The reason that we do not give ourselves completely to whatever we are doing is because there is something in us that is afraid to do that. Like a governor on an engine that prohibits a vehicle from going past a certain speed, we have an internal governor that tells us that something terrible will happen to us if we dare to exceed the boundaries of what seems safe. The truth is that something...

Half measures produce half results, and half results are one and the same as lessons only half learned. Lessons learned only half way guarantee you're halfway there, once again, to repeating those lessons in your life that you have yet to learn!...

It's Love that reveals what love isn't... such as in that higher order of revelation when -- by grace -- we're given to see that what we've always taken to be a loving, or otherwise kind part of us is, in fact, secretly self-serving.

No reaction to a reaction can release you from the prison of patterns that enclose and sustain the life of the reactive self, anymore than yanking on the tail of a lion has the power to make it release you from its mouth.

Part 1 Those who dare to try what others only dream of... never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded. Part 2 Every real effort changes everything, even when it appears, for the moment, as though nothing has changed.

Hoping to help someone -- who loves to be negative -- see the harm of being identified with dark states, is like trying to teach a bat to appreciate sunlight, or a mud hen to preen in fresh clean waters.

All partial loves prove themselves to be just that; and in their inevitable passing we are always returned to that bitter-sweet realization that the love we long for can never become the possession of the self that longs.

There is an order of being that already exists as a possibility in the consciousness of humanity. This order of consciousness never gets caught up in trying to repair things the way our minds currently do. Because our minds are always busy trying to fix something psychologically, we automatically assume that what the mind is working on is worth fixing. The divided mind believes that there is...

All the many years of my first marriage, I showed one face for outside and another for inside so that I would not get into trouble. I know we shouldn't blame anyone else for our mistakes, but I did anything to keep the peace. Now I have a chance to meet someone else but I have no desire to lie, cheat, and deceive again. My trust has gone out the window. How do I start over and give this love a...

Key Lesson: We gaze upon a brightly colored veil -- see it flutter in the breeze of some passing event -- and call it the world.

Classroom Talk: 04/12/2026 - Passing time reveals the true nature of thought to be naught but grains of sand, endlessly spilling themselves out of – and back into – the nothingness from out of which they have come.

Let every search for a solution to the suffering you feel begin in the unlit corners of your own consciousness, and soon you will never again wonder "why" you feel the worries, fear, and the bitterness that you do.