Any time you're rushing around, under pressure to hurry up and "get it done"... you may be assured of the following truth: not only will you run right by the (real) purpose of your life... but crossing whatever may be your "finish line" of the moment will prove itself as meaningless as the time you wasted trying to get there.

All unhappy thoughts are creations of a mind that visits what it does for the sole purpose of stirring up something with which to stimulate itself. To see this truth is to see that you are not this mind, nor its misery -- which further means you need never again consent to the captivity inherent in trying to sort out its sufferings.

Realize the amount of pain in your impatience, and in that revelation you will also know the extent to which you’re deceived about who you are, and the true purpose of (your) life...

Patience can be a great virtue, while learning to push ahead often proves invaluable to those who prevail; but only a marriage of these two spirits can grant us true success, because in their union we are empowered with a calm and steady watchfulness that is always ready and willing to act.

"Each of us, as human beings, is created for a specific purpose. And it's impossible for any of us to understand what that purpose is as long as our present condition prohibits it. Our present condition is that we are prisoners of a sort. We remain captives (without knowing it) within the confines of a certain order of our own mind, our own consciousness, in which we were never intended to live..."

Student Talks: 6/16/2023 - Key Lesson: If we would ever be free... this is what we must come to see: our troubled thinking is a "racket" in both meanings of the word: (it is) a noise seeking to silence itself, in a "rigged" search that has no end.

We can’t be more than we are given to see -- and to be -- IF we agree to allow that awareness to serve its given purpose in each moment...

Classroom Talk: 9/19/2003 - Here is how to receive a gift from Life greater than can be told: never again give to another person any thought or feeling that you wouldn't want to keep for yourself.

Remastered Classic Talk: 1/18/17 - Action without knowledge is reckless at best, and is almost always dangerous to everyone involved. Knowledge without action is useless at best, and guarantees that the individual who is "inclined to recline" will remain in the realm of the sleeping intellect.

The vast majority of our mental, emotional, and physical patterns -- those repetitive, too familiar pathways along which we walk, are -- in fact -- the creations of an unconscious nature... and all designed to fulfill its unseen purpose: that in our constant, but ultimately meaningless considerations of all we see unfolding around us, we are rendered as good as blind... both to the presence...