The true nature of anything -- whether a newly opened leaf or a fearful thought or feeling -- is inseparable from what it serves.

Fearing failure, he fails; being willing to fail, he succeeds in freeing himself from the fear of failure. Being free of the fear of failure, he stops resisting whatever seems to oppose his will. He succeeds in all the days that follow because he's learned the greatest lesson that earthly life has to offer: when his will is the same as the will of Heaven, nothing in the universe can stop him f...

Part 1 We can either set ourselves to the task of learning what life wants to teach us about ourselves, or we can resist these revelations, and spend the rest of our lives fighting with the outcome of (our) ignorance. Part 2 Agreeing to meet each moment of life with the right intention of using it for our higher spiritual education ensures that nothing can go wrong for us in that s...

Classroom Talk: 8/11/2024 - Conscious persistence transforms unconscious resistance into Revelation.

In the great movement of the Whole -- in its enfolding eternal living and dying -- all things must obey the laws of creation and destruction in their ceaseless rounds. This means -- if we wish to be free of unnecessary suffering -- that we must understand that the cycles of creative energies will wax and wane; and that we must not resist these times when nothing is seen to grow in us because...

Classroom Talk: 5/14/2023 - There is no struggle in seeing; and certainly, whatever is being observed does not resist being seen. So, if and when there's some instant form of painful resistance to the appearance of any given moment, it's always due to the nature of the seer.

Classroom Talk: 2/10/2019 - Part 1: The contempt inherent in any sense of (unconscious) familiarity is innate in the false sense of security it seems to provide. Part 2: The real meaning of any unwanted moment can never threaten the truth of our innermost Self. In fact, the present moment reveals what it does...