Whoever doesn’t know himself, suffers uselessly for the sake of ignorance. Whoever works to know himself, agrees to suffer for the sake of wisdom. Whoever becomes wise, slays the suffering born of ignorance...

The "healing" we need, the sense of wholeness for which we search, has nothing to do with adding anything to ourselves. This needed healing comes from recognizing that the pain we have -- along with the suffering inherent in being negative over this pain -- is born out of participating in a series of illusions that have been handed down from generation to generation!...

Whenever we're anxious or rushing around, we are not in command of ourselves; seen clearly, it's evident that something within us has taken charge of our life and is telling us that if we can just get here or do this, then we'll be free. So we give ourselves, willingly, to this inner taskmaster whose hardened hands push us -- over and over again -- to rush, rush, rush. Why? "Because then w...

Topics covered: The mind seeks in time what can only be given in the present moment, which is a relationship with the Divine that is already being given to you; Tension is the gap between what you imagine you need and how long it takes to get there; You will never find peace in a time to come. It doesn't exist there. The idea of a "time to come" is the very disturbance in which you live because you believe in things that you don't understand...

We must all do certain things in life. This is a given. Duty is duty. But as long as we feel a difference between what we must do and what we give our love to, we will never know the abiding peace of a whole heart. There is only one way to love life; and that is to love the One who grants us the gift of it. It is easy to profess such a love and another thing, altogether, to enact it. Actions t...

There is a big difference between making a mistake, and thinking of oneself as being a mistake...

So much depends on our taking the time to listen to that Still Small Voice within -- to willingly enter, embrace, and take our place in its perfect rest...

Just as a wild squirrel runs round and round a large circular bird-feeder seeking, frantically, an entrance into its seed-laden floor without realizing it’s already raced over that same space 30 times... So we go on seeking...

Could it be possible that we are on this earth to spend our time worrying about money? Endlessly trying to figure out ways to please ourselves? Is there any remote chance that the reason we are here is to carry a hatred for years and years? To do nothing but think about ways to secure power, possessions, or approval? That doesn't make sense, does it? But clearly there...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of September 3, 2018. It is a strange characteristic of most human beings that we would rather feel anxious and strained about things over which we have no power, than to do the one thing actually in our power -- for whose conscious practice we would know the very peace we claim to be seeking. And that is: to ground our attention in the fact of the momen...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of August 22, 2016. The more some thought or feeling prompts you to rush, or pushes you to run toward a place where some anticipated rest awaits, the more you should work to slow down that you might see -- 'I' to 'I' -- the unconscious level of self that -- with one hand -- points to a 'peace just ahead'... even as its other hand is stirring up a sense o...

Freedom is what remains when we see -- with new eyes -- that we have never been anything else...