A small mind is filled to overflowing by its love of little things...

Until the peace and pleasure found within yourself is equal to or greater than any consolation found outside of yourself, then your power to be patient, loving, and profitable in every moment is, at best, conditional.

Until the peace and pleasure found within yourself is equal to -- or greater than any consolation found outside of yourself -- then your power to be patient, loving, and profitable in every moment is, at best, conditional.

If you want to stop feeling like a choiceless captive in life, notice how parts of yourself love to catch negative thoughts; then dare to drop this self -- with its torments -- before they drag you down.

Topics covered: There is an interior sanctuary that awaits human beings if they will only follow the breadcrumbs of truth that lead them there; There is nothing within thought that can satisfy the soul that hungers for what is true. What we really hunger for already exists; How often have we filled ourselves with things outside of ourselves -- including images produced by our own mind -- that turn out to be futile?

Learn to fall in love with seeing what's Right, Bright and True... and the rest of your days on earth, even ever-after, become a journey of discovering what is nothing less than the best in you.

Classroom Talk: 12/15/2024 - Being in conscious relationship with what is Holy in life is only as possible as we are willing to see, and to be, accordingly, the whole of who and what we are in each moment.

Have you ever been drawn into a fight with a loved one where - by the time you got knee-deep into who's "right" and who's "wrong" -- maybe over the most trivial of matters -- it felt as if, somehow, your very life depended on the outcome of that fight We've all had moments like this, perhaps too many times; which is why it seems strange that we've yet to see the following...

Remastered Classic Talk: 10/05/16 - The spiritual search for the "old nature" set against you... isn't a "snipe hunt." The source of human misery is not a myth; so that if you've yet to see the beast of self-centeredness, if you don't recognize this creature for what it is -- and where -- it lurks within you... then at least learn to look for its tracks. That way, you might one day trace them back to its dark lair, where lie all the bleached bones of your life past. Don't be dismayed by this prescription, rather hear its timeless promise: your wish and willingness to enter into this place marks its death, not yours.

The true measure of our love for the Light of the Divine isn't found in how much it fills us, but rather in our willingness to empty ourselves (of our self) for the sake of living its Presence.

Topic: How to Reclaim the Immeasurable Treasure of Your True Self (3/10/21 Classroom Talk)

True compassion -- a patience that never punishes -- is our yet realized right to “love our neighbor as ourself.” But this Grace belongs only to those who have seen...