Quiet Mind / Stillness

Topic: Start Tipping the Scales in Favor of Your Spiritual Success (5/19/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: This world cannot answer what the soul seeks in order to know itself; The only times we resolve to make a request of God is when we are troubled; Because we think we see the source of our suffering with clarity, we also think we see with clarity the solution to it; We need true self-knowledge, if we're willing to receive it; The lower level of consciousness that we presently...

Classroom Talk: 5/19/2021 - How could we ever know even the smallest thing about the possibility of Unconditional Love -- that perfectly still, undivided Divine center-point from out of which creation itself comes into existence -- were it not for our gift of being able to bear witness to the union of the opposites within us...

Student Talks: 2/12/2021 - Key Lesson: A quiet mind is one that literally lives in a different world than does the mind that talks to itself.

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...

Topic: The One Answer to All Questions (3/8/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: The One Answer to All Questions (3/8/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 3/8/2020 - Just as beauty is not a concept -- and love isn’t an act of thought -- neither is the Answer to the Question of each passing moment something that can be known with the mind alone. Either the Answer appears with the question, or both the question and the answer have been missed.

The more willing we are to see the truth of ourselves as revealed in each passing moment, and then do our level best to attend to its silent instruction, the more truth seems to "follow us around," making straight the Way.