Our greatest strength lies in our ability to realize that whatever may be the nature of some immediate worry or fear, it can be proven false... that is, providing we are willing to prove it so by walking into and through it, and to test this truth time and time again.

If all of creation didn’t share something in common, something invisible... yet in some ways more real than the objects that reveal and manifest that relationship... Then how could the death of a tree bring life to the forest, or the storm-tossed waves that lash the sea cliffs serve to create and sustain the infinite creatures that cling to those rocks?

Classroom Talk: 01/19/2025 - Awakening is the (graduated) process of negating all forms of identification; (it is) the realization that no matter how real the feel of any familiar sense of self - for its pleasure, or pain - nevertheless: no sensation does a "self" make, any more than a wave on the sea creates the sea from out of which it rises, and must return.

Classroom Talk: 2/14/2021 - Much as a jeweler uses his grinding wheel to remove any rough edges remaining on an otherwise perfect gem, so all of our relationships are designed to help "polish" one another's heart... that they might more perfectly reflect a higher order of Love whose power helps heal all involved.

If all of creation didn't share something in common, something invisible... yet in some ways more real than the objects that reveal and manifest that relationship... then how could the death of a tree bring life to the forest...

The true purpose of a compass is not to tell you where you are; its power is to provide you with an accurate guide, assuring that you don't lose your way. The same holds true when it comes to any truthful principle you may learn; its purpose is to provide a light by which to see the possibility of what you may yet be, and not to be used as a lash to punish yourself over what you are not.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of November 25, 2013. Part 1: There is an unseen, unheard constant communication, a communion that exists between -- and within -- all things created, throughout all of the cosmos. Part 2: The reason that (spiritual) fulfillment favors those who persist (in its pursuit) is because nothing comes into creation that isn't the offspring of a relationship res...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of May 8, 2017. If nothing else, always strive to remember this: the greatest part of life -- its one and only True Full Expression -- will never be found in what the mind can imagine, what the eyes strain to see, let alone in what the hands hope to hold.

Student Talks: 5/15/2020 - Key Lesson: There are many times when obstacles in our way prove more valuable than open roads...

Classroom Talk: 11/02/2025 -Here is a great spiritual paradox: none can hope to know the truth of their Divine Individuality until they have realized their all-inclusive similarity with everyone they meet.

Until our wish is to be present and responsive to the real needs of friends, family, and even strangers -- more than we want to be seen as important in their eyes -- we serve no one... not even ourselves.

When someone says something that is unkind or cruel, it's because they have perceived something in you that has produced a reaction in them. They are helpless to act otherwise, which stirs a similar reaction and helplessness within you as well. If you will meet those moments with the wish to see your own unconscious reaction instead of blame the other person for theirs, a new possibility arises.