Classroom Talk: 7/30/2003 - Until we realize the impossibility of finding permanent happiness in impermanent thoughts and feelings, the only thing that will ever change about our lives are those things that we sit and wish hadn't changed.

Classroom Talk: 2/9/2003 - No one succeeds in Life who is driven through it, because unless you are at the wheel of your own thoughts and feelings, they are incapable of reaching a natural stop. Crashing into Life is not what it means to rest.

Without you lending them an "ear," the voices running through your head would be no harder for you to bear than is a breeze for the branches of a tree through which they pass without being hindered.

Every single spider web that has ever existed has been an absolutely unique web. Every time a wind passes through a spider web there is a song that is being played, and because each web is unique, each song is a true original. Of course, you can't hear the song with your physical ears, but with your spiritual "ears and eyes", you know that a song is being played. Every human being is intended...

Classroom Talk: 5/14/2003 - Real wisdom begins with growing weary of seeing how your best answers for how to live always leave you with a heartache.

Topics covered: Wherever anything is, according to its nature and what that relationship is, it is always exactly where it needs to be to receive exactly what it needs to receive; We want to be free because it’s too painful to be where we are. Our suffering proves to us that we don’t want to suffer; We are always exactly where we need to be in order to fulfill the purpose we have been placed here for; What we are tempted by in all instances, with no exception...

Everyone wonders whether or not there is one great secret for truly successful living. There is. And it is not a secret. It has been quietly, steadily telling itself right in front of us all along. We just couldn't hear it over the clatter and chatter of our own secret demands. Listen quietly for a moment: everything can change right now. Learning to hear this supreme secret is no more difficult than choosing whether to swim against a current or to let it carry you safely...

Topics covered:  The divided consciousness asks a question about its pain, and then immediately answers its own question; When the mind asks a question, you think you have to answer it; It is possible by the grace of God to come to the end of every last question you have. The question creates the illusion of a self that is stuck.

Classroom Talk: 8/20/2003 - Patient persistence in our labors, coupled with persistent patience through-out each one: these two powers serve not only to perfect the task at hand, but also work in harmony to perfect the hand that undertakes the task.