There is nothing better, healthier, or higher for anyone to do, each day -- in every possible way -- than to sit quietly, all by oneself, deeply engaged in the simple act of honest self-observation.

Every one of us who has ever been thrust into some seemingly overpowering circumstance is more than equally empowered to understand the following: What we receive in those life moments amounts to our individual life experience... and what we experience as our individual life has to do with that level of life's possibilities that we embrace and ultimately express...

Topics covered: Informal discussion with Guy Finley.

The emphasis on learning to "see" -- to work at being watchful -- is not to acquire power to resolve our disturbances; it is the way through which we end of the illusion of either having power, or of needing it.

The mind that thinks in order to understand life believes it can see, but (it) can't; while the mind that sees doesn't need to think to understand life; (it) has no need for belief.

Classroom Talk: 7/3/2024 - Honesty heals; lies hurt. In these four words live all one needs to know and practice—that is, assuming one wishes to be whole, harmless, loving, and true.

Truthful self-seeing is the beginning of having an authentic life... one in which we learn that the initial bitterness of self-truthfulness is the front-runner of our ultimate spiritual betterment.

Within each of us dwells a certain lower level of "self" whose chief feature is to ensure that no one ever doubts its perfection.

Topics covered: Images of ourselves exist instead of us, and they exist only in our mind; Actions that we take against ourselves are the response to unseen anxiety we felt the moment before; To create or to complete, that is the question; Aside from practical thought, the very nature of planning for a moment to come is the seed of fear; Our minds are seeded with constant dissatisfaction...

All violence towards others, or any attack upon oneself, is nothing more than one's own unconscious imperfection trying, in vain, to keep itself out of sight.

Topic: Take Off the "Hat of Unhappiness" and Welcome a Brand New You (Classroom Talk 3/8/23)

Topic: Freedom Arrives When You Stop Serving and Begin Observing Your Reactions (11/17/19 Classroom Talk)