Classroom Talk: 6/27/2003 - The habitual assumption that life's answer to our request to realize a New Life is going to be "No," effectively ensures that our wish will not be granted! Any part of our being that unhappily assumes something negative will happen to us doesn't just see life as a dark and regret-filled place, but this nature is the darkness it rejects!

Topics Covered: The awareness of one's existence is an unqualified sense of "I"; Awareness is the presence in this moment; I am the vine, ye are the branch; We don't give ourselves life - we are sustained; A school is a hatchery; The moment your attention doesn't belong to you it belongs to the world; GF described a mystical experience while meditating; When the dream ends, the dreamer is gone...

God, the Divine, does not hold back the answers for which our hearts seek; it is we who hold onto ourselves and then wonder over His silence.

The meditative life is the natural outcome of having seen the inherent limitation in thinking about yourself.

Without the work it takes to actualize them, spiritual realizations are as useless as a plow without a horse to harness its power.

We are always measuring ourselves in an attempt to confirm to ourselves that our lives have value. It is a fact that no creation is more or less valuable than anything else that is created. Is the tree more valuable than the ground from out of which it grows? No, in fact it is impossible to separate the tree from the ground. In one respect, all things are created equal, which means that all th...

Classroom Talk: 1/16/2019 - The priceless Gift of Life can't be freely received -- as it is forever being freely offered -- as long as we meet it with any demands upon it.

Interview with Brenda Michaels and Rob Spears of "Conscious Talk Radio" on 8/6/09. Topics explored in this dialogue: Why space, quietude, and peace of mind are missing from our lives; We're intended to always be in relationship with the "presence moment"; Why making an essential shift in the way we see ourselves and our lives is necessary...

There is a spiritual idea that appears in the New Testament which states, "Ask and ye shall receive. Knock and the door will be opened to you." It is our mistaken belief this idea is saying that all of our desires will be fulfilled simply by asking God, and that our "order" should be filled to our exact specifications as quickly as possible. Most of us have to learn the hard way about what it...

Topics covered: The degree to which you see the truth of yourself is the degree to which you will be a free human being; It is in the revelation of your limitations that you are set free from identification with those limitations; Only human beings, no other creature, can decide for themselves what they give their attention to; It is impossible to see that Life is always changing until we agree to let Life change us as well...

The quiet awareness of true stillness tells an untold story of a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Within us lives a timeless Self that cannot forget what is right, bright, and true any more than the sun has to try to remember to shine each day.