Classroom Talk: 4/27/2005 - Life is a Gift, a Light given to us to be used -- not as a power to perfect what we have imagined is our good, but to awaken the one who dreams in darkness and through this illumination bring it into Perfection.

Our possibility for spiritual growth can’t be separated from our daily work to question, explore, and illuminate any dark thoughts and feelings that may confront us along the Way...

The spiritual body that alone can transform the pressure of unconscious opposing forces -- that learns to use them for the continued realization of its own innate perfection -- is further developed each time we struggle...

Spiritual wholeness is a living, timeless estate... inseparable from the Divine Light that reveals it in each passing moment; (it is) not a static condition... as in the imagined, painful idea of achieving some imagined sense of permanent personal satisfaction.

Spiritual liberation is not an attainment; real freedom is not an achievement, let alone the by-product of belief. (It is) a grace-granted realization that we are not who we’ve mistaken ourselves to be...

True spiritual strength is realized (only) in the immediacy of a revelation that sets the stage for its appearance, which means that perfect strength can never be possessed; it can only be received and actualized in the light of a consciously realized weakness.

Blaming conflict-filled feelings on any condition or person outside yourself is like getting angry at your shoes for being laced too tight. So here's an effective inner life step designed to help you grow and to develop greater spiritual strength: No matter what happens, never blame anyone -- or anything -- for the way you feel. Rising above the blame game is the same as learning how to be in...

Our spiritual possibilities in this life are as endless as is our willingness to intentionally meet, and then consciously work through whatever limitations we may discover along the Way...