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...

There is only one reason why we become emotionally negative, let alone surrender ourselves to its dark and debilitating embrace: We have forgotten that we have a choice as to what we love, and whose company we keep, accordingly.

To be undaunted in one's spiritual search does not mean undefeated -- only that one's love of truth outweighs the fear of failure, ensuring that whatever stands in one's way soon shows itself to be the Way itself.

Many students ask (and I paraphrase), "What must I do to win more of God's love, to be in greater contact with the Divine? How can I learn more about the celestial life, and begin to have more light in my life?" In truth, there is an answer to this kind of question, but no matter how the answer is stated, the only ones who can really hear it are those who are tired of listening to themselves...

The next time you're about to jump all over someone you love for having made a misstep, try to recall where you've fallen down in the same way. Consciously choosing to recollect your similarity (with that person's character) not only disarms the parts of you about to pounce on it, but this level of self-remembering also dispels the illusion of difference between the two of you, replacing i...

Classroom Talk: 5/30/2003 - There are times when the greatest act of kindness we can express towards another human being is to swallow our own sadness, or to refuse to make that sarcastic or impatient remark. Acts of kindness such as these cost us ourselves, and when we agree to pay this price it is a better, brighter world that we buy back.

There is only one reason why any of us ever do wrong to another, blame someone else for our sorrow, forget to be thankful for what we have, or go through our entire day without remembering our God...and that's because we have forgotten – once again -- our own interior wretchedness.

It is a mistake for us to think in terms of spiritual "success." We are not here to succeed as we currently believe; we are here to change. If we wanted to use words, we could say that real success lies in genuinely knowing and living our part in life. However, the problem is that we have unknowingly named for ourselves what our part is. If we truly want a new life, it will come at a great co...

In this world that we live in, nothing appears that is not an expression of an axiom. One of the reasons that the sun rises every morning is to reveal all that is created. Were it not for light, we would not be able to see forms because matter by itself is dark. Absolutely nothing in nature is special because everything is special. How many of you think that the world is intended to revolve a...

There's no way I could've known: Every love in my life... Every light through the trees, Every song in my heart, Every field in a breeze; Everything bright and beautiful, Kind, noble, or true, Is there... To remind me of you.