Here is a great spiritual truth: The only time we ever "fail" at anything in our lives is when we walk away from some challenging moment before we've allowed it to teach us its lessons.

The fear of -- and unconscious resistance to seeing the depth and breadth of one's own weakness -- is not the same as realizing one's actual state of (spiritual) helplessness in that same moment.

The true spiritual path is not so much about changing the kind of works that we do, as it is about realizing the need to change for whom it is that we do them.

Knowledge alone, without awakening to the spiritual wisdom it represents, is like finding yourself on a cold night with all the wood in the world...and having no flame with which to light it.

Here is a great spiritual truth: The only time we ever "fail" at anything in our lives is when we walk away from a challenge before we've allowed it to teach us its lessons.

Never fear the loss of what will, and must disappear in this world of passing time. The work of remembering this timeless, (but unwanted) truth is the same as connecting yourself to the love of an all-embracing, fearless awareness... that never dies.

We can imagine, and then wish for what we hope will make us whole - fearless and free - but real wholeness, real spiritual freedom, is unimaginable, as is the inner path that leads us...

Never forget that no real spiritual effort is ever in vain, even when you’re given to see some low estate into which you have fallen...

Topics covered:  You will never be in command of anything that you don't want to understand. A new understanding changes your relationship with what you want to understand; You serve what you do not understand, and you presently do not understand pain; If we knew that we were inwardly at war all the time, then we would be more attentive to each moment that we enter into.

Classroom Talk: 7/31/2002 - Part 1: When you can look a worry or anger in the eye and tell it, "There is nothing between us anymore," then you are well on your way to the birth of a new kind of freedom in you that nothing can oppose or ever take away from you! Part 2: Our problems, what amounts to our lives defined by these protracted burdens, become weightless the moment we cease to identify with them...