If... You serve only yourself, You serve nothing. If... You love only yourself, You love nothing. If... You cling only to yourself, You hold nothing. If... You wish to please only yourself, You please nothing. If... You have only things as pleasures, You have nothing. If... Your thoughts wrestle with tomorrow, You struggle with nothing. If... You strive to amass o...
Staying present, living in Presence is the best gift anyone can give to those they love.
Real love is immeasurable, which means it can neither be reached nor realized through measured steps.
Classroom Talk: 12/20/2002 - Who serves only himself in this life may be first to find a seat at the table, but he eats from a plate filled only with emptiness.
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Classroom Talk: 10/15/2023 - When the truth is seen, Words, ideas, ambitions, Even lofty aspirations, Are recognized as blindfolds. Why wait to see?
What good is the love of Truth without standing up for the freedom it promises to those whom love it? This means that we must attend to, embrace, and then enact what is Light, Right, and True, even in the midst of all that may seem wrong within or around us. Only by daring to bring this intention into the midst of any such dark moment are we given to see -- first hand -- how His unfailing stre...
Nothing glows brighter than the heart awakened to the unseen light of Love that lives within it.
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Classroom Talk: 04/12/2026 - Passing time reveals the true nature of thought to be naught but grains of sand, endlessly spilling themselves out of – and back into – the nothingness from out of which they have come.
Classroom Talk: 1/3/2003 - Spending our time in quiet contemplation of the Truth, or simply practicing being still so as to discern the Divine within ourselves, is the same as finding answers to problems before they appear.
Student Talks: 10/20/2023 - Key Lesson: When the truth is seen... Words, ideas, ambitions, even lofty aspirations are recognized as blindfolds. Why wait to see?
If knowledge alone were enough to fill the empty heart, then all of the ideas with which we have filled ourselves -- about happiness, love, and contentment -- would have long ago brought an end to our seeking. See the ocean: it does not run after its own waves, as it knows they must return to rest in her depths. And so it is for us: whether we speak of joy, peace, strength, or love itself --...
Being renewed by Love -- and being willing to begin your life all over again -- are one and the same interior action. Learn what it means to do the latter and the freedom of the former will prove itself time and time again.