The more unwanted moments you're willing to walk into, the fewer unwanted moments will you have to go through.

Our consistent wish and work to meet, see through, and transcend any old fear of ours... ensures we will be given the new strength we need to do so.

It is impossible to let go of any painful thought or troubling feeling until we see the parts of us that are secretly clinging to it.

Classroom Talk: 4/6/2005 - Looking to negative thoughts, or dark emotional states, for the power to help you out of some unwanted moment in life, is like hoping that your own shadow -- cast by the sun setting behind you -- can guide you out of a desert in which you have become lost!

Classroom Talk: 05/31/2026 - Participating in the revelation of creation is the entrance into the realization of God’s life, paid for by the sacrifice of the lower self.

Key Lesson: There is no tension or anxiety in being watchful, while stresses of all makes and models are inherent in the illusion that it's possible for us to be in two places at a time.

The mind asleep to itself doesn't realize it creates the stress and strain it can't stop trying to rescue itself from; and that the more it struggles to think of a way out of its self-induced conflict, the greater grows its struggle.

Classroom Talk: 9/24/2023 - True joy is uncalled for; it is like a breeze you didn't know you were waiting for; a silence that speaks of things eternal; (it is) to experience and realize the completion of something within you that you didn't even know was missing.

Classroom Talk: 4/22/2020 - Truth, like sunlight, radiates out, pouring down ceaselessly from the "emptiness" of The Great Unknown into the fullness of how we experience it... as something temporarily "known." But, don't miss the point: without emptiness, nothing flows. We mustn't allow the fear of empty space to deceive us into...

Classroom Talk: 8/2/2005 - A true aspiration to be limitless is natural. Our heart longs for a life that is greater than that which we have had so far. Furthermore, it is possible to see and understand what we need to so that we can live the kind of life our heart longs for. What stands in the way?

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of February 19, 2018. Unconsciously identifying with any form of (psychological) pain doesn't just enhance, nourish, and help sustain the persistence of that suffering, but it also makes it seem more formidable, as you unwittingly increase its strength with each failed attempt to escape its mounting pressure.