the interior struggle to be a true, considerate, and Light-filled being, and I will show you someone being carried off by darkness into a world destined for destruction... For the outcome of the battle between what is Light, and all else that is not, is already decided.

Classroom Talk: 7/20/2003 - Whenever we ask, "What did I do to deserve this?" we have forgotten that we ask for what we receive with every thought and feeling we embrace and to which we give life. The great axiom with regards to realizing this spiritual truth is that the plant always reveals the seed.

Classroom Talk: 5/14/2003 - Real wisdom begins with growing weary of seeing how your best answers for how to live always leave you with a heartache.

Classroom Talk: 5/4/2003 - It isn't until we realize that our True Nature can never be known, only continually discovered, that we become the conscious and fearless explorers of reality that we are created to be; moving in and out of complementary or conflicting moments alike with the same ease as does a dolphin take delight in carving its way through the endless currents of the sea.