Mindfulness

Topics Covered: The thing that our heart is searching for is not of this world, which means that the false self cannot find it by identifying with changing conditions; "In time all things are seeking completion. In the Now all things are complete." -- Maurice Nicoll; What is timeless is already here, we just don't usually see it. Our highest destiny awaits us above us, and what is...

Student Talks: 1/24/2020 - Key Lesson: Our mind is at last our own only when we can give it fully to the moment at hand, regardless of what life seems to hand us in that moment.

Classroom Talk: 2/24/2019 - Part 1: The struggle to somehow change ourselves into something "better" than what some unwanted moment reveals to us about ourselves is like trying to "improve" the color scheme of a breathtaking sunset by throwing a bucket of our favorite paint into the air... and then hoping that some of it sticks!

Classroom Talk: 2/17/2019 - No one can return to, let alone realize their right to a conscious relationship with the Divine indwelling Self, without first agreeing to pay the cost of consciously, completely releasing themselves from all that they have mistaken themselves to be...

Classroom Talk: 2/18/2024 - The present moment and our awareness of whatever may be passing into and through it are one consciousness, much in the same way as the Eye of The Beholder shares an awareness of both the mirror, and the object it reflects.

Classroom Talk: 9/24/2023 - True joy is uncalled for; it is like a breeze you didn't know you were waiting for; a silence that speaks of things eternal; (it is) to experience and realize the completion of something within you that you didn't even know was missing.

Classroom Talk: 2/7/2021 - A quiet mind is one that literally lives in a different world than does the mind that talks to itself.

Meditation Talk: 1/31/2020 - All things... be they character or creature -- animate or not -- speak to you from within yourself. The wildflower, the wind, the tumbling leaf and the dead branch that catches it: all have voices, and all may be heard. Learn to listen and you'll hear the Eternal as the sound of yourself.