I want you to remember for the rest of your life on this earth that you were never created to be the slave of any negative thought or feeling, that you were never created to be the subject of some limitation. The only way you'll ever know the truth of that statement is when, through what is ultimately a long process in this education of the soul, you begin at last to experience the dawning o...

10 Exercises for increasing your spiritual memory. Remember that every effort you make to remember to remember God increases His interest in you.

Some take the high road. Some take the low road. Some take the road with friends and family. Others take it alone. Some travel with clowns and animals. Some take only walking shoes. Some take the road with guru and saint, While others take the road with drunks. Some walk the road so slowly as to stand still, Even as some sprint toward a finish line as if it's in sight. Some...

When your senses reel, And all you can feel Is the pull of the world on you ... ... Cling fast to your Aim, Remember His name And strive in your Work to be True.

Student Talks: 4/19/2024 - Key Lesson: If -- by the light of remembering and considering what is Timeless, Holy, and True -- the heart is warmed and gradually enflamed, then the following must be true, even if yet to be seen: within us must dwell some sort of celestial kindling; what else can explain how such a flame is created, let alone serve as a light in the darkness of the soul... uniting the twain, making of them as one.

Student Talks: 1/26/2024 - Key Lesson: Never forget that no real spiritual effort is ever in vain, even when you're given to see some low estate into which you have fallen. In turn, always remember: the ocean into which all rivers eventually empty themselves is always at their lowest point, and that this lowly place is, in fact, the origin and source of their waters.

Student Talks: 4/8/2022 - Key Lesson: Practicing the Presence -- working to remember the truth of yourself -- doesn't necessarily change the kind of events that come to you; that's not how it works. But, what your inner work does change is for whom -- upon what 'I' -- will these events fall and, accordingly, the purpose they serve.

Student Talks: 12/17/2021 - Key Lesson: What is, always was; but what always was... need not remain as it is.

Student Talks: 9/24/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Love is effortless attention. Part 2: In remembering the Divine, in that recollection of the truth of ourselves, we bring to the forefront of our heart and mind an all-encompassing Presence that cannot punish itself, or any other; whereas in forgetfulness, we forgo this relationship, and fall under the authority of a dark nature whose intent is to...

Classroom Talk: 6/23/2021 - One sure sign an aspirant has entered upon the true upper path -- and now stands on the threshold between the Kingdom of Heaven and (this) earth -- is as follows: He or she longs more for the whole experience of Life more than they want -- and keep running after -- the sensations born of ceaseless separate life experiences.

Classroom Talk: 1/20/2021 - In this world, there are three paths by which one carves out his or her destiny: cunning, industry, or love of truth. The "crafty" ones inevitably trap themselves. And while industry is good... it is, at best, conditional; all things created are subject to the passage -- and ravages -- of time. Love of truth, on the other hand...

Classroom Talk: 8/5/2020 - The wish and the work to be present -- to live in the Presence moment -- is the upper path. The "steps" alternate between complementary discoveries: first seeing within ourselves where and how we fall spiritually asleep... A discovery that, in turn, becomes both impetus and the power we need to wake up and to walk out of...