If the sky were empty, birds couldn't fly through it. The only way to know the fullness of the nothingness you fear is to launch yourself into it. Do this enough times, and soon you will start to feel -- and know -- the presence of a timeless stillness that binds all things together. And though it touches nothing, and nothing touches it, still it connects all that moves through it. In this...

Classroom Talk: 12/13/2020 - The Divine journey begins with our gradual awakening to the timeless depth and breadth of our own sleeping consciousness. All that we are, and hope to be already resides therein... waiting to reveal its Light to whoever will dare make the leap into the seeming darkness of its perfect emptiness...

There is only one path that leads to a relationship with what is holy, and therefore perfectly complete... And that is to see -- without flinching, and finally without regret -- that all of the (seemingly attractive) paths through this life always end right where they began: in a too-familiar, but terrible, sense of emptiness.

Without something to oppose it, what is any painful negative reaction... other than a temporary wind looking for a sail, a conflict passing through an unconscious mind...

As I get older, I find it harder to take full pleasure in life's joyful, renewing experiences. There always seems to be a sense of emptiness that soon follows. Is there such a thing on this earth as real, lasting renewal? I have been able to put aside my habitual self-involvement more and more frequently, yet I'm actually beginning to worry about what life will be like without my mind's usual...

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 faith to sweep down, fill her tattered and empty sails, and take her safely away. The wait for these winds is never too long for any soul who is both patient and persistent in purpose. And when -- as it must come to pass upon any such journey home -- dark...

Meditation Talk: 9/27/2019 - The realization of a need for the Divine in our life is the beginning of Its supernal entrance into us; and, to be clear, this touch is always His initiating action. In other words: what we take as being our need to know His Life is really His invitation to do so... announcing itself as (an) emptiness in the heart that...

Topics Covered: The opposites are actually a cicle; "Will" cannot be separated from "condition" in sleeping human beings; There is a direct relationship between purity, clarity, humility, and the Kingdom of Heaven; Poverty is my greatest wealth; We have a gluttonous nature that thrives on feeding on negativity; Real emptiness is within a world that's completely full; Humans have being; Becomin...

Classroom Talk: 12/4/2019 Most of us are filled with wants that change nothing about who we are, let alone answer the emptiness inside. If we must ask for something, let it be for greater Wisdom; for possessions and powers come and go... but Wisdom is Now, and forever.

Classroom Talk: 9/25/2024 - Here's why it's impossible to (try and) protect ourselves from the fear of uncertainty or disappointment and - at the same time - hope to deepen our relationship with the Divine: self-realization is (our) atonement with the ceaseless revelation that emptiness and fullness are to one another...as are the four seasons that seemingly turn from one into the other.

Topics covered: The unconscious mind tries to regain balance whenenver it registers a disturbance that interferes with its agenda; The distractions we turn to in order to escape the feeling of emptiness are created by the consciousness that must fill itself in order to know itself; Humanity's imagined heaven is the invention of a consciousness that is in hell; If you are still anxious and afraid...

Here’s why it’s impossible to (try and) protect ourselves from the fear of uncertainty or disappointment and -- at the same time -- hope to deepen our relationship with the Divine...