The hidden nature of almost all that we do on a collective basis is the direct, but unseen, effect of this one great unconscious desire: to search out what we believe will complete us, drawing us to seek "greener pastures" by the deft touch of its magnetic hand, but never allowing us to rest...

Continuing to look for something new outside of yourself is like rearranging the clothes in your closet and, after you're done, going back through it hoping to find the experience of some unexpected joy....

GF: Welcome to our chat tonight. These are difficult times, at best. So before we begin I want to give you some new ideas to work with that are vital for any of us who would do our part to ensure peace on earth. There is one essential reason why there is war on this earth, and why this conflict continues as it has down through the ages. The answer may surprise you. We do not understand our ow...

It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are "marked" with a certain strange feature: and that is...we want to change. Perhaps you're thinking: "What's so strange about that?" After all, who amongst us isn't familiar with this ever-present longing (of ours)? Granted, taken by itself, this desire doesn't seem so strange; that is, until we realize the obvious: we a...

Topics covered: levels, levels of consciousness, divided mind, satisfaction, dissatisfaction, ambition, ambitious, emptiness, disappointment, karma, peace, quiet mind...

Topics covered: Learning to see oneself is a journey; Having a desire interferes with observation; The desire to be free establishes limitation; What you want instead is to become interested in what isn't freedom; The more clear something is the more efficient it is; Self-observation liberates you from the illusion that you can do; A good seed in a human is one within whom personality is well-...

Any pleasure that a person takes from this life that does not simultaneously include a conscious sense of gratitude for that pleasure being received is always an incomplete pleasure. Incomplete pleasures and insatiable desires are the opposing yet complementary two wings of the thorn birds that, one moment lift the soul above the earth, and the next, drop it to dash it against the ground.

Topics covered: We never have a plan, a desire, or an expectation that does not have a momentum that comes along with it; You can learn from everything that you encounter in life, instead of becoming the captive of resistance to what you meet. Instead of being used by fear, you can use fear to free you; You don't know that you walk around with a desire to be left alone until someone or something bothers you...

Classroom Talk: 11/13/2024 - How desire always imagines a solution to whatever our painful problem may be, often seeming to arrive at what feels like the perfect answer. But, desire itself is imperfect, because it is the incomplete work of an incomplete nature... trying to perfect itself as it imagines it must in order to be free. And yet, as paradoxical as it may seem, it is only through our awareness of imperfection that the light of the Divine reveals...

As the sleeping mind -- driven on as it is by unconscious desires -- awakens to see that the only thing thought can do is make circles, it slowly stops seeking...

Topics Covered: Any idea about what it means to be whole is a frature in our consciousness; Every moment is an "assistant coach" working with the Divine; Real learning is not through the intellect but through integration, realization and revelation; Anything that is passive does not want to be disturbed; Resistance is part of the revelation of the moment; Our experience cannot...

Truth is always new, ceaselessly original; and to realize its innocence, to share its inexhaustible spontaneity, you too must be original.