Here are two proven ways you can learn to work in the Now to ensure that you reach ever-higher levels of personal freedom. Our honest examination of these spiritual assertions -- based upon our own life experience -- proves our need to realize their promise. For best results, first meditate on what each statement means in and of itself. Let the freedom it illustrates awaken in you the remembra...

Classroom Talk: 7/13/2003 - An advanced spiritual lesson: Nothing is final, but direction determines destiny. Every moment accurately reflects one's nature, even though all things are in flux as they assume form. Only this understanding is complete, yet it cannot be possessed.

When living within the limits of what is known is also realized as being the limitation of your spiritual possibilities, then there is no recourse other than to depart the safety of all that you have been in favor of discovering all that you are yet to be.

The more complex your life, the more vulnerable it is to the random exterior forces that can cause it to come crashing down. This is why -- speaking both physically and psychologically -- the simpler your life, the more stable it is; when one's peace of mind requires juggling many parts... all the more easily does one's peace come tumbling down.

We imagine the impossible for ourselves to temporarily look upon ourselves as doers of greatness. Work to do the possible by conquering our own self-created imaginings.

You have said that there was a time when men and women understood that without a relationship with something higher, they didn't have a real life. Their lives were built on the understanding that they were working, growing, developing. They may have had jobs and families, but their lives were based in a completely different relationship with life -- a relationship that is all but gone today. C...

Exercise: Identify the points that dominate you and cause you to rush, get angry, be arrogant, etc. When the tests come, agree to stand in the moment and 'exercise' your soul and spirit by choosing in favor of character instead. Each time you enter into the interior spiritual gym you will gain a greater clarification of your weaknesses, and little by little will develop an alignment with what...

Finally after 47 years I understand and feel the desire to understand the difference between the true self and the false self, and to clean up my life and my mind. When my mind starts to wander (which is almost all the time), I practice bringing myself back to the present moment. I am committed and really want to do this. However, I am feeling quite anxious and lost each day. A lot of uncomfor...

Last week I had a strong feeling of generalized anxiety come over me, even though there was no apparent cause. I want to remain with the emotion in order to understand it. I watch it, and it lifts, only to return again. I realize that anything "I" try to do to "get rid of it" will guarantee its return, or perhaps make it even worse. I want to use this strong emotion to break through its veil o...

Classroom Talk: 8/31/2005 - If we mistook the onboard activities of a luxury liner for being the same as the new country towards which we sail, and remained aboard upon making port, our loss would never be known. The same holds true whenever we mistake the limited world of thought, with its time-bound dreams, for being the same as the eternal kingdom of our spiritual potential.

What is more powerful -- the sex energy or my own true nature? My gut feeling is that it is my true nature, the free mind, and this means that I have a choice whether I want sex or not in my life. By exercising this choice, I am the master and sex energy is the tool. I, the master, will decide whether to use this tool or not. The tool does not have any power over me. While this is my understan...

Seeing the spiritually lost state, the interior bankruptcy of other human beings can be used to accelerate your own relationship with the Divine, but only if you understand that you are not on this earth to judge the nature of others, but to transcend it.