Classroom Talk: 10/20/2002 - Part 1: True Silence is not the pleasurable sensation born of a quiet time taken in nature, and neither is it the natural repose that comes quietly at the close of day. True Silence is not a feeling at all, but is to one's emotions as is the sky to the sunlight that streams through it, lending it life. Part 2: Self-created silence cannot be creative.
Topics covered: Why do we deflect unwanted moments instead of using them as a point of reflection? What is the teacher other than the moment that we don't want?; In the end, what we are looking for in all of our searching is ourselves; Everything in creations longs to touch and to be touched; It isn't life that is overwhelming us... we are overwhelmed by our unconscious resistance to life...
Whenever we will put ourselves on the side of what we know is true, then the Truth takes our side... lending us what is noble, needful, and divine; so Truth sees to it that we are strengthened by wisdom, sheltered by light, and that our heart knows the peace of having fulfilled her plan.
Classroom Talk: 2/2/2005 - That strong sense of urgency -- that pressurized feeling that comes with struggling to obtain or resolve whatever is imagined as being critical to your sense of contentment -- is one of the ways the false self makes the essentially meaningless seem incredibly meaningful for as long as it's pursued.
Real...am I. Only when Thou art with me. Real...I am, Lives in remembrance of Thee.
Success and security are big ideas. But there are bigger ideas that stand behind them, powers that make such achievements possible to attain. These bigger ideas represent the brightest, most empowering forces in our universe: Peace, Wisdom, Kindness, and Freedom ... just to name a few.
Whenever we put ourselves on the side of what we know is true, then the truth takes our side, lending us what his noble, needful, and Divine. Truth sees to it that we are strengthened by wisdom, sheltered by light, and that our soul knows -- moment-to-moment the peace of realizing its highest possibility.
Whoever doesn't know himself, suffers unwillingly for the sake of ignorance. Whoever works to know himself, agrees to suffer for the sake of Wisdom. Whoever becomes Wise, slays the suffering born of ignorance. And whoever transcends the suffering born of ignorance shares in the birth and burden of creation, in which can be found no greater peace or joy.