Thinking, or hoping, that any destination we have in mind is going to be superior to where we're presently standing, is exactly why we're still standing in that same place where we have to hope that some tomorrow will be better. Before we can change our destination and arrive in that higher world we want, before we can ever start out in that new direction that leads to liberation, we must wak...

I like my job. It's challenging... but I don't get the inspirations from within (as I used to) to work harder for upgrading my knowledge. Instead, I feel drawn to my old addictions... which finally drain all my mental energy, leaving me regretting. How can I give a full stop to my addictions and get inside inspiration to become disciplined in my work. I know I am capable of many things, but du...

Learn to see the deception in any assumption that wants you to believe that there is no higher alternative to your suffering than to either run from it or simply endure it.

Classroom Talk: 6/27/2003 - The habitual assumption that life's answer to our request to realize a New Life is going to be "No," effectively ensures that our wish will not be granted! Any part of our being that unhappily assumes something negative will happen to us doesn't just see life as a dark and regret-filled place, but this nature is the darkness it rejects!

Classroom Talk: 6/27/2003 - The habitual assumption that life's answer to our request to realize a New Life is going to be "No," effectively ensures that our wish will not be granted! Any part of our being that unhappily assumes something negative will happen to us doesn't just see life as a dark and regret-filled place, but this nature is the darkness it rejects!

Any wave of resentment, anxiety, or fear that comes to wash you away is nothing more than a kind of psychic residue left over from who you once were.

Freedom from regret, hate, anxiety, and rage -- and making useless excuses for being compromised by these negative states -- begins as we stand in the light of this rescuing realization: unwanted moments, whatever their nature, do not cause the pain we find in them; rather, they serve to reveal a level of our consciousness already in pain, and looking for something to blame for it.

I have a problem that I just can't seem to shake: I can't seem to be faithful. I know it's wrong, but I just don't learn my lesson no matter how many times others, including myself, have been hurt. I'm so full of regret. I'm lost, disenfranchised, and have only hurt others and drawn them away from the light as well. I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing on this earth but know for certain...

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...

Classroom Talk: 11/30/2025 - If you find yourself harboring resentment -- filled with angry thoughts or painful regrets -- having surrendered to the suffering induced by your own negative considerations... be warned: in the darkness of that nature is where affliction hides; it abides there, breeding the conflict it has with the natural tides of life, waiting to consume those who consent to enter the hell wherein it dwells.

We are not meant to be the slave of any negative thought or feeling, nor are we intended to live under the limitations inherent in these darkened states. Our true role is to be the sovereign governor of our interior lives and all that this spiritual estate implies. It is our spiritual right to decide what kind of thoughts and feelings are permitted to roam through our consciousness and to rule...

Student Talks: 2/24/2023 - Key Lesson: My most contented hours are those filled with emptiness; and I regret -- as comes their appointed time -- having to fill these precious moments with what is little more than the mandatory, but mostly empty business of this world: attending to all of the virtually endless forms that are, at best, shadows of the real... at worst, vanities.