There is an endless hole in the heart of most of us; a pit that demands our faithful daily service and that causes us, in our compulsion to fill it, to be pitiless towards those who stand in the way of this endless ambition. Most of us will spend our lives as slaves to this psychic abyss, driven in one form or another to satisfy in ourselves what can only be satisfied by our continuing struggl...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of September 22, 2014. Part 1: Attending to, completing what the present moment asks of you... is the business of real Life. In the silence of this relationship is revealed and received, at once, the wisdom and wealth of your True Self. A few of these timeless riches include: a faith no fear can shake, an innocence no temptation can break, and a freedom...

Whether the winds of fortune blow hot, cold, left, right -- in the face, or from behind -- don't lean toward one, or away from the other. Instead, remain awake and stand upright; only a quietly balanced mind can walk -- unharmed and unhurried -- over the uneven surfaces of this world while doing no harm to others...

What do we need to do to rise above the limitations of our present understanding -- limitations that, seen or not, play a role in our daily dose of heartache? The answer may surprise you! Truth teachings throughout the ages tell us that healing the hidden and hurting places in our heart begins with becoming conscious of them. We are taught that we cannot free ourselves of anything that we refu...

Topics covered: New Year's resolutions always revolve around wanting to keep the so-called "good" parts of what I call "me," and not-wanting what I call the "bad" parts; If you want to have a new life, you cannot bring old wants along with you; There is an innate longing to be in relationship with what cannot be expressed in words; True spiritual teachings are not recognizable by the consciousness that has faith only in things seen...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 26, 2018. Part 1: Never fear the loss of what will, and must disappear in this world of passing time. The work of remembering this timeless, (but unwanted) truth is the same as connecting yourself to the love of an all-embracing, fearless awareness... that never dies.

Here is why a mind awakened to its own native silence never gets into a stew over what to do with any negative thought that appears within it: Just as light makes obvious whatever form is brought into it, so silence can "see" a troubled thought for what it is in reality: nothing more than an agitated noise fashioned into a familiar shape; a discovery that -- once made -- requires nothing of us...

Classroom Talk: 8/4/2019 - The body can be disciplined. The mind should be trained. But, spiritual realization requires that one's wild heart be surrendered.

I will be with you until the end of time, but if you look for me in (passing) time, you will not find me there...

There is only one requirement if our wish is to 'boldly go where no one has gone before....' And that is to realize that not only are we the explorer, but the new frontier is either found within us, or not at all.

Whenever we love someone (even a natural wonder or common creature), we know that our own higher emotional state awakens in us a kind of exalted energy; one that seems to melt barriers and that brings us into relationship with our beloved in ways beyond our understanding. But that's not all: not only does this unseen force of life grant us access to the secret regions of our beloved's heart bu...

The reason it's so important to always go the "extra mile" in your inner work -- to do what you don't want to do, or feel like you can't do -- is that there is no other way for you to tap into a resource that only after you've expired all of your own.