The human heart is both wine cellar and crystal glass; to drink deeply from its private reserve requires only that one enter into it with a silent wish to taste the Divine.
Student Talks: 04/04/2025 - No one wins freedom who hasn't first realized the invisible relationship between resistance and revelation, and how one cannot appear without the other; wherein to see that they secretly serve one another, is to put both in your service.
Giving your consent to live in fear of some moment to come is no different than walking out of the warm sunlight into a dark shadow . . . and then blaming the sun for your sudden chill.
Is there one factor upon which success in life is determined?...
I am holding a self-image of wanting to see myself as lovable. I also fight against the painful self-image of being unlovable. Both of these images seem so fundamental to my experience. Any comments? How can we maintain after an epiphany or mountain top experience? Nothing seems to fade faster than inspiration in the face of the mundane. Is there really the ability to heal oneself from majo...
Student Talks: 04/03/2026 - By itself, no thought has the power to trouble us; its authority over us is equal to the extent we are deceived into identifying with its particular, temporary character.
All forms of anxiety are created and sustained by the vain attempt to either acquire what we imagine will make us feel complete, or the equally vain attempt to escape or otherwise control what we perceive is making us feel incomplete or inadequate.
Whenever we love someone (even a natural wonder or common creature), we know that our own higher emotional state awakens in us a kind of exalted energy; one that seems to melt barriers and that brings us into relationship with our beloved in ways beyond our understanding. Not only does this unseen force of life grant us access to the secret regions of our beloved's heart but, in some mysterio...
Each of us longs to grow beyond who and what we have been every day, answering that wish within us to become better, brighter human beings. But as we all know too well, nothing moves in a straight line! We all make mistakes along the way. We have to. That's part of what makes us human; blunders along the way are an inescapable part of the process of our own perfection. But used rightly, t...