Topics covered: Nothing that's talking to you about you is you; Discerning prayer to escape myself vs. wishing to be a doer of the Word; Anything you do to escape your condition increases your relationship to it; The mind that creates a problem can only meet it by trying to escape it; Love is the right way to pray towards God; God knows what you want, so why don't you let him give it to you; G...

It may feel as if it's true, but familiarity is not safety... Any more than we might believe that some unfortunate creature -- protected by the cage in which it is confined -- finds comfort in its captivity.

Never trust in any negative thought or feeling that would have you believe, "There's no way!" Always remember instead that Real Life is a secret and vital flux of possibilities rising up from the ground of what seems improbable, much as a spring flower manages to bloom in a once frozen field.

Topic: Here's Where to Find the Peace That Passes All Understanding (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 1/14/25)

Topic: The Power of Being Still (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 1/8/25)

Negative imagination is the preferred intoxicant of an unconscious nature...

By this time next month I will not have enough money to pay my rent, car insurance or to even buy food. Winter is coming. I have read The Secret of Letting Go. I'm doing my best to follow that advice, to let go of fear, but my reality right now is that in this physical world I am not being taken care of. There are no jobs in my hometown. I've applied everywhere. I have no money to move. So w...

What we are given to see as true (about ourselves) is not the judgment of ourselves, but a revelation intended to release us...

Nothing is emptier of its rightful, highest possibility than a mind filled with resistance to revelation... as all revelation is, by nature, self-revelation.

Negative reactions create chains. All chains are made by machines. To see that you are not a machine instantly releases you from becoming identified with any painful chain reaction.

If you want a “misery-backed” guarantee that whatever troubles you about someone else will get worse... Just be sure and start complaining to him or her about it!

Our mind is at last our own only when we can give it fully to the moment at hand, regardless of what life seems to hand us in that moment.