Topics covered: Relationships are the single greatest, unrecognized spiritual resource in the Universe; Waking up together means that you and I every other human being on this planet are in it together; The endless journey of love; Explanation of the story, Jerry McGuire; No one dumps on another human without the one doing the dumping being in pain; Shattering the pattern...

The rewards that we give ourselves are not real rewards. They're passing pleasures, momentary possessions, and fleeting feelings born out of an attempt to reduce or release oneself from a certain amount of tension. Because of this, the very act of rewarding ourselves is always incomplete and actually ties us to a certain unseen pattern of avoiding situations when they get "too hard." When you...

Someone with all the knowledge in the world, but who can't understand the need to sacrifice his selfish little "self" for the sake of a greater kindness, is no different than a donkey with a whole library strapped to its back.

The meditative life is the natural outcome of having seen the inherent limitation in thinking about yourself.

One of our deepest spiritual longings is to be able to face, without fear, whatever trouble comes our way because the strength we need to do so is already a part of who we are.

As long as we fear being what we are, nothing can change for us - - because whatever we deny is true about ourselves ensures it will remain just so.

The meditative life is the natural outcome of having seen the inherent limitation in thinking about yourself.

Classroom Talk: 12/10/2004 - When, before our inner eyes, we always have someplace better to be, or that feeling we must make something more of ourselves, we miss seeing two great truths: First, all imagined destinations are dreams whose promised fulfillment fades the nearer we draw to them... and secondly, that where and who we are in each moment is a field of possibilities whose riches are not only immediate, but everlasting.

Topics covered: No one who is looking for power in this world has power; Believing we are only as valuable as others agree we are is the recipe for fear; We have all assumed a false identity; We're learning about what it means to 'see'; Resistance can't learn; The more we resist something, the more we are immersing ourselves into the very thing that we say we don't want; Anything my mind is pu...

The only sure way to drop a problem is to never pick it up in the first place.

We must learn to wish for whatever life brings us, for there is no other way to earn the kind of unshakable gratitude that lets us live with grace.