The divided mind looks for difference; it ceaselessly judges all that it sees in order to confirm its false (and fearful) perception that it's separate and apart from life. But the awakening mind... sees within itself a living symmetry between all things above and below, and knows this similarity to be the framework of Love.

Classroom Talk: 4/2/2023 - There is no reward for love, let alone for being "loving." Either love ITSELF is the reward, or it is not.

The development of unconditional character can't begin without the practice of Presence, including the sacrifice it demands... because what is unconditional character other than the soul's ability to reflect and reunite itself with the Light of Love from above... from out of which radiates all that is Timeless, Righteous, Constant and True.

Part 1 Your true nature is fearless because it lives for one reason only: to be the unflagging instrument -- moment-to-moment -- of whatever Love asks it to be. Part 2 The outcome of any relationship in life is inseparable from the level of awareness of the one entering into that relationship.

The only sorrow that has no end is the one born in the flames of secret self-love -- since one never tires of not being the undisputed center of the universe; whereas the sorrow born in realizing this sick self-centeredness is soon replaced with an unending comfort called freedom from self.

To know what you will possess after all that you have loved passes -- as it must -- look no further than how your "love" passes with the conditions that lend it its life. The foolish love foolishly, and suffer a fool's fate. Be wise; choose each moment to remember the one Love that neither ends...nor ever forgets you.

I recently watched a documentary where a popular singer gave a rousing performance of John Lennon's song "Imagine" at a religious gathering. By the time he brought the song to a climactic end, thousands of people were caught up in a frenzy -- crying out in a unison of heated passion over love and its possibility for bringing peace to a weary world. But, as should be well-evidenced by now, spir...

No one who loves the Divine -- who embraces the truth -- need ever fear what life brings down the road; remember: the effects of passing time must, necessarily, act upon what is created; that’s what time does. But within us lives something Timeless...

As your relationship with spirit strengthens it acts as a wedge and becomes a source of woe to the nature that it reveals. But just as you understand that the arborist loves the tree that he prunes, you come to appreciate the blows of spirit's sword upon you.

Here is the real reason why so very few ever realize a conscious relationship with the Divine: higher Love is consummated only in the awareness and acceptance of one’s own spiritual poverty...

Only what is imperfect in us wants to punish (the) imperfections that it sees in someone else.

Conscious Love is the Divine interior act of intentionally suffering the pain and sorrow of those we meet along the Way; it must include our willingness to consciously sacrifice any part of us that wants to avoid, or otherwise look away from this suffering... simply because it makes us momentarily aware of our own.