Any action we may take that's created by resistance within us to something unwanted in our life ensures only the continuation of a nature so asleep to itself that it can't see the difference between always trying to escape a prison, and not entering into one in the first place.

Trying to change, or otherwise control the unexpected appearance of some unwanted moment -- whose anticipated outcome you negatively imagine must be avoided at all costs -- actually helps create the unwanted conditionthat you had feared was coming!...

Classroom Talk: 10/19/2003 - For those with ears to hear -- whose hearts are set upon discovering the Truth: there are some things that you cannot learn about the nature of light while the sun is shining.

A man is walking through his office when his boss walks by and gives him a blank look. The thought pops into the man's mind that his boss is criticizing him or doesn't like him. Now, as he starts to fear this idea -- a negative picture produced by his imagination -- his mind focuses its attention on this disturbing image. And the more he attends to this dark dream, the further into its labyrin...

Topics Covered: The wave is a momentary expression of something much greater; We would not be able to experience movement without the presence of stillness through which it moves; Movement and stillness are not apart from each other, they are a unity; Seeing is coming into a relationship with a being within which everything already awaits; Identification is blindness...

The next time (and every time) you catch some negative thought or feeling that says, "I am anxious," "I am scared," "I am mad," or "I am in so much pain" -- the first thing to do is to come wide awake to yourself. By taking the following inner action, you can deliberately snap yourself out of that dark dream that is trying to weave itself into your identity. Rather than allowing yourself to...

Seeing what is holy in life is only as possible as we are willing to be whole.

Truth can only lift us as high as we are willing to let go of those parts of us that want to drag us down.

Everything that happens to us does so for the one purpose of revealing to us something of our present nature.

It seems natural to fear moments we don't want, to avoid any knock at the door of some untimely event. But it's not these moments themselves that we are afraid of: what we fear is our reaction to them, so that we can't see that this experience we don't want... is actually the pain of a negative reaction as it unfolds within us.

The two great commandments -- that we should love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love our neighbor as ourselves -- are the necessary germinating forces that ultimately give flower to the potential for a human soul to not just reflect what the Divine has made, but to actually participate in the process.

Compared to the wealth of true self-knowledge, worldly riches amount to little more than 'chump change.'...