Selfishness / Self-Love

Classroom Talk: 9/29/2004 - No one fails who falls in the battle to be a better human being, for while the "flesh" is often weak -- Spirit is indomitable -- and always rises anew, strengthened for its experience and ready to start again.

Classroom Talk: 12/19/2003 - Just as the value of a precious stone is known by how well it reflects back the light that enters into it, so too is the worth of the human heart a reflection of the life it absorbs and transforms, and then gives back to others.

Classroom Talk: 12/14/2003 - Always strive to apply yourself. Deliberately attend to each moment of life, for nothing is gained in casual absence except to lose our time. But when we give ourselves to what the moment tells, we gain not only the knowledge of what is unfolding around us, but we are taught by what unfolds within us as well.