The problem: we hear, but we don't listen; we see, but we don't sense; we feel, but we aren't touched. The more clearly we understand the true nature of this interior imperfection, the more it becomes clear to us... where we must conduct our search for the missing half of our life.

Student Talks: 2/7/2020 - Key Lesson: We cannot run away from what we don’t want to see in ourselves, any more than a mirror can escape whatever is reflected in it. And yet, to see the truth of this fact (about our present level of consciousness) is the same as transcending it, along with its pain.

Trying to escape the painful effects of spiritual ignorance is like hoping to lose your shadow by running away from the sun.

Come awake in those moments when something in you is resisting life and watch how your mind prompts you to do something in order to restore balance to your world. Remain with this nature and witness how it tempts you to save yourself yet again, and then don't do its bidding.

Real abundance has very little to do with being able to give ourselves whatever we want, but rather with being free of the part of us that's forever wanting something better and new in order to feel new and better about itself.

Discover the unseen relationship between always being in a rush... and how important it makes you feel to always be going somewhere in a hurry... and you've made first contact with the power you need to slow down and take command of your own life.

If you move before you're aware of the level of self that's moving you, then your movements belong to a nature unmoved by whatever pain it causes you by its choices.

The key to the kingdom of heaven is never farther away from us than what each present moment reveals to us; for in truth "purity of heart" is inseparable from our willingness to see that things are the way they are because of the way we are.

A stone set into motion, rolling down a hill, goes only where gravity and accident allow. The same law holds true for any sense of "self" set off by a mechanical reaction; momentum carries it along until it crashes into someone or something that it then blames for being in the way.

Since you would never willingly allow someone else to denigrate your name -- or otherwise call you something ugly -- then why do you accept within you the painful presence of some dark unseen character that likes to do the same?...

We are never closer to realizing the next level of our own higher possibilities than when, by the light of a new awareness we see some old darkness within us, and then agree that we can no longer be that which we have been.

Allowing the rushed state of another person to push you into an anxious state of mind is like letting the horse you're about to ride convince you to wear the saddle!...