Classroom Talk: 12/19/2003 - Just as the value of a precious stone is known by how well it reflects back the light that enters into it, so too is the worth of the human heart a reflection of the life it absorbs and transforms, and then gives back to others.

Each one of us is the living expression of the sum of our understanding, and it is the sum of our understanding that determines our level of happiness. Most of our experiences in life would be different if we were more present and aware of ourselves in the moment. By becoming aware of our habitual reactions to life's movements, we can begin to notice where it is that we compromise ourselves. M...

Just as the eyes that see the sun cannot understand its light by which they behold the shape and beauty of all things, neither can the heart understand the love that calls it to know and encompass all things...

No one is obligated to “love thy neighbor as thyself”, let alone to seek and find one’s place in the Great Circle of Life; yet, “it is written” in the stars themselves: all must eventually pay for what they have done...

Classroom Talk: 9/28/2003 - What doesn't go the right way for the one who understands that, once awakened to Real Life, nothing can go the wrong way?

True kindness --the flowering of patience, compassion, and the quiet, but unshakable strength for which we all aspire -- is only found growing along that uphill path called "humility."...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of April 4, 2016. Justifying what we see in ourselves of an unkind, selfish, angry, or otherwise self-harming character -- that we know hurts us, and others -- is how the negative nature that nurtures and harbors these dark states hides itself from our view. It accomplishes this mean feat -- of being able to justify what is inherently unjust -- by conven...

Student Talks: 8/11/2023 - Key Lesson: Part 1: There is no relief from the conflict and grief born of unrealized self-ignorance, which is why it's wise to seek self-knowledge. Part 2: The hardest thing in the world is to quietly do what life asks of you; but, if you attend to this first, Divine desire, all else is added... and you "shall not want."

Topics covered: Intellectual knowledge is not the same as understanding. Do not mistake thinking for being; A sudden sense of disturbance comes with the want of relief from that same disturbance; What we really want relief from are the unseen part of our consciousness that by its very nature has attracted the conditions that it then seeks freedom from; What is true refuses to live with conflict or act from weakness.

The door to the limitless life opens for us only as wide as we are willing to love being made aware of our present limitations.

Sometimes the very best thing we can do for those we love -- or, for that matter, anyone we meet -- is what we don't do to them!...

Just as a branch grows out of the vine, so does our True Self dwell within the timeless patience, wisdom, and perfect love of the Divine.