Persistence -- without our awareness of the parts of us that steadily insist there’s no further we can go -- is a recipe for frustration; this painful sense of self slowly morphs from simple despair into an unholy cynicism that...
There is one basic key to genuine confidence: It's knowing that whatever happens to you, you can handle it with ease. With that kind of inner certainty, you are always the master of any moment. When you are the master of every moment, you can take whatever life throws at you and turn it into a golden opportunity that awakens new powers within yourself -- new inner strength that you never had...
The notion of a personal God is partly due to the need of the divided mind to be consoled by what it imagines is capable of completing it...which, by the way, can never be accomplished. No opposite can complete itself. So...(Religious) wars became the substitute for this imagined salvation, as better to hate someone else than to see the love one has imagined is powerless to deliver one from fe...
GF: Welcome everyone and Happy Holidays to you. I am sure that it is safe to say that worldwide, over the last few days, billions of people have made New Years resolutions. Perhaps you are one of these individuals who long to take control of their destiny: to be more kind, less lazy, better disciplined, or not be as selfish and self-centered. But I would assert that every year, even as the t...
I have and hold the hope of being able to know I am walking into the kitchen, or down a country road, awake and present to myself...
All kingdoms, along with their creations -- from the starry universe, down to the smallest of all realms -- are connected. They are inseparable, just as is the ocean from its currents and the waves they create...
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Classroom Talk: 01/18/2026 - Most of us live an accidental life...where our actual condition is constantly covered up by the convenience of being able to regret whatever we look back on as the source of our pain. But let’s be clear. Our list of painful regrets is not due to a cruel world, bad timing, or unfortunate events that got the better of us; no, the fault lies elsewhere, much closer to home: not only are we blind to the legion of unconscious parts at large in the dark of us, but we are yet to see the other half of this same truth: these same parts never stop working to ensure that we never stop wrestling with the regrets they keep resurrecting within us. To what end, this painful plot? That we never become conscious of the relationship between a life we regret, and our identification with a lower level of consciousness that ensures its continuation.
Do you ever feel like something is holding you back from saying what you want, doing what you want -- from just being yourself? Are you tired of feeling as though your highest aspirations have been tucked away into a little box, when you know that your heart and mind are meant to soar? If so, then you're right where you need to be to break free of everything that's holding you back...
Most people don't believe what you are about to learn, but that doesn't alter the truth of it. There is an invisible barrier that stands in the way of our happiness. The evidence is all around us. Only the few are willing to see it. And these people succeed where most others fail. What is it that stands in the way between us and the kind of success we've always dreamed of?...
Our attention is precious. Our attention may be the most important thing that we own, and almost none of us own any of our own attention. Anybody can take it. A phone call can take it. The news can take it. Look in the mirror and it can be stolen. I'm looking in the mirror and I don't look anything like I'm supposed to look, and if I look in the mirror and I don't see what I like, where does my attention go?
What's the first thing we see when we hear news that runs counter to what we want? The evidence suggests we don't really "see" anything at all; instead, our attention is seized, absorbed by a familiar negative reaction whose only wish is that the unwanted moment just go away. This resistance acts within and upon our consciousness as a "blinding" and binding force, so all we can "see" is our own negativity over what we wish wasn't...
Why can’t we forgive people? Why do we remain chained to that pain? It’s because “I want to know why you did what you did,” and so I keep revisiting the offense in my mind...