Classroom Talk: 8/13/2003 - The most difficult thing in the world is to be one person.

Classroom Talk: 12/31/2003 - Within each of us dwells all that it is possible for us to be. Why look any farther?

In this life we are only given two things that are purely our own to use: attention and time. Sadly, most of us squander our gifts of time and attention. Rather than learning to be in command of our attention, which is the same as using our time for its highest purpose -- the realization of our immortal Self -- we hand it over to almost anything that floats by in the river of time. Either we...

Classroom Talk: 5/23/2003 - Wherever it may be that we are in such a rush to arrive, we're sure to find it a more enjoyable place if only we would dare to get there relaxed!

Arrogance, fear, in fact all dark negative states only rule and stain our lives as they do because of how distanced we've become from the immense and divine mystery of our own True Nature.

Fear and frustration are the negative effects of meeting unwanted moments from an unconscious nature whose dark reaction concludes its painful condition is intransient. Love and patience are positive expressions of an awakening nature that can see that all...

For those with "eyes to see and ears to hear": any moment we embrace fully -- leaving it untouched by thought, even as we give to it our full attention -- represents Christ in the "manger" and creates an "immaculate" conception.

The reason we resist virtually all endings in our life -- wherein we feel as though something has been wrongfully taken away from us -- is because these same unwanted moments leave us feeling terribly empty inside ourselves. In truth, it is this overwhelming sense of emptiness that we detest, and not the changing condition itself that we so habitually protest. So when things naturally come t...

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.

There is a higher relationship that has nothing to do with anything personal at all. It is the realization of the existence of strength, of majestic beauty, of power... and that realization is inseparable from the consciousness in which it appears. And that consciousness isn't personal. It belongs to what is Divine in a human being and it is a gift of the Divine.

There are times when there's more to be gained from losing a fight, than there is in winning it. Show me someone who only enters into battles he's sure can be won, and I will show you that person who has all but forsaken the possibility of ever knowing his own soul.

Part 1: The avoidance of any form of psychological pain -- no matter how cleverly construed, or thoroughly masked -- is not the same as freedom from its suffering. Part 2: Nothing is more empty of higher possibilities than a mind filled with resistance to the revelations of life.