The only way to exercise your spiritual right to be free is by a continuous effort to enter into, and understand, the nature of what keeps you captive.

It is impossible to be thinking about a spiritual principle – as in how to best use it in one’s hour of need – and practice it at the same time.

Spiritual wisdom is our greatest wealth and, as we realize the truth of this -- so that true self-knowledge becomes our single greatest wish in life -- each moment of every one of our relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of ourselves.

Student Talks: 12/22/2023 - Key Lesson: Every once in a while, we have the great fortune of perceiving a moment of such astonishing beauty, or harmony, that we all but lose ourselves within it. But what is far more amazing than any such vision is this breathtaking fact: were it not for our mysterious capacity to perfectly reflect that moment -- to be one with it in heart, mind, and soul -- there would be no beauty or harmony to behold.

Learning to let the whole world pass us by is the only way to discover that the fear of losing some imagined power, possession, or position in life is the same dying to an equally imagined lower level of self that "lives" to cling to it.

Nothing in the universe can make you relive the ache of some past psychological pain. This means that any misery over a mistake in your past -- whether ten seconds passed, or twenty years gone by -- belongs to a part of you whose very "life" depends upon driving...

The following eight points are essential spiritual truths. Individually they represent vital lessons that must be learned along the Path to Real Life. Collectively these same truths hint at the promise of a spiritual power for which there is no substitute: The certainty, compassion, and quietude of a mind filled by the Light of Truth. For the best results read each of these separate truths...

Throughout one's spiritual quest, patience should always hold the reins... But a steady, ready persistence to walk into the new -- and to realize what's true -- must lead the way.

The Paradox: The greater any spiritual moment is, the less of "you" there is within it -- so that complete fullness only takes place in the presence of complete emptiness.

Just because it's hard for us to remember that great invisible laws govern all things in life does not exempt us from the cost of that forgetfulness.

Here is the long and short of a very simple, but powerful spiritual truth: it is impossible to measure one's self without using both ends of the ruler....

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of February 29, 2016. Part 1: The vast majority of humanity views the idea of spiritual rebirth as some sort of prize to be claimed and declared: a new and exciting personal possession, like having won a tropical island in a high-stakes lottery. But true rebirth is nothing of the kind; (it is) a distinct awareness within oneself of a timeless and intelli...