Classroom Talk: 11/19/2023 - The single greatest unseen cause of premature aging, stress-related health issues, and ultimately of death is... the deeply mistaken, agonizing idea that somehow our constant struggle to control the outcome of any moment we fear will one day free us from these moments we fear.

Classroom Talk: 7/3/2019 The more we consent to see that whatever we've imagined as needed from this world to make us feel whole, and then sought after in some equally imagined time to come -- is no closer today than in any time before it -- the nearer we are to attaining a holiness realized no other way: by agreeing, consciously...

Classroom Talk: 11/14/2018 - Here is why rushing from place to place -- from thought to thought -- is the same as going nowhere at all: in one's constant haste to reach the end of some self-spun story -- where he dreams he will, at last, claim the peace he imagines awaits him there -- he runs right by the truth he must see...that is, if he wishes to be set free: there is no story he can tell himself that doesn't develop,...