Student Talks: 7/7/2023 - Key Lesson: Here is why it's impossible to run after, let alone come to possess real peace of mind: the same moment we set out to do so... we disturb it.

Classroom Talk: 9/23/2023 - Inner joy can't be separated from a deep sense of gratitude that is, in turn, inseparable from a mind at peace with itself; it knows, without thought, that everything is in its right place -- being revealed at the right time.

If we look at (unexpected) events as something placed in our way, a troublesome time we must pile through on our way to some imagined peace to come, then we literally throw away the possibility of discovering that each moment, regardless of...

Have you ever wondered why you're so easily upset by the unexpected? It's not really you who feels shaky when situations shift without warning. It's who you think you are that feels threatened -- but you don't have to go on feeling afraid. Beginning right now, with some patient self-investigation and the aid of a few higher facts, you will discover that you are not who you think you are. T...

I see . . . that I have been of a warring spirit, commanded by its nature – but now I see the futility of war. I see . . . that I seek to command, to control all that moves around me because . . . I have no command of anything that moves within me that makes me hostage of a will seemingly beyond my ability to contest. I see that . . . I am a thing moved, challenged by...

It is a Law, not of man's or of woman's, but of life: Before you can have a different life -- before you can be happier, wiser, more at peace, and in quiet command of yourself -- you must first be different. Being is everything. What is Being? A moment's consideration helps determine that everything around us has some form of Being. Why is this true? Because all physical forms -- whether ani...

The clearer it becomes that it's impossible to "get ahead" of yourself -- physically, psychologically, spiritually -- the more at peace you are with whatever comes your way...because you're starting to realize now that who you are in the moment is the seed of all your moments to come.

If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that is never satisfied.

Let me tell you a little story. An aspirant, someone who wanted to make the discoveries that you and I are interested in, went to the master that she was working with, and wanted to know why it was that her transformation machine -- which was designed to turn lead into gold -- wasn't working the way it was when she saw her master use it. She says to him, "Look. I know it's built the same way. It's got the same parts. What's wrong?...

We can either be one with all that is changing in life, or we can remain in the dream that we live apart from these changes and continue fighting with themstruggling on in the vain hope that we'll find the peace we seek somewhere on the battlefield.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of February 11, 2013. You cannot separate the onset of the disturbing moment in life from the appearance of some simultaneous new possibility to know a deeper and more unshakable sense of peace.

Imagining all that remains to be done to realize the contentment we seek -- or that we must struggle with to attain some illusive peace of mind -- is like trying to calm the ripples on the surface of a reflecting pond...by throwing a polished stone into its waters.