Exercise: As soon as you feel yourself resisting something, remember that resistance is actually the avoidance of suffering. Be determined to find out what happens if you don't avoid the moment. Accept the invitation to enter into a relationship where suffering is already a part of a greater reconciliation.

Science now knows what enlightened sages have been saying since time began: The true nature of all things is change. Everything is always becoming. Which means nothing can be truly considered without taking into account those forces driving these invisible changes. What science has yet to learn is that these governing forces working behind all becoming possess their own intelligence, and th...

According to our wish and willingness to give our love to another, there returns to us -- in greater measure than given -- the love we have given. It is, quite simply, the secret of the ages: Love rewards the lover. Isn't it true? The more we love someone, the more love we come upon in our own being; and the more we experience these elevated states in ourselves, the higher we long to go!...

Negative states don't want to leave. They don't want to lead you to the end of a relationship with them. They want you to follow them so that they remain your guide, and essentially your god. That's what negative states want. So every time you're angry or frightened or worried and those thoughts and feelings are talking to you and you're listening to them and doing as they instruct...

Comes the fall, particularly near its end, and the ground on the little mountain top where I live is literally golden brown with all of the oak leaves that have parted ways with their seasonal parents. It's so beautiful to watch the thousands of leaves fall like slow motion snowflakes...finding their way to the forest floor and their temporary resting place there. Then comes the wind, and th...

Topics covered: Review of the double attention exercise; Right now your attention is the instrument of personality or instinct; Division at the level of the opposites is conflict; Exercise to not entertain negative thoughts about other people for a week; Identification steals your relationship with stillness.

All forms of psychological fear are created and sustained out of an uninvestigated relationship with a lower part of us that lives in perpetual fear of its own death. Until we understand that this fear is not "our" fear, but exists because of an unseen attachment to an imagined identity, it will continue to have authority over us.

Seeing the spiritually lost state, the interior bankruptcy of other human beings, can be used to accelerate your own relationship with the Divine, but only if you understand that you are not on this earth to judge the nature of others, but to transcend it.

Classroom Talk: 2/19/2003 - The one who lives in spiritual slavery earns a slave's wages, but blames his poverty upon the master that uses him instead of acknowledging that his unwanted condition in life is born out of giving his consent to live in such a wrongful relationship.

Classroom Talk: 6/21/2024 - Useless resistance feeds useless suffering, even as useless suffering feeds useless resistance; but it is we who -- in our ignorance of this unseen relationship -- are consumed in the endless service of an unconscious nature that cares for nothing other than its own continuity.

Classroom Talk: 4/13/2022 - You are the answer to the question you ask. To have this true self-knowledge -- born of higher self-understanding -- leads to a life without fear, a faith that grows daily, and the patience it requires to perfect your relationship with the Divine.

Part I: Self Realization is the restoration of our essential relationship with the Life Divine. Part II: True contentment finally dawns within us once we see that the only thing troubling us is a set of mistaken ideas about ourselves that we have come to call our own.