Intention without conviction is like a tree with shallow roots; it is easily up-ended, and ends up bearing no fruit...

Conscious suffering is the one true path (that leads) to a Life that is consciously selfless.

It seems as if doors are being shut everywhere I turn despite my intelligent, logical steps to present myself as a diverse and qualified candidate. If our wants become our haunts, then how can we aspire to work in a good or lucrative career? I keep saying I'm through making my mistakes, but the problem is, it's my past that has shaped my present and thus limits my future. If I'm not supposed t...

How can I tell which thoughts and feelings are the right ones to leave where I find them, and which ones to pick up? What if I make a mistake? I can sometimes go for two or three weeks without suffering from overt negativity. Then, out of the blue, I'll have a day where bad thoughts and feelings crawl all over me in a persistent attack. What's going on? I am so sick of my mind. Every thought I...

There is one question that has been on my mind for awhile. Since we are spiritual beings, don't we have the right to kill ourselves like King Saul in the Bible? Or are we imprisoned in the physical form until death desires to come? I desire death of the body now... can't I just do that? Since we do not belong in this world anyway, what is wrong with committing suicide? I'm afraid I will be swa...

Student Talks: 7/1/2022 - Key Lesson: Part 1: The secret entrance into the unknowable Divine can never be found in this or that thought, but only within a faith-based action that must be trial-tested before it can be counted on as unquestionably True. Part 2: The instant that we stir any element of time -- of thought -- into our experience of the present moment we have sown...

The real joy of a quiet mind is the realization of just how soul-stirring real life can be without having to identify with anything moving into and through it...

Topic: Stop Being Useful to Useless Negative States (10/21/18 Classroom Talk)...

Topic: Stop Being Useful to Useless Negative States (10/21/18 Classroom Talk)...

There is no emptiness; there is no fullness. There is only their dance, in an endless turning...

Student Talks: 11/17/2023 - Key Lesson: Anytime we struggle in the dark of ourselves -- trying to change our nature -- our efforts are misdirected; our real work is to learn to see by the light that dwells in that darkness, and to know the truth of ourselves, as (it is) revealed.