The conditioning that consumes most of us is that we have failed in life if we don't make something of ourselves. The Truth is that we are here on earth for the purpose of allowing God's Life to make of us what It would have us be. Real success is knowing the difference between these two wills and choosing rightly.
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Classroom Talk: 8/11/2024 - Conscious persistence transforms unconscious resistance into Revelation.
Success and security are big ideas. But there are bigger ideas that stand behind them, powers that make such achievements possible to attain. These bigger ideas represent the brightest, most empowering forces in our universe: Peace, Wisdom, Kindness, and Freedom ... just to name a few.
Student Talks: 02/27/2026 - I will be with you until the end of time, but if you look for me in (passing) time, you will not find me there.
To be able to grow in heart and mind -- which is the true benchmark of a successful human being -- we must learn what it means to give all that we have to whatever it is that we may be doing in the moment: for only complete action on our part has the power to teach us completely.
Any human being who has to hold himself together is someone who is ready to fall apart. Trying to hold yourself together is a terrible way to go through life. Our task is to prove this to ourselves. The fears of falling apart can never be quieted by adding more pieces to your self, such as success or the hopes of success. With this approach to life, you wear out faster, because you now have ev...
If we're not getting what we want out of life, it's only because of one simple misunderstanding: Our unique purpose is not to succeed at any one thing, but to discover and live from a nature that is success itself. When we understand this, the world opens its doors to us. We're not meant to struggle to make events go the way our minds tell us they should. That's what leads to frustration...
You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.
Classroom Talk: 10/5/2003 - Once we experience for ourselves that the universe is actually set up for us to succeed in becoming Wise unto all things, we realize in that same moment that the very Ground of Reality is Compassionate, founded in Love. With this discovery fear in us is forever dissolved.
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Classroom Talk: 3/24/2024 - We are not being called to be more than we are, let alone to judge ourselves when we see we have missed the mark; rather, we are here to discover ALL that we have been given, and how - if we dare accept this unimaginable gift - we will see it multiplied a hundredfold.
No one succeeds in life who lives in fear. Fearlessness is first the will to proceed in spite of conditions, and then it becomes a consciousness fixed in us that is beyond conditions. Real success is a fearless state of being in a conscious relationship with an Intelligence that always achieves its ends in spite of changing conditions. The success that our present nature looks for is to try...