Ever since I learned about the law of attraction (and have experienced it), I have stopped reading newspapers because I don't want to give my attention and energy to the conflicts in this world, but rather to peace and happiness. However, I feel like this is making me ignorant. I really do want to work towards international conflict resolution and peace, but what role should learning history a...

Classroom Talk: 1/13/2021 - What is real spiritual strength? It is knowing that we need never (again) compromise ourselves in any way -- with anyone, or over anything -- in order to be at peace: (it is) a perfectly quiet confidence in the awareness that our existence owes no debt to any condition, let to the passage of time in which it temporarily appears.

One reason why negative states sneak in so easily to steal our peace is that we have been conditioned to believe in their right to punish us.

Classroom Talk: 11/6/2022 - Real Life is a miracle unfolding in slow motion. The eyes that can see this truth are those no longer blinded by the nature of thought whose sleight-of-hand creates and sustains the illusion of passing time; to see things as they are is to be what we are: travelers through a time and realm whose peace passes all understanding.

The only thing a thousand failed attempts to find the peace we seek proves is this: some unknown part of us -- we've mistaken as being us -- keeps us looking in all the wrong places! This is why we must have new, true self-knowledge, because the journey to silent joy begins within us, or not at all.

A question no one wants to ask, but that... for all who would awaken to the indwelling Divine... must be (asked), is: Who has time to sit quietly, at peace (within oneself)... when it seems there's so much to get done "before" one can spend one's time realizing a Peace that "passes all understanding"? Yet -- (and this is the kicker) -- where is all of one's time spent...

Classroom Talk: 10/9/2002 - Part 1: We are subjected to the unconscious pain of any negative state that we refuse to make the subject of our own conscious self-study. Part 2: Peace can never be obtained by conquering fear but only in seeing that there is nothing one can possess that will gently hold the mind still or fill the heart with grace.

Until we realize that continually identifying with our own conflicting desires about how to win peace of mind is like using a cannon blast to light a candle, we will only remain at war within ourselves -- all the while blaming the world around us for its insensitive inability to grant us that imagined peace we so desperately seek! Let's illuminate, by example, a few of these conflicting desir...

We're always trying, one way or the other, to grab and maintain something that will make us feel safe and whole forever. The pursuit of that wholeness, of that security, is through what we commonly call "powers." When we think of our security, we think of the powers that we must have to maintain it -- whether it's trying to please other people, trying to have, keep, and gain more possessions, or struggling to get some kind of control over a relationship or...

Classroom Talk: 7/10/2002 - Crying out in any fashion that you cannot seem to find some peace of mind, even as you cultivate and embrace disturbing thoughts about your life or towards others makes about as much sense as someone who hangs out with known thieves while complaining that he keeps getting robbed.