When any lie is passed down from one generation to the next, it not only becomes what is believed as being true but, as such, becomes the unsuspected seed of fear, mistrust, doubt, and the pain of unseen self-conflict...

The cost of “knowing” real beauty -- of realizing all that is timelessly noble and true -- is to be the emptiness into which it pours, and from out of which it will pour again.

Fear of any weakness is a part of the weakness feared...

The reason why the search for the “Truth” of oneself is called “pathless”... is because it’s not taken in steps, let alone in any known direction; rather, the “journey” to authentic self-liberation is found...

Because we are literally defined by our desires, we are confined to an unseen house of pain that, in turn, has transformed our fertile planet into a prison filled with frustrated inmates...

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...

We are so occupied trying to fill our lives with what we want that we can't see how all that we need is being given to us freely every moment of the day...

A tree has many leaves, and -- in one way or another -- the wind touches all of them; some shake, some quiver, some hardly move at all...

Spiritually speaking, we have but one problem: we are unable to see that the source of our conflict with life...

Topics covered: Human beings don't understand what or who they are, and, for having failed to understand the purpose of their existence, they have created one for themselves; What is the main misunderstanding about the purpose of existence? That I am owed a living; We are takers - I want, I will, I'll do, I'll get - all of which must come after "I'll be."

Topics covered: Real existence is being rooted in an awareness that doesn't pursue anything because it is already a part of everything; There is no addiction that doesn't begin with a sense of self that feels incomplete; In order to win the approval of others, we have to sell ourselves. Our sense of self is dependent upon exterior conditions; There is no fear without the fear of disappearing, without the fear of losing myself...

Topic: The End of the Fear of Everything (Classroom Talk 9/18/24)