Imagination

Classroom Talk: 8/1/2003 - The difference between being angry with ourselves, or at someone else, is found only in the image held in our mind at which we lash out. Either way, the effect of this unconscious fire in us is always the same: It is we who get burned!

Classroom Talk: 4/27/2003 - The natural sensations that attend daily living have nothing in common with being truly sensitive to life. The former is born of cascading reactions that begin and end in time, while the latter is related to True Conscience and is as timeless as the eternal Wisdom to which it gives evidence. Learning to discern the difference between these two states of our own being is a prerequisite to realizing Real Life.

Classroom Talk: 4/23/2003 - Just as the still waters of a quiet pond effortlessly mirror the depths of the sky that towers above it, so does the silent mind reflect with ease upon the Divine that dwells within it.

Classroom Talk: 4/11/2003 - The only medicine guaranteed to help heal the common conflict that flares up between ourselves and another is our willingness to realize, explore, and then release our own negative reaction to what we believe we see as being the other person's transgression.

Classroom Talk: 4/11/2003 - The only medicine guaranteed to help heal the common conflict that flares up between ourselves and another is our willingness to realize, explore, and then release our own negative reaction to what we believe we see as being the other person's transgression.

Classroom Talk: 2/21/2003 - Until we can be content wherever we are, we will never get any closer to the Home of Real Happiness.

Classroom Talk: 11/17/2002 - If we could only see that any self that sits in judgment over us is not the perfected nature that it passes itself off as being, but is secretly an imperfection in us that only appears true to us due to the unexamined contrast it creates in us by its accusations, then we would at last strip off the mask of our accuser and be free to realize the truth of ourselves without self-destructive conflict.

Classroom Talk: 10/25/2002 - Life itself has never weighed-in so heavily upon us as to hurt us; rather it is we who -- in ignorance of reality -- carelessly attribute weight to events that are essentially without substance, causing ourselves to suffer nothing less than the fervent magnitude of our own imagination.

Classroom Talk: 10/16/2002 - There is no fate worse in life than to be a hater of Truth. And whoever turns against the truth does not know his hatred is secretly of himself, for the shadows that torment him are not caused by the truth but are the dark effect of his having turned his back on the Living Light.

Classroom Talk: 8/18/2002 - Part 1: Enlightenment is not knowledge of the whole universe, but to live in communion with its perfect design and divine purpose. Part 2: To be empowered to act upon what we know is True and Good for us requires being present to ourselves in the moment of being tempted to make choices that have proven themselves to be unproductive or even self-destructive; so that the first step in finding and living the Truthful Life comes...