Topics covered:  "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest." -- Ecclesiastes, Old Testament; Any sort of development requires a certain amount of voluntary suffering. The path of development requires that you meet limitations; We will go through great pains to make sure that we get what we want.

Topics covered: "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other' doesn’t make any sense. The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds...

Who can hope to be at ease who believes he must build a house of straw in a windstorm? Only the one who realizes that not only has a dwelling place already been provided for him, but that it was constructed before, the winds of change came into being, can know True Peace.

What possible Good is there in seeking Love or Peace in a time or place to come when everything along the way that thwarts your dream causes some kind of resentment or is seen as yet another disturbance to avoid!...

Crying out in any fashion that you cannot seem to find some peace of mind -- even as you cultivate and embrace disturbing thoughts about your life or towards others -- makes about as much sense as someone who hangs out with known thieves while complaining that he keeps getting robbed!...

Topics covered: To say that these are unprecedented times is to forget the fact that human consciousness repeats itself over and over again, which means that the world has been in its current state many times before; Notice that whenever you are thinking about someone that bothers you, you are at war with that person; Whenever you struggle against the clock, in a rush to get somewhere and get things done, you are at war with time...

Because life can go either way -- regardless of how carefully one chooses at the crossroads of life -- the Wise person learns that only when neither way matters to his abiding sense of wholeness has he found the Way to that Peace his heart has always longed for.

Topics covered: You must learn to trust the love you have for Truth, as opposed to trusting the self that loves itself; Just because you can't yet do what you love, does not mean that love is not real; There is an intelligence that governs and sustains every creature that lives... at every level; How do we know that other people are wrong? How do we know that the moment should not be the way that it is? Because we live with an unseen knower...

The feel of fresh understanding, an infusion of light; the sweet flood of a new knowing pouring into and integrating one's soul, familiarizing it with its own forgotten wholeness and perfected peace. This is our hope in prayer: To become one with the Living Light whose dawning opens the doorway to the Divine.

A thief may steal from me my wallet, or even manage to acquire and abuse my name, but the only way he can rob me of my peace of mind is if that which he has stolen from my pocket has secret strings attached to my heart.

To see the beauty in mother nature is to know some of this beauty in yourself. To awaken and see the perfect order of life, its wholeness and goodness, is to receive title to this eternal truth and to be given a measure of its perfect peace.

Measure the degree of your irritability with whatever comes along to disturb your "peace" and you will see the extent to which you don't yet understand that Real Life cannot possibly interrupt itself!...