Patience

The way the mind works now, it looks out and there's just this world with you that messes with it, and me that wants it right. It's all one world to me. But awakening is the sudden realization that somehow or other what I took to be the only world isn't the only world.

If you were empowered to change life -- in order to give yourself whatever is always good and true for you to know and have -- would you ever make any other kind of changes? For example, would you fear unexpected events, such as a loss of some kind? No! Even though they may come as a surprise, you already know that they herald a new beginning of something better.

It's a little-known secret that our experience of life in any given moment is a direct reflection of what we actually value in that same moment. We may deny this unsettling truth, but when it comes to what we are in relationship with, inwardly and outwardly, actions speak louder than words--and, seen or not, all actions are a choice of one kind or another...

Student Talks: 8/30/2024 - Key Lesson: We are so occupied trying to fill our lives with what we want that we can't see how all that we need is being given to us freely every moment of the day.

Student Talks: 6/2/2023 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Realize the amount of pain in your impatience, and in that revelation you will also know the extent to which you're deceived about who you are, and the true purpose of (your) life. Part 2: The vast majority of humanity views the idea of spiritual rebirth as a prize to be claimed: some sort of special possession, like winning a tropical island in a high-stakes lottery.

Student Talks: 2/19/2021 - Key Lesson: Much as a jeweler uses his grinding wheel to remove any rough edges remaining on an otherwise perfect gem, so all of our relationships are designed to help "polish" one another's heart... that they might more perfectly reflect a higher order of Love whose power helps heal all involved.

Student Talks: 2/14/2020 - Key Lesson: Patience... is everything: With it, Life eventually reveals the secret of its (invisible) celestial perfection. But, without patience, we struggle to escape the false perception of an imperfect world that refuses to march to the drum of our self-induced painful demands.

Student Talks: 12/6/2019 - Key Lesson: Patience is painful to those parts of us that believe rushing is natural, necessary, and required of anyone who wants to be a more productive human being.

Student Talks: 10/9/2019 - Key Lesson: Every moment is a marriage made in heaven, so why are you still waiting outside the door?

Student Talks: 7/26/2019 - Key Lesson: Patience always "wins" the day, but only if, and as we agree to finish the "race."

Student Talks: 4/26/2019 - Key Lesson: Our impatience with others does not prove that we are better than they; what it does show, however, is the depth and breadth of how unaware and identified we are with some flattering, but false image we have of ourselves. This imagined self must constantly work to keep its imagined...

Student Talks: 1/18/2019 - Key Lesson: Spiritual patience is a priceless reconciling virtue that's learned, and earned in one way, and in one way only: by awakening to -- and then agreeing to consciously suffer -- what our impatience does to everyone and everything... not just around us, but within us, as well.