Persistence / Adversity

Classroom Talk: 3/30/2005 - If you stop trying to pull things into your life, Or struggling to push them out, You gladly discover you're are neither a teapot, Nor what pours out from its spout!

Classroom Talk: 10/31/2004 - Just as you can't toss a pebble into a pond without making small waves that spread out to touch its banks, so is it true that our sincere spiritual effort makes ripples in unseen realities, waves that touch and transform the shores of the soul.

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.

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.

Classroom Talk: 8/20/2003 - Patient persistence in our labors, coupled with persistent patience through-out each one: these two powers serve not only to perfect the task at hand, but also work in harmony to perfect the hand that undertakes the task.