Allowing any part of (your) self to act in such a way as to deny you a new awareness of yourself – whatever its quality – is the same as refusing your right to realize the limitless depth and breadth of your True Self.

Classroom Talk: 12/21/2022 - How can we ever hope to be at peace with life when -- for the most part -- all we know to live for is the endless struggle to carve out a piece of it for ourselves?

Classroom Talk: 9/11/2022 - Being convinced to worry over some darkness that "might be" just around the corner is an unseen interior shell game; (it's) a "play and lose" operation run by parts of us that know if they can't keep us resisting some impending fear they will have no choice but to disappear!

Classroom Talk: 1/1/2020 - Here is the real "secret" of starting over: No moment in this life of ours can be any newer than we are willing to be at the outset of its appearance.

Every great journey begins in faith, not with facts. The great explorers throughout history never had facts about the new worlds they were about to discover before they set out on their journeys. New worlds were discovered because these explorers had faith that they existed. It is through the journeying itself that we find what we really need, not in the collecting and mulling over of intellec...

The more lost in thought you become, the less likely you'll be able to find your way back Home.

You'll start feeling a lot less fearful of others once you realize that anyone who wants to impress you with all that he knows... really doesn't understand much at all!...

Though we find no evidence of anything noble in someone who has betrayed us, neither is there anything noble in our bitterness.

We must do more than just try to remember that nothing disturbs our peace of mind without first having gained our consent to enjoin us in that conflict; we must learn to fight for ourselves, to boldly reject any negative state that would rule us -- or else accept the lot of victim and wear his mantle of woe.

We have no idea about the nature of real power; it isn't the ability to control, or otherwise resolve, the outcome of some conflicted relationship in life...so as to restore some lost sense of harmony; no, real power rests in seeing, in real time, that all (our) relationships are completed in the same moment they're revealed. So that...real power is not over things; it resides, without asserti...

The living now is a timeless Presence; it is neither the outcome of the past, nor a door to some imagined future; passing time is just one of the ways in which that which is always present appears, but this apparent movement of time no more defines or confines Real Life than the rising and setting of the sun changes the nature of light.

Making the wise choice to release one's resistance to some unwanted moment does more than just change the perceived tide of events; it proves that we're never too far from the open inlet of a safe harbor whose deep and quiet waters shelter all who enter.