Everywhere we look, people are concerned with essentially one thing: getting what they want, when they want it, and as fast as possible. The fires that fuel their appetite for this envisioned success create so much smoke that they lose sight of the fact that all they reap for their insistent sowing are the cold ashes of regret raked out of broken relationships. If we are ever to realize the i...

There is no emptiness; there is no fullness. There is only their dance, in an endless turning...

After a loved one passed away, I began my spiritual quest. Soon after came an amazing and divine experience. In an instant every veil was lifted and I was given a gift; the ability to distinguish illusion from truth. I felt completely at peace and in a constant state of bliss. Fear was gone, and in its place was faith and knowing. All my "buttons" had disappeared -- conflict and anger seemed r...

The true answer to any problem we find ourselves in is not found in our thoughts about it, but rather in our willingness to allow new light to reveal its purpose.

Topics covered: What is a voice without an ear; All real work is for the salvation and reconciliation of human consciousness; We spend our time attempting to reconcile the unknown, but life is pure unknown; The meaning of the moment is inherent in it; Confidence is the echo of an imaginary self; We wrongly avoid endings and only pursue beginnings; The intention awakens the possibility of a new...

Classroom Talk: 1/12/2003 - The mastery of anything, including ourselves, begins with the faith that we are not here on earth to be perfected according to an image we hold of ourselves, but rather to allow Perfection to work its way upon us...So that only the awareness of something Greater than ourselves can draw us into a Greatness beyond ourselves, if we will it so.

Topics covered: Reports on the Attention Exercises; Setting an intention invites second force; Your essence is like a lightning rod for you to discover your chief features; Faith is of the heart but it begins with the intellect through reasoning; Struggling to employ directed attention to overcome zero attention is the most valuable type of work; You have to understand what it means to come to...

Topics covered: You give yourself to what you love; We are drawn to what is active in us; What it means to let go; Understanding can't be acted upon until there's something in you that's able to do it; Love is not in time; Thinking from the pain vs. toward the pain; Learn to love Truth even when you don't know what Truth is; Peace is not the effect of an action; Everything that shows me where...

Work to solve the mystery of your self, and realize the healing solution to every suffering one must face in this life. But, refuse Life's invitation to true self-realization, and the great Gift hidden in this sublime mystery is turned into a misery that has no solution.

Topics covered: We do not have consciousness, we are consciousness; Our experience of life can't be separated from the nature that perceives it; You can't solve problems from the level of thought that produces them; Real faith is rooted in things unseen; Nothing in the universe can stop you from changing; Having beliefs is a hindrance; My past is not who I am; Resistance is the source of all n...

If we are to succeed at taking back authority over our lives, we must persist. After all, we have many years of wrong thinking and negative emotions to see through. As we become more familiar with the wrong powers that have been ruling our lives all along, we discover many disturbing things within. With these new discoveries, it may even feel sometimes as though we're getting worse, not better...

Topics covered:  Exploration in the world alone is useless, as long as the nature that is searching does not know itself; Revelation is always about relationship, and without that understanding nothing can change for the individual; Faith is what happens when an individual begins to do what he or she was previously afraid of doing. Wisdom comes from a marriage between contemplation and action.