Can you fail at wanting to do something? No, it is impossible to fail at wanting to do something. When everything is said and done, what your heart of hearts wants is to have no doubts whatsoever that you spent your life wanting God's life. There is no such thing as failure in a sincere wish for God's life; in truth, the success is in the wish itself. A sincere wish holds no fear, unless it b...

When it comes to experiencing an overall sense of peace, happiness, and abiding contentment, we are not created to be self-filling beings.

Waiting for a peaceful life to come as a result of what others do is like hoping that you can quench your thirst by watching someone else drink water. Real peace is not an agreement between others; it is a personal act of sacrificing the self that believes others are responsible for the conflict it experiences.

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Unlike lesser-level creatures that are not conscious of their own nature -- and that cannot choose any other world of experience apart from the one they are drawn to by their own lower nature -- we, as human beings, are unique in creation. We are created to be self-conscious. In spiritual terms this means we may have an awareness of any of the infinite number of qualities that form the charac...

The meditative life is not limited to sitting down someplace quietly, nor is it limited to someplace in time where we can control conditions so that we can experience something of a quiet mind. It can be said that meditation is the active relationship that an individual has with the whole of his or her life. Indeed, if we were able to see clearly enough into our own life, we would see some...

Until we learn to make peace with our own sense of emptiness, we will never know the true nature of fulfillment.

Topic: Find the Inexplicable Peace in the Place Where Fear and Sorrow Used to Dwell (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 7/22/26)

Peace of mind cannot be 'pieced' together anymore than it's possible to sew water, or weave sunbeams into light.