Self-Knowledge

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: 3/23/2005 - Experience proves that whatever we seek to end usually lingers all the longer, which is why we must learn the Way to grant negative states their safe passage through us -- in spite of the temporary pain that always attends their appearance.

Classroom Talk: 12/17/2004 - Spiritual wisdom is our greatest wealth and, as we realize the truth of this -- so that true self-knowledge becomes our single greatest wish in life -- each moment of every one of our relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of ourselves.

Classroom Talk: 7/23/2004 - Closing our eyes to where we may be in the wrong in that moment of any strained relationship does not make what is wrong within us any less of a burden to bear, but it does ensure that wherever we go we will find ourselves "bumping" into others and, for our pride-induced blindness, continuing to blame them for what we have refused to see.

Classroom Talk: 7/11/2003 - Not only is beauty in the eye of the beholder, but so also is ugliness; and this simple truth is a timeless fact that those who fear self-knowledge fail to see. The Wise understand that Truth is always beautiful, even when it is hard to look at sometimes.

Classroom Talk: 7/11/2003 - Not only is beauty in the eye of the beholder, but so also is ugliness; and this simple truth is a timeless fact that those who fear self-knowledge fail to see. The Wise understand that Truth is always beautiful, even when it is hard to look at sometimes.