Wisdom

Classroom Talk: 8/29/2021 - Be wise. Stay attentive to all that you do, for there comes no second error that doesn't follow on the heels of a first.

Classroom Talk: 1/24/2021 - Just as a those who climb mountains must, at times, reach above themselves to gain a grip on a narrow ledge, we too must dare to go beyond ourselves if we wish to reach, let alone change our destiny. To that end, we must never forget the following truth: There's no danger in self-ascent, only in remaining who we have been.

Classroom Talk: 12/4/2019 Most of us are filled with wants that change nothing about who we are, let alone answer the emptiness inside. If we must ask for something, let it be for greater Wisdom; for possessions and powers come and go... but Wisdom is Now, and forever.

Topics Covered: You don't know you're asleep until you bump into something; There are parts of us that are laying in wait; Memory uses the disturbance to produce "someone" who is disturbed; You don't understand the severity of your psychological state; You don't own your own mind; As goes my intention, so comes my revelation; You are never in a neutral place; Every awakened person has one thi...

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!