In the end, the kindest thing we can do for others is to always remember -- as best we can -- that within each of us lives the one true source of understanding, of compassion and love, and then strive to be that (spirit) for one and all.

Getting caught up in a mad rush feels like the natural solution whenever you're running late; but, in truth, all this frantic state really does is hide the lower level of self whose love of feeling anxious always finds a way to make its wish come true.

Classroom Talk: 4/20/2003 - Not for the hope of eternity, or in claiming that one loves the Light - for all gladly profess this affection merely for the pleasure of the thought - but it is our awareness of the eternal kingdom, and in surrendering ourselves to its immutable laws that we gain entrance to our own immortal spirit.

Classroom Talk: 2/27/2022 - Here is the real reason why so very few ever realize a conscious relationship with the Divine: higher Love is consummated only in the awareness and acceptance of one's own spiritual poverty... so that one's soul is slowly matured through an ever-deepening humility that is, itself, the doorway to Heaven.

Classroom Talk: 12/30/2020 - No one who loves the Divine -- who embraces the truth -- need ever fear what life brings down the road; remember: the effects of passing time must, necessarily, act upon what is created; that's what time does. But within us lives something Timeless, and its living Light can't be diminished or darkened by the...

Classroom Talk: 3/8/2020 - Just as beauty is not a concept -- and love isn’t an act of thought -- neither is the Answer to the Question of each passing moment something that can be known with the mind alone. Either the Answer appears with the question, or both the question and the answer have been missed.

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.

For every impulse, each movement in the expanding heavens, there is a gravity equal to it; for each light, each bit of love, there is a darkness, a resentment or regret. Our place, if we accept it, is to always be present to the possibility of empowering what is light and bright...

When we are hurt badly, the higher lesson hidden in this trial is to recognize the time has come to let go of who and what we have been up until the moment of loss.

Even though we all have our natural preference, no season of the year is greater than any other. Each plays an indispensable role in a cycle of life greater than its individual parts; and each one serves the season that follows on its heels, enabling it to fulfill its purpose in a procession as timeless as the earth itself...

Of what use is our endless struggle to adapt and even achieve some of the more common culturally-valued prizes, knowing (as all of us do) that nothing we can ever possess has the power to stave off our own inevitable passing? The following quotation that I just love is from Vernon Howard, a great twentieth century mystic, that really not only helps to put this idea that we're...

Classroom Talk: 4/25/2021 - Every truth ever discovered -- each new light that will ever burn bright -- already exists in our consciousness. All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice -- the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows -- awaits us within ourselves. Hidden in this truth is our...