True nobility is not a question of birth right or social rank; it is the native estate of each soul that, upon awakening to its divine inheritance, knows the strength of these twin truths without having to think about them: justice and mercy are one, as is love and fearlessness.

Our (real) Mind is not intellect itself, nor is our Heart the seat of emotion alone; real Mind is the marriage of a higher order of intellect and heart: wherein feeling is wisdom -- and wisdom is, in turn, feeling; these two parts (of us) were never intended to be separated... as they now are for the majority of humanity. The purpose of (true) meditation is to reunite this crucial, innate re...

If attending to, and then surrendering oneself to the will of the Divine fulfills the highest possible purpose of one's real life -- and one works inwardly, as faithfully as one can to live this understanding -- then slowly, but surely appears a new kind of freedom; it appears in any and every moment when one sees that the true source of their psychological suffering has always had but a sin...

Part 1 The pain in any unwanted revelation over our present level of self is a creation of that same lower level of self that doesn't want its nature revealed. Part 2 There is no real consolation in our spiritual struggles unless we enter into them understanding that whatever sacrifice may be required of us serves a higher purpose than can be known by the parts of us thus summoned;...

True spiritual principles fail to free us because we call on them for the wrong purpose at the wrong time. Such principles are not for our protection, but to help us see, first hand, that there's no such "self" as we've imagined is in danger. Higher principles are not meant to keep us out of battles; they're intended to help us walk through them. There is no other way to discover that w...

Classroom Talk: 4/27/2005 - Life is a Gift, a Light given to us to be used -- not as a power to perfect what we have imagined is our good, but to awaken the one who dreams in darkness and through this illumination bring it into Perfection.

We have an essential need to be at peace. Part of that essential need to be at peace is to know that we are in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing -- and to know it in such a fashion that nothing can come along and convince us otherwise. There is only one way that can happen for us, and that is through the idea of being a true individual...

Classroom Talk: 3/30/2003 - We are never punished by life itself, but only by our life choices. This timeless Truth helps to explain how the wise can dwell in the exact same world as do the willfully ignorant, but instead of seeing it as a dark, empty, and often painful place, find it to be full of Light and rich with Promise.

What we live for, We give to. What we give to, We grow in. What we grow in, We become. What we are becoming Is our life, However we may name it. Only through a change In what we live for Is there a Life beyond becoming.