One can't 'want' and 'be' at the same time, because the being of wanting is of the 'earth,' and the wanting of being is of the Spirit.

If we must fall in spiritual battle, let it not be fear that brings us to our knees, but for the failure of our strength. For any strength tested and found lacking in our hour of need is renewed and made greater. But, when fear is renewed, it is our weakness that increases, and we find ourselves having fallen faster and faster.

There is not a person on earth that does not suffer from what something inside of him or her loves. A man who is addicted to a drug suffers over what something within him loves, at the cost of his own mortality. A woman with a gambling addiction suffers because of what something within her loves, at the cost of her finances, relationships, and integrity. We spend our time doing what we love.

Before you can learn how to change your destiny, you must first realize that secret place within yourself where your own future is created. You must consciously enter that place of power where all of your life-choices are made for you. It's called the Present Moment: The Now. And this Now is the seed of all that comes later. The following paragraph helps us see into this great mystery. It's o...

Classroom Talk: 2/9/2020 - Part 1: Seek first the Truth of yourself: there cannot be two firsts in our life, otherwise the first of today...becomes the last of tomorrow and, ultimately, what is lost is our opportunity to enter into a conscious relationship with what is timelessly wise, and perfectly loving. Part 2: Growing pains are inescapable for all those...

Only through our willingness to be made aware of all that we are -- high and low, light and dark -- will we ever come to realize the perfect freedom now lying dormant in our own celestial possibilities.

Topics covered: How does one resolve active and passive forces moment by moment; Why does my mind do its best to avoid stillness; My search for answers has taken me down many paths -- how do I know what's true; With so much greed and deception in the world, how can I trust the universe is unfolding as it should; I don't want to censor myself just because people are overly sensitive; How can I...

Topics covered: We live in a world that increasingly passes the buck; As thought becomes unable to deal with its problems, it turns to physical relief; No one else is responsible for your experience of the moment; Your work is to bring you to a place where you have no idea what is going on; The purpose of a sun is to illuminate the space into which it has been thrust -- in scale, this is a hum...

Seen through the eyes of higher self-knowledge, our weaknesses, whatever their nature, are (each) the secret seed of a new strength unlike anything imagined in our unending dream of overcoming what now defeats us.

The more any one of your own thoughts or feelings tries to hurry, or otherwise push you along, the more you should work inwardly to slow down and to meet, directly, that part of yourself that promises you peace 'just ahead'... as long as you agree to endure its pain first.

The wish -- and the work it takes to make real and lasting changes (in your life) -- is incompatible with wanting to be comfortable.

How can we begin the process of transcending our own limiting self-centered love to come into a fully conscious and impersonal one? One of the most shocking and necessary discoveries along the path is that what we love does not love us. We are filled all the time with powerful feelings and emotions that seem to lift or otherwise provide purpose and self-worth. It is not too much to say th...