Compared to the wealth of true self-knowledge, worldly riches amount to little more than 'chump change.'...

Classroom Talk: 1/22/2020 - If our contentment - our joy in life - doesn't start somewhere deep and untouchable within us, as does the beauty of a rose begin before it flowers, then our happiness is "in and of this world": (it is) a creation of passing time that will - as must all things that live in time - wilt and wither away.

Part 1: It is impossible to hear the 'Voice of Heaven' -- to be in any level of communication with real conscience -- and to be talking to yourself at the same time. Part 2: In stillness, I see. In silence, I hear. Seeing and hearing in this way, I am instructed... And come to understand.

In our life, upon this earth, suffering is not an option - but what this suffering makes of us is our choice. We may either continue to resist our given pain, following the endless paths it produces paved with 10,000 empty promises--or--we may do the difficult inner work of discovering the secret purpose of our soul's sufferings and, for our efforts, come to be set Free of all self-induced fe...

Never forget that no real spiritual effort is ever made in vain, even when you're given to see -- as a result of your inner work -- some low estate into which you have fallen. At the same time, always remember: the same place into which the waters of a river empty themselves, their lowest abode is, in fact, one and the same as its original source... only in another order of time.

When it comes to experiencing an overall sense of peace, happiness, and abiding contentment, we are not created to be self-filling beings.

False wishes, like most empty prayers are usually born when times get rough and -- much as do cut flowers -- lose their fragrance as soon as the tempest passes. A true wish, like any real prayer may have its roots in difficult times but, once born in the human heart, it never dies; it lives on, shining new light and lending new meaning to every moment of life for the one...

When the soul cries out to Spirit to carry her to a New World beyond the boundaries of this earthly domain, she is calling for the Winds of Heaven to sweep down, fill her tattered, empty sails, and take her safely away...

Part I: Following a path of false purposes leads us to a life filled with empty promises whose imagined pleasures soon give way to real enough punishments. Part II: The pure clean waters of a stone-lined mountain stream are about as attractive to a mud hen as are beams of sunlight to a cave-dwelling bat. So it is with human beings, for it is where we dwell inwardly that tells the truth...

The essential emptiness of allowing the opposites to collapse is the same as the essential fullness of the opposites unified.

False wishes, like most empty prayers are usually born when times get rough and -- much as do cut flowers -- lose their fragrance as soon as the tempest passes. A true wish, like any real prayer may have its roots in difficult times but, once born in the human heart, it never dies; it lives on, shining new light and lending new meaning to every moment of life for the one in whom its need has b...

Part 1 The only thing in us that longs to be flattered are unstable parts of us that not only love to be lied to, but that actively seek that kind of support through the careful cultivation of some appearance we put on in order to win it. Part 2 Too late does the fool who dines on flattery discover that not only has his wallet been emptied, but that he is being slowly, secretly, f...