What we must learn to see -- whenever we start racing around to resolve some problem that we can't stop thinking about -- is that the faster our mind wants us to run after the freedom it imagines eludes it, the more of a captive we become -- held fast in the web of our own conceptual confusion.

Classroom Talk: 10/23/2019 "Taking thought" as a way to look into, understand, and realize the infinite possibilities actualized in each and every moment of passing time...is like trying to measure the breadth and depth of the Milky Way by looking at it through a microscope.

Hoping that somehow your experience of life will change, even as you repeat the same actions day in and day out, is like hoping that your reflection in the mirror will change before you do!...

Student Talks: 10/9/2019 - Key Lesson: Every moment is a marriage made in heaven, so why are you still waiting outside the door?

How strange it is that we resent carrying on our backs the pointed opinion of others, when it is we who give this barbed thought its power to trouble us. Think not? Then let us ask: what possible suffering can there be in what another thinks of me, unless I am holding the same thought as he?...

Self-realization is the same as the conscious negation of any form of identification; (it is) inseparable from a higher awareness that reveals what no so-called "spiritual thinking" can see, let alone understand as true: no matter how pleasurable or painful, elevated or excruciating may be any conditional, temporary  sense of self... it is not who you are.

Picture a man who just heard that one of his closest friends has betrayed him. How does he respond? What's his first answer to this ordeal? Anger that includes plans for revenge. Imagine a woman who suddenly realizes she's going to be late for an important appointment. There's no way to make it on time. How does she meet the pressure of this moment? What's her first answer to running out o...

Topics Covered: There is never a moment without disturbance; An unattended mind is a perpetual misery machine; The task isn't to not be disturbed, instead the task is to see the nature that doesn't want to be disturbed; We rarely suspect that psychological fear is a dream; It is awareness that we are after, not a result; There is a level of consciousness that is a world of imagination...