50% of our fear in life is born of suspecting just how impermanent everything is around us, and then trying to prove otherwise. The other 50% of our fear is born when our suspicions are proven true, in spite of all we do.

If you want to know your true and proper place in the great story of life, you must learn to read your own heart... For within it, line after line, is written all there is to know.

Topics covered:  There is no urgency in a natural creature. There is no rush in nature. Every movement in nature is in perfect harmony. Human beings are always in a state of urgency; No creature in nature is concerned about what it means to be productive. Nature's creatures are already productive because they are already a participant in the whole movement of creation; "Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment?" -- New Testament

Preparation, hard work, is part of perfecting whatever you’ve imagined you want to attain in this world. But there is a world beyond anything we can imagine; (it is) an intelligent presence, a “place” of powers and principles whose self-obliterating touch can no more be prepared for than can a mountain pine prepare for a lighting bolt...or a newly opened spring flower its first taste of the mo...

Part 1 Rushing is the pain of trying, in vain, to avoid the awareness of what we are being given in favor of trying to get on to what it is that we want! Part 2 Only the simultaneous awareness of "Yes and No" is capable of producing the sensitive energies needed to receive impressions from the objective world, to know an Intelligence that isn't divided into parts that act against each other.

Stand, like mountain, Bend, like reed. Surge, like fountain, Wait, like seed. Give, like sunshine, Melt, like snow. Live, like springtime . . . Come and go.

Denial

"Not wanting" what has happened to you is not only powerless to change what happened, but actually makes you a captive of the very condition you wish to escape.

Classroom Talk: 7/31/2002 - Part 1: When you can look a worry or anger in the eye and tell it, "There is nothing between us anymore," then you are well on your way to the birth of a new kind of freedom in you that nothing can oppose or ever take away from you! Part 2: Our problems, what amounts to our lives defined by these protracted burdens, become weightless the moment we cease to identify with them...

Topics covered: Desire promises to deliver us to a higher place but because it originates from a lower place it can't connect to what's higher; Choose presence over fantasy; You must learn to stay in one place (psychologically) long enough to study yourself; Change is not possible without revelation; No one can be reborn until they die; Nothing grows stronger without resistance; It's only when...

The way in which we pursue what we are drawn to in life begins with some form of identification. When we are inspired to investigate something, whatever it may be, the process begins with our minds constructing an image of the thing that it longs to explore. And in order to continue the exploration, the mind must keep that image in front of itself, and so it literally becomes identified and at...

We may reach the place to which we rush, but our consent to act from any anxious state ensures we remain the slave of those thoughts and feelings that push us and pull us at the same time.