These five special insights present the case for -- as well as the cost of -- true Spiritual Independence. Welcome them into your mind and watch how their secret instructions lead you to the unconditional freedom that your heart longs for. To weigh the value of what this world can reward you with -- you need only to remove the scales from your eyes; for were you willing to measure how many t...

I do not have to be better than you have made me, For you have created me in your image And there is perfection in this promise. But I do have to bear what you would make of me, If I wish to know my maker. Perhaps the greatest, yet least understood spiritual secret in the World is that being what I am is what it takes to make me better; Because only within what I am Is what **...

To know, To will... To dare to see. To strive, To live... To die to Be.

Classroom Talk: 4/2/2023 - There is no reward for love, let alone for being "loving." Either love ITSELF is the reward, or it is not.

Classroom Talk: 2/6/2022 - The more we realize our higher, true role in life is to act as an agent for atoning the appearance of "what is" with "what has been" -- by agreeing to surrender the parts of us that interfere with this reconciliation -- the more we see the beauty of this sacrifice as inseparable from an ineffable peace that comes with no longer being apart from Real Life.

Classroom Talk: 8/1/2021 - Part 1: Whoever doesn't know himself, suffers uselessly for the sake of ignorance. Whoever works to know himself, agrees to suffer for the sake of wisdom. Whoever becomes wise, slays the suffering born of ignorance. And whoever transcends the useless suffering of ignorance shares in the birth and burden of creation, in which can be found...

Classroom Talk: 7/30/2021 - Our greatest gift -- our highest possibility -- may be summarized as follows: not only are we created to give ourselves to what we love, but we are able to discern the difference between an order of Love that sacrifices itself for the sake of something greater than itself, and a kind of love that lives only to give itself what it imagines will make it great.

Classroom Talk: 7/4/2021 - Our greatest gift -- the heart and soul of our Divine possibility -- may be summarized as follows: not only are we created to give ourselves to what we love, but that we are able to discern -- consciously -- the difference between one order of Love that sacrifices itself for the sake of something Greater than itself, and another kind of love... that lives only to give itself what it imagines makes it great.

Classroom Talk: 6/27/2021 - Contemplation is sustained attention on a question the heart holds in its keeping, knowing, full well, that the mind -- of itself -- cannot answer. This form of sustained conscious inquiry is the ground of true meditation: it is creation aware of itself.