Wisdom

Classroom Talk: 12/12/2003 - Some come upon the truth of things only once they've run aground on the reefs of remorse; others long for anchorage in what endures only after the winds of fortune slack off, leaving their sails full of emptiness. But the Wise seek the Truth of themselves aright; they search moment to moment within the tides of their everyday affairs, and never look back to see if their wish to know what is Eternal and True has taken their vessel too far out to sea.

Classroom Talk: 10/1/2003 - Part 1: No one sets out to find ways to comfort himself without having first consented to making his own discontented nature King or Queen for the duration of that search. Part 2: Our spiritual sleep is upon a bed of thorns lightly covered by fragrant petals.

Classroom Talk: 7/23/2003 - If people could tell the difference, and were allowed to speak only what are original impressions, the world would suddenly fall into a deep and sweet silence.

Classroom Talk: 12/29/2002 - One cannot have a true wish for the love of God without it being God's Love making that wish (within him), any more than one could wait in hopeful anticipation of a sunrise who had never before stood in the warming rays of dawn's early light.

Classroom Talk: 8/21/2002 - Whatever is True, Right, and Real in any human being need no more seek approval for its own nature than does an eagle in full flight hope to hear the "caw-caw" of some crow below it, calling out to it about how confident it looks soaring alone through the wide, open sky!