Opposites

Classroom Talk: 4/23/2003 - Just as the still waters of a quiet pond effortlessly mirror the depths of the sky that towers above it, so does the silent mind reflect with ease upon the Divine that dwells within it.

Classroom Talk: 2/9/2003 - No one succeeds in Life who is driven through it, because unless you are at the wheel of your own thoughts and feelings, they are incapable of reaching a natural stop. Crashing into Life is not what it means to rest.

Classroom Talk: 1/8/2003 - There once was a fellow named "Will", Whose intellect fell down a hill, But it dragged Will along 'Cause he wasn't that strong, And neither ever got over their spill!

Classroom Talk: 11/24/2002 - Here is what the sincere seeker of truth must see if he or she would ever be free: Just as we have the creative power to manifest our desires, to turn thought into matter, so does the reverse hold true in the unseen world within ourselves. Desire also holds the power to transform the self held by that desire into the form of its nature...and no desire can ever be free.

Classroom Talk: 10/6/2002 - No one wins a war that rages on born of fighting with his perceived enemy, but everyone loses who runs in fear of engagement. Victory is assured only to the one who will neither fight nor flee, but who will embrace his foe until there is no one remaining to either win or lose the contested ground.

Classroom Talk: 9/18/2002 - It may be fairly said that one has only found his True Place in life -- a place undiminished by time, unassailable by tide -- when he knows this place resides in the very center of his heart and seeks it no place else.

Classroom Talk: 9/15/2002 - Stillness is the backdrop of all that moves, and one's unwavering awareness of this Stillness is the backdrop of the Eternal Opposites at play in ceaseless motion. This means that within one's own awakened state of awareness rests not only the potential to transcend the passages of time, but to live within an un-passing, unsurpassed, and Timeless Peace that might be called the Ground of God.

Classroom Talk: 8/28/2002 - The pain in being a human being is not because we are divided in our soul, but because we are created to be Whole in God.  If we had not this vestige of Holiness, we would never know the pain of being apart from it.

Classroom Talk: 8/25/2002 - What possible Good is there in seeking Love or Peace in a time or place to come when everything along the way that thwarts your dream causes some kind of resentment or is seen as yet another disturbance to avoid!

Classroom Talk: 6/26/2002 - Whatever it may be that life serves up to us, regardless of its original character, it has the potential of being made Divine whenever we will agree to add to it a dash of our wish to let God prepare us!