Wisdom

Remastered Classic Talk: 2/1/17 - 

Part 1: Between a reaction and our response (to it), we must find the will to repose. Without being able to enter into the timeless space between what stirs us, and what it reveals within us, it's likely that what we see as a wise choice (in that moment) will prove itself an action born of some ignorance yet to be realized.

Part 2: Knowledge doesn't exist without the past, while Wisdom has no past.

Classroom Talk: 10/9/2024 - Anyone who refuses to face their fears will never know the true nature of faith, let alone its power to dispel any form of worry, confusion, or painful self-doubt.

Student Talks: 5/13/2022 - Key Lesson: As long as our reactions are seen as choices, and the "voices" that support them as thoughts of our own, it doesn't matter what we call our life... any more than calling a circle a straight line changes the fact that all it does is go round and round.

Topic: Uncover the Divine Treasure Hidden in Every Moment (Classroom Talk 1/19/22)

Classroom Talk: 1/19/2022 - Divine wisdom refreshes the soul by renewing (its) faith... but not faith in the hope of a time to come; rather the willing soul flourishes in the Light of its timeless relationship with revelation... and the consequent realization it has already been given all that is Good, True, and Everlasting.

Topic: How to Exercise the Timeless Wisdom Hidden Within You (11/3/21 Classroom Talk)

Student Talks: 11/5/2021 - Key Lesson: Spiritual wisdom is our greatest wealth. And when, at long last we see this is true -- so that our first love in life becomes the wish to discover the truth of ourselves -- then each moment of every relationship serves as the doorway to the indwelling Divine.

Classroom Talk: 11/3/2021 - Part 1: Every wise saying that stirs the heart, or helps illuminate the mind, is a kind of Divine seed: each speaks in its own tongue of some timeless chapter and verse, but always hinting of -- and silently pointing to -- the Book of Truth from which it has come. Part 2: Wisdom never gets old because its true nature is timeless; knowledge is...

Topic: The Karma-Free Path to Being Perfectly Complete (4/21/21 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 4/21/2021 - Part 1: Every moment spent in the love of wisdom, accompanied by our wish to keep its company regardless the cost, helps us build an unseen but eternal bridge between the deepest and highest parts of ourselves. Part 2: The importance of working to develop our attention is found in the appearance of a new kind...

Topic: The Wisdom You Need to Surrender Useless Suffering (2/17/21 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 2/17/2021 - In the end, the only thing we can truly be in charge of… is ourself. And yet, as paradoxical it seems, the cost of true self-command is the same as the conscious surrender of self.