Student Talks

Student Talks: on 1/11/2019 - Key Lesson: Next time we wonder how it's possible that someone doesn't like us, let us take a deep breath, and take a look at how we feel about them in that same moment. If we're honest, we'll see and understand two things at once: first, and perhaps most important: there are, in fact, parts of our nature that are not very likable....

Sometimes the very best thing we can do for those we love - or, for that matter, anyone we meet - is what we don't do to them!...

Finding a way to encourage others to persist with their wish to be free -- especially those from whom you can expect no "thank you" for the time you take from your own life to do so -- is the same as the work of setting yourself free.

If it's true -- which it is -- that we become what we love, then let us learn to love unwanted momentsthat love might replace our fear of them; so that for this conscious exchange, we may become the living proof that perfect love casts out fear.

Just because some times are harder than others doesn't mean that you have to treat yourself that way.

The more willing we are to see the truth of ourselves as revealed in each passing moment, and then do our level best to attend to its silent instruction, the more truth seems to "follow us around," making straight the Way.

Any time you do the work, inwardly, to remember - and then look for - the "higher side" of life, you ensure that "low moments" not only lose their power over you, but that who you are in these moments will be increasingly immune to the world of "thrills and chills!"...

Learn to fall in love with seeing what's Right, Bright and True... and the rest of your days on earth, even ever-after, become a journey of discovering what is nothing less than the best in you.

Here's the real reason a "coward dies a thousand deaths." By law, any fear we refuse to face always returns...until we finally learn its essential lesson: resistance ensures repetition, so that whatever we try to go around will come back around again.

True faith is not about whether the wind is at one's back, or in one's face. Faith is the willingness -- regardless which way the wind blows -- to stay the course until you cross the threshold of your Innermost Home.

Once you realize that you can't separate an imagined fear from the level of self that believes in what it has imagined, you are near the end of your fears.

Everyone wants to be enlightened - but few are those who will actually bear the interior flame required to illuminate the whole of oneself.