If you want to know the peace that passes all understanding, then you must learn to do two things at once: First, reject the false belief that what's taking place outside of you is responsible for your pain. Then, in that same moment, dare to see that the true source of your conflict -- including your sense of being held a captive by it -- is inseparable from your resistance to realizing t...

Classroom Talk: 9/20/2002 - Loneliness stalks the heart that stands outside the present moment, looking back upon itself and feeling the pain of being without a love. If only this same heart, unknowingly divided, could see that this painful loneliness is produced by its own unhappy considerations of itself, then -- upon returning Home to its native Wholeness -- this heart now reunited would realize the lasting Love it could never find outside of itself.

Finally after 47 years I understand and feel the desire to understand the difference between the true self and the false self, and to clean up my life and my mind. When my mind starts to wander (which is almost all the time), I practice bringing myself back to the present moment. I am committed and really want to do this. However, I am feeling quite anxious and lost each day. A lot of uncomfor...

After listening to what you teach, I get the sense that longing, desire, and imagining takes one out of the present moment and Presence. Is this correct? If I choose to bring a mate and prosperity into my life, it is out of a longing and desire. I hear other human growth potential leaders say it is necessary to first visualize all this taking place. Please clarify for me. (From student corresp...

Our attention connects us to life; it establishes our relationships with all that unfolds around and within us.

Topics covered: We believe that thought is somehow one and the same as who we are, but that could not be further from the truth; In taking thought, everything about our relationship with the present moment is divided; "We do not have to understand new things, but by dint of patience, effort and method to come to understand with our whole self the truths which are evident." -- Simone Weil

Topics covered: Every step along the way to liberation is the same step: seeing the truth of yourself as you are in the present moment; Not one good thing has ever come out of impatience, irritability, resentment, or any other kind of negative state; We are not the way that we currently are because of any other person, any circumstance, any event, nor because of anything else outside of us...

Topics covered: Instead of telling you what to do, the present moment is first and foremost asking what it is that you love and what is it that you will serve; We are not going to change other people by resisting what they are and insisting that they be something else; Unconscious suffering involves blame, shame and judgment. Conscious suffering reveals unconscious suffering and everything that comes with it.

Student Talks: 7/1/2022 - Key Lesson: Part 1: The secret entrance into the unknowable Divine can never be found in this or that thought, but only within a faith-based action that must be trial-tested before it can be counted on as unquestionably True. Part 2: The instant that we stir any element of time -- of thought -- into our experience of the present moment we have sown...

Topics Covered: Our experience of life is intended to be an education so that we learn things we didn't know about ourselves the moment before; If we meet life caught up in a stream of thought, then there is no chance of being open enough to receive impressions; To see all there is means to be present to ourselves and unafraid because we stand in the shelter of the awareness that...

You don't have to believe that there's a fearless world above your present mind. You can live within its perfect order any time you choose. Make this choice for your own freedom starting right now.

Part 1 Any real intention we set for ourselves to rise above our present level of being is going to reveal a lower level of self that doesn't want to change. This is a powerful spiritual law that creates both challenge and opportunity at the same time. The challenge: agreeing to see how our unconscious nature -- encased and enchanted by its own negative reactions -- is incapable of doin...