Nothing in reality is fixed; the illusion of being unable to transcend some unchanging nature within you is the work of unseen resistance to the ceaseless transformation that is the matrix of Real Life.

Classroom Talk: 2/9/2003 - No one succeeds in Life who is driven through it, because unless you are at the wheel of your own thoughts and feelings, they are incapable of reaching a natural stop. Crashing into Life is not what it means to rest.

Classroom Talk: 11/13/2002 - The continuing unconscious comparison of who we think ourselves to be, in contrast with who we imagine we ought to be, is the unseen movement of misery seeking new company without ever leaving the house of itself.

Classroom Talk: 7/7/2002 - Spiritual speaking... Knowledge by itself can change nothing real. Effort without knowledge is directionless. Only knowledgeable efforts reveal the hidden structure of God's Reality and permit us to change our relationship to, and within, that Greater Life.

Topics covered:  Judgement is a relationship killer; It’s impossible to learn about the nature that meets everything through thought when we’re always in the world of thought ourself; We unknowingly fear our experience of a moment that our own mind has generated.

Topics covered: If you believe that you can lose your freedom, then you never had it to begin with; We are that which is used by the Divine, or we are not. If not, then there will always be an anxious attempt to achieve what freedom is imagined to be; Conflict in nature strengthens the whole of nature so that it comes out it more complete. Conflict for human beings always leads to more conflict and weakness...

The only thing (in life) that goes from standing still -- to one thousand miles per hour, in a single mad dash -- are negative reactions fueled by a kind of anti-matter called "resistance" to real life.

Topics covered:  The antidote is in the venom. Likewise, the answer that you look for to ease a pain is not outside of the moment that the pain appears; It is the way that you see the moment that produces the feeling of being seized by it; Does a moment itself, as it is, have any psychological weight? No, the weight is in the consciousness that struggles against the moment.

It is far better for us to seek the Truth of ourselves, as challenging as this course may be at times, than to rest in the false comfort of believing ourselves to be something we are not, and then finding out too late the lie.

Our spirit is not meant to sink. At any given moment, we can tell what we are living from by the way we see the world around us. We are not meant to live with a heavy heart, but at present we do not know what else to do. There is no denying the fact that, at times, life can weigh heavily upon our hearts and minds, but we can remain aware of the heaviness instead of consenting to live under it.