Topics covered: Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me; Harmony is balance, and peace is the outcome; Life is disturbance; The mind seeks something to be for or against; We must have the capability necessary to be at peace; The task is to understand our relationship to a greater life; Peace lies in the whole of something, not in the part; 'Doing' is downstream from 'being'; Each...

What causes disputes between human beings? What is this business of "what I believe" vs. "what you believe"? Can we see that you cannot separate what you believe in from what you want? When I say, "I believe in this," and "I believe that you should be like that," what I'm really saying is that I insist you be what I believe you should be, because if you don't, we have war...

The only true antidote for antagonistic feelings towards others seen as being unlike we are, is to realize this simple -- but largely unwelcome truth: just like ourselves, everyone -- everywhere in the world -- is doing the best they know how to do with the pain that they have been given.

Sooner put out a fire with jet fuel than gain the upper hand on some anxious state by throwing more agitated thoughts into its turmoil.

Part 1: You can neither control, nor change any anxious thought or emotion that rushes in and sweeps you off of your feet because this 'I' -- this sense of yourself suddenly in a struggle to escape a psychological storm -- is itself a part of the squall it now so vigorously resists. Part 2: Every thought, a blockage. Every emotion, a limitation. Every movement, a hindrance to Thee.

Interview with Maggie McCauley of "A New View" on 7/14/09. Topics explored in this dialogue: The inner determines the outer, Letting go has nothing to do with the release of anything outside of yourself, Discovering who and what you really are.

To grow into a new and higher order of peace we must remember at the first sign of resisting some unwanted moment that we must work to detect and dismiss any tendency we have to identify with that negative reaction...

I am always surprised by your strength -- by how happy I am to be too weak to do anything except completely accept you. What is this power of yours? How shall I understand it? 

Are you a Gathering Force? When you come, do you collect all the parts of me that have wandered off high and low looking for you... somehow drawing them all into one place wherein their deep peace is that they once again know that they need never look for anything...

Our experience of each moment -- for its pleasure or pain, peace or trouble -- is a direct reflection of what we are in relationship with in the present.

I recently watched a documentary where a popular singer gave a rousing performance of John Lennon's song "Imagine" at a religious gathering. By the time he brought the song to a climactic end, thousands of people were caught up in a frenzy -- crying out in a unison of heated passion over love and its possibility for bringing peace to a weary world. But, as should be well-evidenced by now, spir...

Beauty is not found in its infinite and ineffable "details" -- but in its deft ability to still the mind and fill the heart with quiet gratitude.

The secret folly of we human beings isn’t that we struggle to have a say in our experience of life, but rather that — in spite of all evidence to the contrary — we cling to the idea that we understand the true nature of experience.