Classroom Talk: 5/31/2002 - As long as we willingly jump on board that dark train of thoughts and feelings called our discontentment, desperately trying to reach the end of the line where we hope happiness awaits us we will never discover that all such discontentment is a lie and that its desire to find fulfillment outside of one’s own heart is a part of that lie.

It is no stretch of the imagination to say that many days most people wrestle with some form of discontentment about their lot in life. Add to this an equal if not greater amount of time spent searching for the solution they think will "cure" this confliction, and it might surprise us how pervasive runs this human pastime of trying to dodge these feelings of being discontent...

The more we believe, as we are inclined to do, that there exists something outside of us with the power to make us happy and whole, the more attached we become to these imposter ideas and those deceptive desires that weave into our hearts.

Our daily dose of unhappiness isn't due to a lack of choices over what is needed for us to be happy and free, but this discontentment is the creation of an unseen nature within us whose only life is born of creating and considering choices that never quite satisfy its needs.

Classroom Talk: 10/18/2002 - If we will do the right thing, in the right moment for the right reasons, there is no other possible outcome than for us to know Rightness. Such Rightness is its own reward; it is free of conflict because it is whole, and being whole it never seeks confirmation, which means it is fearless. These facts reveal that the path to True Happiness is not an up-hill road to be struggled over each day, but is a place found within our own heart...

Classroom Talk: 11/27/2024 - I've been a pirate...looting the hearts of any I could board and pillage for my pleasure. I've been a priest...consoling, and confusing any I could deceive and profit from by my practiced piety. I've been anyone...that everyone wanted me to be: I've danced for a drink, and lied without hesitation to ensure others my word is good. The truth is I've been everyone...but myself.

The first step in harmonious relationships is simple: We need only realize the spiritual truth that we cannot meet someone whom we are not like in some way, even if we don't actively express what we don't like seeing in him or her. The deception is that we're sure we're unlike everyone except for those who match the images we have of ourselves. And so it goes that we live from -- see our lives...

So much competes for one's attention today that we barely notice how the more we struggle to win what this world says we must have to be happy, the more we not only lose sight of ourselves, but of a simpler happiness that once was ours when we were less well-versed in our desires.

Part I: It is never the unwanted condition itself that has us stuck, but that we are unknowingly hung up in habitual thoughts and feelings about our situation. To be New we must learn to see ourselves from that part of us that knows who we really are, our True Nature, was not created to be a captive of anything! Part II: Just as the echo of a voice that has shouted out, "Stop m...

The next time that life comes knocking with what you "don't want," instead of allowing yourself to be dragged through the old round-around, make these three new choices, and watch how they dismiss the darkness knocking at your door: Your first choice (always!) is to come wide-awake to yourself. Remember: Your new aim is to not allow old, mechanical reactions..."

Everyone wonders whether or not there is one great secret for truly successful living. There is. And it is not a secret....

The following higher insights are rarely discussed among the spiritually uninitiated because of the measurable effect that their strong medicine causes in the soul. But not only do they help summarize a prescription for a free life, they also present the case for why we need such a healing. Welcome these truths into your mind and watch how their refreshing view of reality leads you to that unc...