The only way to be free of whatever it is that troubles you about someone else is to be free of that trouble within yourself.

Here is a tough spiritual lesson, but one that must be learned before we free ourselves from the circle of false friends: There was once a sheep who kept crying out, "Why do the wolves chase me, bite at my heels, and want to hurt me so?" The Shepherd smiled and replied: "Why do you like to wander through the woods where they live, and what makes you think that when another creature shows yo...

Rushing through anything is a sure sign that you neither understand what you're doing in the moment, nor why you are actually doing it. Getting anxious over any task is proof that you don't know who you are.

Before speaking to someone who intimidates me, I sometimes feel my throat start to close up and my voice choke up with so much tension that I find it hard to speak. I've got to get behind this fear, but I don't know how! One way in which it's possible for us to outgrow the problems that we face is to not let those problems dictate our behavior to us. In this instance...

Student Talks: 5/5/2023 - Key Lesson: The witness to experience is not bound by it, any more than a clear sky can be captured by a passing cloud, or a sound can seize the ear that hears it.

The reason why we can't see the impossibility of appeasing our hunger for 'more' is because our lower nature is incapable of learning the fact that -- spiritually speaking -- 'more' doesn't exist without 'less.' Experience proves, irrefutably, the presence of something within us that is -- for all intents and purposes -- bottomless. Where, in fact, the more we pour into it, the bigger becomes...

Student Talks: 6/9/2023 - Key Lesson: Part 1: We cannot know the depth and breadth of our highest, heavenly possibilities as long as we fear to explore, realize, and release all that keeps us bound to this earth. Part 2: Our unconscious conditioning goes before us every moment, acting as the unseen judge, jury, and "executioner" of each, and every moment of our life.

Student Talks: 7/23/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Nothing serves to create a greater sense of isolation -- a feeling of being cut off from life -- than being at the center of your own thoughts about yourself; where you live out your days as a castaway on the "island of self" upon which you have, unknowingly, agreed to abandon yourself. Part 2: No worldly acclaim, possession, or relationship with...

We can either spend our lives fearful of any unwanted event that comes along to challenge our sense of self, or we can use that same situation to help set ourselves free.

Student Talks: 9/05/2025 - There's no such thing as having a bad day, only our (present) inability to see the Good in it.

 

Student Talks: 8/18/2023 - Key Lesson: Negative reactions -- in fact any form of painful resistance -- prevail only when we fail to remember it is -- at once -- our Divine right, and our work to transform, and transcend them.

Student Talks: 6/14/2024 - Key Lesson: Any form of unconscious identification IS limitation; this lower nature lives to judge the limitations of others, so that it never has to see the real source of its suffering... is hidden in just how limited -- tiny and tormented -- is the world it never stops making from itself.