To be spiritually asleep in life is to experience the painfully mounting effects of our own causality and then continue to find fault with the world around us for our woes.

In one respect, everything about one's spiritual life is so terribly simple. There is only one time and one way in which to be still, and that is to be still. So the first thing is to understand that we don't need to stop the world. What we need to do is understand that the world whirling around us is the world of our own reactions. It isn't until we can start to see some of this that it be...

The seed of greatness is sown in an instant, but in this world of ours everything great takes time to grow. This means that patience, mingled with persistence, is the special nutriment that sustains all things great. Therefore, should we wish to win the great life, we need only add equal measures of quiet watchfulness to our spiritual willingness and a great goodness cannot help but flourish within us...

No one can hope to know the joy of true personal freedom without knowing the truth of spiritual peace. Freedom and peace are as kite and wind; the former remains grounded without the latter. This is to say that before we will feel ourselves being lifted above the conflict and illusions of this world, peace must become conscious within us. Peace is the foundation, freedom the form built upon it...

Part 1 The more spiritually asleep one is... the more instantly angry one becomes for having been awakened. Part 2 Hell hath no fury, as does some strong desire upon being interrupted.

Awakening to Real Life occurs in direct proportion to waking up from our own sleeping nature -- a fact which brings us face to face with some of life's oldest and greatest spiritual mysteries. The myth of the phoenix, the riddle of the sphinx, even the story of Christ's birth in a dimly lit stable of barnyard animals... all point to the existence of one nature dwelling in the midst of another...

Classroom Talk: 7/17/2019 May as well try and explain to a door that its total possibility is nothing more than being open or closed - by a force not its own - as hope that a sleeping human being will be interested in seeing the futility of a life consigned to the swing of the opposites.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 20, 2014. Here is something that almost never occurs to the parts of us that so often feel lost, alone, and without direction: in each of these dreaded moments we stand in the exact place where these same parts first suggested that we go... and that then took us there!...

Nothing glows brighter than the heart awakened to the unseen light of Love that lives within it.

The truth is that letting go is very simple and, above all, natural; as natural for you and I as it is for a tree to shed the heavy, sun-ripened fruit that clings to its branches. Why? Because both man and tree, in fact all living things, are created to drop what is no longer needed. For the tree, the falling fruit carries its matured seed to the ground. No unnatural force is necessary. In a similar fashion -- that is to say, under higher but equally exacting laws...

**As a result of my deepening interest in truthful ideas, quite a few of my friends feel I have gone off the deep end, and I have noticed a growing separation between us as I work more and more for my own spiritual freedom. It is not that I don't care for them, but rather I am becoming less concerned about the things that have always driven all of us. My fear is they will eventually want to ha...

The study of physics -- of the laws that govern relationships -- reveals some very telling spiritual truths, if one has "eyes" to see. For instance...every mass in the universe pulls on every other mass, and the strength of that pull is affected by distance. The greater the mass, the greater its pull. The greater the distance, the less its pull. Science is unable to explain exactly why this...