Topics covered: The essential laws of peace, power, and perfect living; We've lost touch with our "true" nature; We know ourselves as a kind of an echo; Life is not trying to take something from me when it appears to go south; Conditions in life reveal to me a level of consciousness in myself; We resist our own imagined states; I judge because I feel superior to what I'm judging; A difficult m...

Remastered Classic Talk: 01/20/16 - The psychological weight of any pressing moment is the same as whatever level of importance is assigned to it by an unconscious part of us; this lower level of self looks for any situation where it can add "a cubit to its stature" by first imagining some unmanageable burden into existence so that then... it can feel itself struggling to carry its own impossible load!

Student Talks: 12/22/2023 - Key Lesson: Every once in a while, we have the great fortune of perceiving a moment of such astonishing beauty, or harmony, that we all but lose ourselves within it. But what is far more amazing than any such vision is this breathtaking fact: were it not for our mysterious capacity to perfectly reflect that moment -- to be one with it in heart, mind, and soul -- there would be no beauty or harmony to behold.

Topics covered: There is a deeper life to experience if we can be in the presence of that life; If the Kingdom of Heaven is within, then where in the world are you going?; The appearance of resistance is telling us something about ourselves; In reality there is nothing missing in your life because there is no puzzle to solve. To understand that there is no puzzle to solve is enlightenment...

Topics covered: Something calls to you all the time to establish and strengthen a relationship with another order of consciousness. This communication sends message after message in order to bridge the worlds within you; When you hear something true that stirs you, do not let it pass by without attempting to draw closer to it; Until you see the way you are without hiding from the revelation, you will remain as you are.

Classroom Talk: 6/5/2002 - Within us we may incubate, A love or hate, And accordingly we realize, Our chosen fate.

People only move as frustratingly slow as we wish to get somewhere fast.

The sleeping mind -- passive to itself -- is like an unattended landing strip in a vacant airport into which can fly anything seeking a temporary place to inhabit and possess.

The door to the limitless life opens for us only as wide as we are willing to love being made aware of our present limitations.

Classroom Talk: 3/23/2003 - We do not cease to exist when, having surrendered ourselves to the star-lit depth of a dark night sky, all thought subsides; or when for the invisible touch of an unsought love our heart is filled with a gentle stillness; rather it is only within moments such as these -- when we are enabled to forget about ourselves -- that it may be said we really live!

Topics covered: The intimate enemy is a consciousness that is asleep to itself but does not know it; As long as we have good reasons for why we suffer, we are never going to transcend painful patterns; Something in us believes that there are good reasons to suffer over things that we have no control over; Sufi story: "I lost my donkey, but at least I was not riding it at the time." We are not meant to be saddled by negative thoughts and feelings...

One sure measure of spiritual growth is found in our developing awareness that each and every present moment of our lives is a special kind of spiritual looking glass.