Student Talks: 6/7/2019 - Key Lesson: No image is alive. If the pictures we cling to had the power to satisfy the desire that creates them, then a picture of food would ease our hunger, and painting a smile on the reflection of our face in a mirror would help console our broken heart.

Classroom Talk: 3/17/2019 - What most of us take for mostly innocent “social conversation”... is far from that; we’d be better off seeing these dialogues – including what drives them – for what they are in reality: a “cover-up,” where the real reason behind any compulsive chattering – with others, or in “talking things over” with ourselves –...

We are not meant to keep our eye on some "tomorrow" from which we blindly borrow the false pleasure of what "might be." Such dreams serve nothing save the sleeping self, an imagined sense of "self" that always realizes, too late, that its "hope in things seen" is the same as tomorrow's sorrow.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of July 16, 2018. Powers, pleasures, and possessions cannot "add a single cubit to your stature" any more than the ocean is enlarged when -- as is likely to happen on any given day -- surface winds and undersea currents create more waves than usual to roll across its endless surface.

The reason it's pointless to ask, or otherwise demand that someone explain himself to you for your troubled feelings over his words or actions, is because no one in the world can explain away a pain that you are creating for yourself.

There is no such thing as a "bad day"...only our inability to see the Good in it.

The more you imagine a problem, the more real it becomes.