What is our joy in those rare moments when we’re suddenly transported to its high mountaintop home, other than having been reminded, by the fleeting reflection of some beauty or harmony within us...

All of life's innumerable "shake-ups, breakups, and wake-ups" take place within what we call the "present moment." This ever-open window into life--through which we see the newness of life unfolding before us--is something much, much greater than all of the individual events that pass through it to reveal it.

The love we have for anything holy or true is already present (within our heart)... before we can think of any reason for this love that we feel. To know this truth from yourself is to also understand why -- if you stay true to this love -- you can't fail to find it... and to realize it as your own.

Topics covered:  You can't be at peace with the moment itself until you are at peace with yourself; It is inevitable that everything in nature is always being acted upon and being completed through that action. Why is that not true of us when it comes to a relationship with the Divine? What is interfering with this "Divine inevitability"?; What is it within us that sets boundaries? We end up as prisoners locked within the very boundaries that have been set, and then fear anything that threatens to trespass. We become walking "No Trespassing" signs.

Remastered Classic Talk: 11/9/16 - 

Part 1: We resist not what we see as being fearful, but rather what fear sees whenever we look at our life through its eyes. And the reason this fearful nature trembles, as it does, resisting its own dark vision, is so that it can feel unsuited to meet the very situation that it has imagined.

Part 2: We are never overpowered by a negative reaction, regardless how strong it may seem; rather we are overcome by misunderstanding our actual relationship with that dark thought, or emotional state.

 

Classroom Talk: 9/11/2024 - For anyone with ears to hear, there is but one question and one answer: will we wait patiently for a single moment of relationship with what is eternal and real? Where - by the ineffable touch of something as unknowable as it is timeless - all the moments of our life - past, present, and future - are forever changed? Otherwise, we waste the precious few moments of our life chasing the pleasure of an imagined time to come that recedes from our grasp in the same instant that we reach for it.

The endless -- and futile effort -- to complete yourself in a time to come is as hopeless as trying to free yourself from a pressing hunger pain by...

Only by daring to see the truth of ourselves in challenging moments will we ever see, and then be set free by the revelations that await us there...

I know there must be a relationship between good physical health and true spiritual principles, but what part does Truth play when it comes to our healing? When I am in physical pain and not in control of what my body is doing, is there a tip you can give me for easing the seemingly inevitable anxiety? I am always so impressed with people who are able to overcome their physical impairments wit...

Painful concern over why others behave as they do is one of the subtle ways in which we hide from ourselves a certain form of suffering born out of being unconsciously identified with them, so that our pain is rarely the fact that these people are not as self-ruling as we imagine they ought to be -- but that their ungainly behavior is rocking our fragile sense of self that is rooted in our ima...

In our virtually constant state of distress, we almost never stop asking the world -- and everyone we know in it -- to complete us...

Could it be possible that we are on this earth to spend our time worrying about money? Endlessly trying to figure out ways to please ourselves? Is there any remote chance that the reason we are here is to carry a hatred for years and years? To do nothing but think about ways to secure power, possessions, or approval? That doesn't make sense, does it? But clearly there...