He is full of himself, filled with himself, and mistakes all of the fleeting sensations he clings to...as life itself. But in his hands he holds nothing save for a temporary agreement, a fleeting marriage of his own best ideas about himself confirmed for the moment by the world in which he seeks himself. This unconscious union of ambition and condition, of desire and conforming circumstance,...

A part goes looking for a part. And, seeking its missing part, casts all else aside, until... It casts away what it has found because yet another hole has opened up. And behold! ...Comes a parting of the parts; and, even as one stumbles, falling, drawn by gravity into Its own dark abyss...

One of our greatest, least understood sorrows in this life, the root cause of an uninspired life, is that -- given our present level of being -- we have no other place to explore besides the valley of thought: an unconscious realm where the shadows of things that were hide their emptiness by changing their shape to look like a time to come -- just ahead -- when, at long last, we will reach the time and place where our struggles with life are at last behind us!

Topics covered:  "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." -- C.S. Lewis; What is the nature of the emptiness that we have never been able to escape no matter what we have done?; Depression is the inevitable outcome of misunderstanding. It is a sin (missing the mark) to fall into depression because life has not given you what you want from it.

Classroom Talk: 12/12/2003 - Some come upon the truth of things only once they've run aground on the reefs of remorse; others long for anchorage in what endures only after the winds of fortune slack off, leaving their sails full of emptiness. But the Wise seek the Truth of themselves aright; they search moment to moment within the tides of their everyday affairs, and never look back to see if their wish to know what is Eternal and True has taken their vessel too far out to sea.

Fall is nature's preparation for regeneration, and we too should use this time to release anything left hanging over.

Has there ever been a time in your life -- a period of real self-enriching growth -- that wasn't connected to a risk you either willingly undertook or -- to a time of inner trial where there was no other choice for you but to take a risk? Of course, there's only one answer to this question, and it's one recognized as being true wherever you may ask it in the world: The prize of greater wisdom...

One of our greatest, least understood sorrows in this life, the root cause of an uninspired life, is that -- given our present level of being -- we have no other place to explore besides the valley of thought...

Topic: Agree to Enter Into "The Big Empty" (1/28/18 Classroom Talk)...

Topic: Agree to Enter Into "The Big Empty" (1/28/18 Classroom Talk)...