Classroom Talk: 6/20/2003 - In the long run, our attitude towards life's lessons -- and the direction our life takes in life -- are one and the same; show me someone who resists the Light of Life's correction in the course of his or her soul, and I will show you someone whose destiny is the darkness of total self-enclosure.
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Classroom Talk: 7/3/2022 - Part 1: Unattended thoughts attract unwanted relationships. Part 2: Identifying with any painful reaction is a form of negative fascination; it is an inverse form of Narcissism where we feel drawn to "stare" at -- to dwell on -- whatever may be that dark thought or feeling we're so sure we don't want to see. Stranger still, the more we resist the...
Part 1 Only complete action on our part has the power to teach us, completely, those lessons that real Life would have us learn. Part 2 Regardless of circumstance, our first action must be to give our complete attention to all that we are being given to see, and to be... accordingly. This is how we realize the Good: the all-at-once justice and mercy that lay hidden in every mome...
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Classroom Talk: 5/1/2024 - Whether a captive of a moment -- or changed, and completed by it -- all depends on what we attend to in that same moment.
The worst thing about walking through life in your sleep is that being awakened actually feels like something bad just happened to you!...
Classroom Talk: 5/7/2004 - When we rush through anything, we miss seeing everything.
Classroom Talk: 5/7/2004 - When we rush through anything, we miss seeing everything.
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Classroom Talk: 10/22/2023 - Any time the mind makes a "package" out of some unwanted moment -- wrapping its reaction (to it) in familiar troubled thoughts, and negative feelings -- it does so at the cost of exchanging a priceless gift it's been given... in favor of giving itself another painful experience (of itself) that it doesn't know it's created for itself!
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Classroom Talk: 3/24/2023 - Part 1: Faith is a bridge between levels of self; it is an invisible, but real connection between who we have been, and the invitation to realize all that we are created to be. Part 2: Our level of understanding is no better or worse to us than is our ability to attend to what we know is Right, True, and Good.