Student Talks: 4/15/2022 - Key Lesson: The Unknowable Source of Peace in real life far exceeds our reach... because it can't be grasped, let alone taken by hand; it can only be received by a heart that has willingly emptied itself of hope in all things seen.

Being at peace, and learning to live with quiet confidence -- even as the world spins wildly around us -- begins as we realize within us the presence and power of an interior stillness that neither needs, nor searches for, anything outside of itself in order to quietly know itself. During these last three months of the year -- as we watch the life force of nature withdraw itself -- we see fie...

I have been a seeker for as long as I can remember, and have appreciated your materials and videos. I believe in God, in a traditional Christian way. I am an everyday guy... I've been in the military, I've been a chef, and I've been a police officer. I provide you this background as perhaps some insight for my question. We have to choose in our mind if we see a loving and peaceful world or a c...

Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!...

Student Talks: 9/4/2020 - Key Lesson: Part 1: There can be no silence, no real peace in our heart and mind without full acceptance of each moment... And there could be no such acceptance of the moment without accepting what the moment reveals to us -- about us -- in that same moment. Part 2: Self-acceptance is self-realization...

How do I find peace when I suspect that my spouse may be having an affair? I have not said a word about it, but how do I make peace "inside me" with that fact, especially when it hurts so much?(Student correspondence)...

Classroom Talk: 5/7/2004 - When we rush through anything, we miss seeing everything.

Classroom Talk: 11/24/2019 - We all want to be new; we long to meet each moment with a clear mind and open heart. But being new is not a destination; neither does it wait for us in some imagined time to come. Being new is an action; and it is now... or never.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of June 6, 2016. Part 1: Peace of mind cannot be pieced together anymore than it's possible to sew water, or weave sunbeams into light. Part 2: You cannot separate the onset of the disturbing moment in life from the appearance of some simultaneous new possibility to know a deeper and more unshakable sense of peace.

Step by step, little by little -- as we are willing to see how seeing the Truth of ourselves turns all of life in our favor -- do we realize the peace of a higher understanding that can be gained in no other way: the Universe (itself) is, and always will be... our Friend.

Classroom Talk: 8/11/2002 - As long as we are at war within ourselves with all of the stress and sorrow such conflict breeds, everyone around us is a potential casualty of our pain.

The next time something dark or disturbing tries to steal into you to wreck your contentment, do not consent to be drawn into its seemingly important considerations.