How is it we don't see how much our life is spent worrying, and struggling to acquire whatever powers we imagine we must have in order to finally arrive at... a life free of worry and struggle?
It's crucial for us to understand that the thrust of our habitual thinking lives with its attention fixed, not on beginnings, but on the end of things. Don't we always wonder what our lives will be like tomorrow? Aren't we forever dreaming about how different things will be once we win this or achieve that? Don't we, in our mind's eye, perpetually walk towards a brighter moment to come, thinking about how good we'll feel once we're able to resolve some...
You’ve no doubt fought and won countless battles in life, yet repeatedly -- seemingly inescapably -- you continue to find yourself at war, not just with others but within yourself, as well. And so... I want to share seven of the most important lessons I’ve learned in my life...
One Love - One Life - One Journey: a 3-day spiritual tour-de-force! Come hear 3 soul-enriching talks, enjoy delicious foods for body and soul, and make new friends to Journey with along the Way.
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?
Why do I ever get frustrated with someone or something? Why am I frustrated with them? Because they're bringing up inside of me what I don't know what to do with, because they are making me aware of a pain that was part of my life before I sat down to have the pie with them -- that's why.
Where is the border between conscience and unconsciousness? The reason the world is beyond repair is because it is populated by a race of beings that now believe that they are conscious. They are not conscious; you are not conscious. The proof that you are not conscious is that you hurt one another, that's the proof of it. And that you hurt yourself, that's the proof of it. Every time you talk to yourself, every time you punish yourself...
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Classroom Talk: 05/04/2025 -Spiritually speaking, the Light of awareness is the universal solvent.
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Classroom Talk: 12/07/2025 - What you understand, you command; what you don’t understand commands you.
Student Talks: 05/9/2025 - Spiritually speaking, the Light of awareness is the universal solvent.
Student Talks: 12/12/2025 - What you understand, you command; what you don’t understand commands you.
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Classroom Talk: 9/07/2025 - All anxious resistance to what "might be" is the avoidance of what is.