Special effort is required to realize the Self within for whom the celestial principle of resistance serves love, instead of spoiling its possibility.

Classroom Talk: 4/29/2005 - Work to solve the mystery of your self, and realize the healing solution to every suffering one must face in this life. But, refuse Life's invitation to true self-realization, and the great Gift hidden in this sublime mystery is turned into a misery that has no solution.

Classroom Talk: 3/27/2024 - New, true self-knowledge re-orders the world we see because, for one thing, the way we experience each moment of life is inseparable from how we understand it; so that just as a fractured mirror can only reflect back an image that seems shattered, so is it true that a divided mind can't see what is holy.

Topics covered: You have one problem in life, which is what you don't know about yourself, exacerbated by a part of you that doesn't want to know anything; It is impossible to wish for true revelation and ask to see the truth of yourself without being given the truth you've asked to see; What we are always thinking about is, "How do I reconcile this disturbance I feel right now?" It's the endless quest of a runaway mind...

If you love getting gifts -- and who doesn't -- then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the "present" moment.

There is what we are given to do by this world, whatever those responsibilities may be; and then there is our right -- in any moment we remember to do so -- to give ourselves to what we love...

God's ever-present life pours into the soul willing to let go of what it has been for the sake of His Love.

For those who love Truth, who trust in its revelation -- even when hard to bear, the best part of life never stops coming.

Student Talks: 9/6/2024 - Key Lesson: As surely as planting a lemon seed will grow a tree full of lemons, so is the following true: any solution that begins with resisting (the pain of) some unwanted experience will not only prove itself fruitless, but always give birth to more of the same!

Remastered Classic Talk: 9/02/15 - We are convinced that if there's anything lacking in us, then the answer must be to acquire it, as has always been our go-to solution when suffering over some discontent. But as long as our hope for contentment is remanded over to a search for something outside of ourselves, we will never see the fact that this discontent is inseparable from our present level of self, let alone come to understand that the only solution for it rests therein... In the last place we would think to search for it.

Classroom Talk: 9/29/2004 - No one fails who falls in the battle to be a better human being, for while the "flesh" is often weak -- Spirit is indomitable -- and always rises anew, strengthened for its experience and ready to start again.