Remastered Classic Talk: 04/27/16 - The present moment is the door of perception -- and if, when you look through it, you see something you recognize -- or otherwise think you know -- then all you're really seeing is a reflection of your self upon the mirrored surface of the door. The true door of perception opens... only into the unknown.

 

 

Classroom Talk: 8/18/2024 - When, before our inner eyes, we always have someplace better to be, or find ourselves struggling to "add a cubit to our stature," we miss seeing two great liberating truths: First, all imagined destinations are dreams whose promised fulfillment fades the nearer we draw to them...and secondly, blinded as we are by our hope in this "tomorrow" that never comes, we miss seeing - and realizing - that our True Self is a field of possibilities whose riches are not only immediate, but everlasting.

Student Talks: 12/30/2022 - Key Lesson: How can we ever hope to be at peace with life when -- for the most part -- all we know to live for is the endless struggle to carve out a piece of it for ourselves?

Student Talks: 9/16/2022 - Key Lesson: Being convinced to worry over some darkness that "might be" just around the corner is an unseen interior shell game; (it's) a "play and lose" operation run by parts of us that know if they can't keep us resisting some impending fear they will have no choice but to disappear!

Classroom Talk: 10/28/2020 - Tension is a part of creation itself; its boundless energy is a feature of every relationship in all worlds. The unknowing masses resist its manifestation, and wear themselves down trying, in vain, to escape it. But the Wise know how to use it... to remain aware of their part in a Divine awakening that is the fulfillment of Life.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of June 22, 2015. Much in the same way Mother Nature calls the salmon back to its native stream, to spawn and then to die there -- that through this sacrifice the great cycle of its species may be renewed and start again -- so has the Divine seeded within your soul a longing to return to its celestial headwaters; where -- by a similar sacrifice of laying...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of December 30, 2013. Painful tension is nothing more than unconscious chronic resistance (to life). This means one's suffering isn't the evil spawn of some dark condition unfolding outside of oneself, but rather (it's) the unhappy effect of identifying with a deeply divided mind that believes the best way to deal with unwanted moments is... by not wanti...

Whoever can begin to see the truth of the following insight, whoever will work to understand all that this revelation implies, will soon be free of fear, impatience, and painful anxiety: The mind asleep, to itself, is the trap...ceaselessly ensnaring each (sense of) "self" it continuously creates via an unseen set of opposites that, in turn, create the illusion of time and space that each cor...

No one knows half as much as they pretend to, and -- because of life's uncertainties -- the other half of what they know only holds up half the time. Do the math: at best, these people are only 25% certain 25% of the time, which means the rest of their life is spent fearing you may discover their secret self-doubt. Set yourself free of all those who would tell you what you should be doing with...

If we could only see that any self that sits in judgment over us is not the perfected nature that it passes itself off as being, but is secretly an imperfection in us that only appears true to us due to the unexamined contrast it creates in us by its accusations, then we would at last strip off the mask of our accuser and be free to realize the truth of ourselves without self-destructive conflict.

Starting out, the aspirant believes that his struggle is just to awaken himself. But, as he awakens, the aspirant sees an increasing need to serve others in their wish to be whole and free, as well. Then dawns the day when the aspirant realizes that his struggle was never just for himself, or for the few he met along the way, but to take part in the awakening of human consciousness itself: to...

A wild stallion was captured and put in a wood-fenced compound bordering the open country in which he once ran free. His first week in captivity he showed all the wildness of a once-free creature now penned; but in the weeks that followed, even the dried grasses once refused as food became not only tolerable but even agreeable.