Student Talks: 10/16/2020 - Key Lesson: Part 1: We cannot live in fear of discovering the truth about ourselves, about our life... and hope to find the truth at the same time. Part 2: Here's an immutable spiritual law: we will never know all it's possible for us to be until we agree to consciously empty ourselves of all that we have been...

We cannot live in fear of discovering the truth about ourselves, about our life... and hope to find the truth at the same time...

Classroom Talk: 3/1/2020 - Real Life is a miracle revealing itself. The eyes that can see this truth are those no longer blinded by (all) the empty promises inherent in the illusion of passing time; to see things as they are...is to be what you are; to be what you are, without wanting to become anything more or less... is enlightenment.

If I ever needed higher help, I really need it now. When I came home yesterday from work I found that my wife had moved out and emptied the house. She and the children left without leaving a note or even letting me know where they are. This has been the worst year of my life, with money and children problems. Please help me. I am going crazy because I know I always did the right thing while we...

It's always the right time to discover something new and true about our own nature...

Topics explored in this dialogue: Anxious thoughts and feelings are not there to help us reach the promised land, instead they keep us a prisoner in the world of their empty promises; Anxiety has power over us because our mind is asleep to itself; Our problems exist because of unawareness, and the solution lies in awareness; Integration takes place within the light of awareness; The only way t...

Exercise: Spend time deliberately looking at something and feeling what you see. You will need to be empty, not allowing anything within you to change what you see. Then work to see what you feel, which requires that you be active in the moment. You can't separate pure seeing from pure feeling. In this act of double attention, where the active and passive worlds are married, you let the Divine...

Never forget the truth that follows, and freedom is nearer than you think: no real spiritual effort is ever in vain, even when we’re given to see -- as result of our inner work -- some low estate into which we’ve temporarily fallen...

Classroom Talk: 5/16/2003 - There is no human being on earth with the power to grant us what our heart of hearts longs for: the end of that empty feeling that as we are, we are simply not enough. And the struggle to resolve this unwanted feeling -- by selling our souls to win the approval of others -- is to run off a cliff while chasing the end of a rainbow!

Topics covered: Until you actually feel the other person you're speaking with you can't hear what they're saying; When you really listen to someone it involves all of your parts; We have to learn how to feel again; The more empty you are the more you can feel; You can't hurt someone that you understand; In answering a question it's more beneficial to address the nature asking the question; Eve...

How do I find some way to feel good about something that I have no interest in? If I am trying to motivate myself, it means that I have no real interest in what I am doing. Why would I even want to try to motivate myself to do something that I have no passion for? Why would I run myself through the same loops that I have already seen as being empty? The answer is that we human beings have bee...

Topics covered: Your body is a kind of temple with cornerstones that belong to your mind, heart, body, and the awareness of those three, for the purpose of holding right ideas together; Your lives are too scattered, not because the world is scattered, but because your mind is divided; Your work is about discovering how empty the opposites of “want” and “not want” are when they’re not together. Nothing can really change until you begin to...