Wholeness / Oneness

Classroom Talk: 2/19/2023 - My most contented hours are those filled with emptiness; and I regret -- as comes their appointed time -- having to fill these precious moments with what is little more than the mandatory, but mostly empty business of this world: attending to all of the virtually endless forms that are, at best, shadows of the real... at worst, vanities.

Classroom Talk: 7/10/2022 - The problems and pains that plague a divided mind disappear in the same moment as they appear in a mind unified with itself.

Classroom Talk: 10/10/2021 - Time is a wrinkle in the mind: and much as the silent reflection of a cloud-filled sky can't be seen upon the wind-tossed waters of a mountain lake, neither can the reflection of Heaven be seen in a mind churning with thought.

Classroom Talk: 7/25/2021 - We cannot change ourselves by actions in fractions, any more than we can transform sour milk into sweet cream by removing one soured curd at a time. Either the whole of us changes, or not. Seeing ourselves in the mirror of the Divine is not an achievement arrived at by imagining unity one piece at a time. Our true Self is not its individual parts...

Classroom Talk: 5/16/2021 - Enlightenment is not an "achievement" because part of its realization is there's no one there to claim it... any more than one can "own" sunlight. (It is) a level of being that sees, effortlessly, the following truth: Real Life is secretly a single, beautiful movement incapable of contradicting itself. The more we're...

Classroom Talk: 1/17/2021 - Part 1: There is only one path that leads to a relationship with what is holy, and therefore to a Life (that is) already complete, and that is to see without flinching - and finally without regret - the following truth. All of the eye-catching paths we first imagine, and then rush to take - seeing them as leading us...

Classroom Talk: 4/10/2020 - Part 1: Love is an endless journey nestled into a self-perfecting plan that can't be "seen," only lived; its never-ending path unfolds within a timeless Kingdom wherein everyone -- and everything -- we meet along the way is our traveling partner. Part 2: The vast majority of humanity views the idea of spiritual rebirth...

Your life is just a stream of thought; Thought is a ceaseless postponement; I've never felt what it is like to truly be alive; You are being given life, you are not the creator of it; There's fear in imitation; The fact of the moment has no residue in it whatsoever; You live from a nature that's in a perpetual scramble to protect itself; I don't know what to do about how I feel...

Meditation Talk: 8/30/2019 - Mind is not intellect itself, nor is (our) Heart the seat of emotion alone; real mind is the marriage of a higher order of intellect and heart: wherein feeling is wisdom -- and wisdom is, in turn, feeling. These seemingly different parts (of us) were never intended to be separate... as they now are for the majority of humanity...

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...