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Classroom Talk: 8/31/2005 - If we mistook the onboard activities of a luxury liner for being the same as the new country towards which we sail, and remained aboard upon making port, our loss would never be known. The same holds true whenever we mistake the limited world of thought, with its time-bound dreams, for being the same as the eternal kingdom of our spiritual potential.
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Classroom Talk: 8/2/2005 - A true aspiration to be limitless is natural. Our heart longs for a life that is greater than that which we have had so far. Furthermore, it is possible to see and understand what we need to so that we can live the kind of life our heart longs for. What stands in the way?
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Classroom Talk: 6/15/2005 - Beauty is more than just the experience of a unity greater than thought can measure; beauty gives evidence -- through our awareness of its expression -- that no observer exists apart from what is observed.
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Classroom Talk: 7/9/2004 - When we go through life giving of ourselves the bare minimum to get by, it should come as no surprise to us that life returns to us the same! Excellence is the child of effort, whose parents are known as Patience and Love.
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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: 11/24/2002 - Here is what the sincere seeker of truth must see if he or she would ever be free: Just as we have the creative power to manifest our desires, to turn thought into matter, so does the reverse hold true in the unseen world within ourselves. Desire also holds the power to transform the self held by that desire into the form of its nature...and no desire can ever be free.
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Classroom Talk: 9/6/2002 - Be encouraged by this truth and then do the inner work to realize the freedom it holds for you: Life itself never stands in our way. It never intends to hold us down. If something is seen by us as restricting our way, then, instead of backing away in resentment from what amounts to a vision of life provided for us by our own thickened thoughts about what we cannot be, let us turn our attention to the parts of us...
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Classroom Talk: 8/2/2002 - We must learn to look out at life with more than just our eyes. We must find out what it means to see with our heart, and to look at all of life's events through an awakened mind not blinded by selfish and self-limiting desires. As we learn what it means to see life with all of us doing the looking, we will also make the Great Discovery that Life has been trying to show us all along: just how Good, how whole and compassionate...
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We all know that unwanted moments seem to wait for us "right around the corner," making fear and worry our constant companions as we walk through this life. But while certain "shocks" are inevitable, being made a prisoner of some negative reaction to these moments is not!
There is a way to understand and use our inevitable frustration in life so that we don't continue to make the habitual angry response with all its harmful results. Instead of runaway forces taking charge of us, we would be in control...