Spiritual Sleep

Classroom Talk: 03/01/2026 - The fortunate soul who, seeing with only one eye -- even it, barely half-open -- is, in fact, a virtual king in any realm where all of its citizens are blind.

Classroom Talk: 10/19/2025 - Calling on anxious thoughts to check the rising tide of some fearful feeling is like trying to stop a landslide by throwing rocks at it! 

Classroom Talk: 06/08/2025 - The great universal misperception that secretly drives human conflict ­– with all of its sorrow and pain – is that the meaning of life is to be found somewhere outside of our own heart and mind.

Classroom Talk: 03/23/2025 - We can be -- and often are -- sound asleep going through the motions of life with our eyes wide open. To be able to see — to be aware of - what our mind is actually looking at, experiencing, and responding to…is the first step in the process of awakening; it not only strengthens our wish to attend to the present moment, but to remember that any time our mind is unattended…it slumbers in fitful dreams, from which it cannot awaken itself. 

Remastered Classic Talk: 02/21/2016 - The vast majority of humanity views the idea of spiritual rebirth as some sort of prize to be claimed and declared: a new and exciting personal possession, like having won a tropical island in a high-stakes lottery. But true rebirth is nothing of the kind; (it is) a distinct awareness within oneself of a timeless and intelligent awareness -- a fearless and abiding patience, burgeoning with expectation -- that is "in the world (of passing time), but not of it."

Classroom Talk: 01/12/2025 - Being in conscious relationship with what is Holy in life is only as possible as we are willing to see, and to be, accordingly, the whole of who and what we are in each moment.

Classroom Talk: 8/18/2024 - When, before our inner eyes, we always have someplace better to be, or find ourselves struggling to "add a cubit to our stature," we miss seeing two great liberating truths: First, all imagined destinations are dreams whose promised fulfillment fades the nearer we draw to them...and secondly, blinded as we are by our hope in this "tomorrow" that never comes, we miss seeing - and realizing - that our True Self is a field of possibilities whose riches are not only immediate, but everlasting.

Classroom Talk: 6/16/2024 - Those who live in dreams never realize how deep runs the temptation to dwell in them. Only those who have had a moment in the Sun -- who've glimpsed by its light what is real, and what is not -- understand something of the nature of the shadows in which they live, as well as how easy it is to forget that all of them... are unreal.

Classroom Talk: 12/13/2020 - The Divine journey begins with our gradual awakening to the timeless depth and breadth of our own sleeping consciousness. All that we are, and hope to be already resides therein... waiting to reveal its Light to whoever will dare make the leap into the seeming darkness of its perfect emptiness...

Topics covered: Love moves in slow motion; We make so much out of nothing; Reality is a singularity; To be unaware is to be spiritually asleep; Our consciousness has no awareness of itself; Beginning to doubt your own certainty produces an awareness of the opposites; I can't hurt you without having hurt myself first; You can't do any more than your consciousness allows...

Topics covered: Feeling tested and running into limitation; What is spiritual growth; We feel inconvenienced by life; In the same way we have a physical appetite we also have a psychological appetite; We are human ruminants; You see but don't see, you hear but don't hear, you touch but don't touch; Nature uses resistance for her perfection...