The fear of stepping up to life, of coming right out and asking it for what we want, ensures that not only won't we win our heart's desire, but fairly well guarantees -- for our obedience to negative doubt -- that we will never realize the peace of a quiet mind that has seen how life itself wants to grant wishes that are True.

Classroom Talk: 7/6/2005 - There can be found, at times, a conditional comfort in the things we see with our eyes, but there is an indwelling and unconditional peace in the living Light through which all things may be seen.

To know, to perceive the great Truth that everything seen in life -- outside and inside of us -- has that which dwells both above and beneath it -- is to gain passage into a world whose Peace is unassailable: for what is there in the universe with the power to disturb that which is -- and that knows itself as being a part of the whole of God's Life?...

Topics covered: self-talk, thoughts, thought-life, chatter, machine-mind, meditation, stillness, quiet, inner peace...

Part I: External flaws and faults are nothing more than visible reflections of our own secret unfulfilled internal needs, so that before any such faults can be healed, these needs must be met. Only God can visit and mend the unseen splits lying buried in the soul. Part II: We must learn what it means to return to the interior realm of ourselves, something we each have the power to do an...

Classroom Talk: 5/5/2021 - Peace of mind is not some "place" we can rush to; fulness of heart is not a possession to be claimed. We can only realize that these Divine gifts – of a quiet mind and overflowing heart – have already been given to us: an interior discovery which may prove to be the most difficult thing we will ever agree to do in this life.

Topics covered: The Seeker, The Search, The Sacred, change the world, world peace...

If we ever hope to know the nature of true spiritual peace, we must do the best we can to meet each moment -- as fully as possible -- from the whole of ourselves, and then witness the results... in silence. And, whether or not we hit the mark -- still strive to be patient and kind to others, as well as with ourselves. Nothing more, nothing less; keep it simple. So that, unlikely as it may seem - in this way we are awakened to a great paradox...

Topics Covered: Even with all of our rushing and doing and struggling, nothing real changes; There is always a feeling in a divided consciousness that there is a distance that must be spanned before it can be at ease; In reality there is no distance between you and the "I Am" that always is, between you and peace, between you and what is perfect; A part of us creates the idea that...

Interview with Brenda Michaels and Rob Spears of "Conscious Talk Radio" on 8/6/09. Topics explored in this dialogue: Why space, quietude, and peace of mind are missing from our lives; We're intended to always be in relationship with the "presence moment"; Why making an essential shift in the way we see ourselves and our lives is necessary...

Until we learn the one Great Lesson that what we want from life must play a secondary role to what Life asks of us -- which is to grow in the timeless qualities of selflessness such as self-sacrifice, kindness, and love -- then we will remain unable to share in the abiding sense of peace and freedom that comes to us only as we realize the true purpose of our being.

Classroom Talk: 6/14/2002 - Hoping that we can come upon the Peace of a quiet mind and Fullness of a contented heart without working to become conscious of the secret causes that steal in to disturb this interior wholeness, is like hoping to harvest sweet fruit from our very own orchard without first tasking ourselves to patiently plant its trees!