Topics covered: True exploration of your consciousness cannot be for the purpose of escaping from something, nor to confirm what you already know; The defintion of "insanity" is doing the same thing over and over again, and hoping for a different result. The same could be said about "addiction"; "Addiction" connotes the idea of unwilling service to something that is harmful.

Topics Covered: There is no such thing as a compulsive pleasure; We are not meant to spend our lives compulsively defending and justifying ourselves. Those things are addictions; Physical hunger and thirst are natural, but being hungry for approval is not natural; Every day we go compulsively looking for what our mind says we need in order to find fulfillment. What we long for...

Student Talks: 8/14/2020 - Key Lesson: Part 1: We can imagine almost anything save this one unimaginable exception: the dark walls that seem to close in on us in the midst of some unwanted moment are, in fact, nothing more than (parts of) a dark dream born of a mind so asleep to itself... it can't see it has unconsciously...

Topics Covered: Someone has to be the first; The healing of pain is in its revelation; Stop analyzing the pain and just see it instead; No reaction can heal itself; Do not oppose what opposes you; Every denial of the appearance of pain is the perpetuation of the consciousness responsible for it; Resistance to any unwanted condition is attributing power to it; If healing does not start with...

The more you imagine a problem, the more real it becomes.

The way we think of ourselves is a reflection of our past; Learn to live with what you see; Ideas are not action, knowledge is not wisdom; You suffer over your present understanding; Love never interferes with another person's life; All of your actions have ambition in them; There is no reaction without position; You are here to outgrow a level of consciousness; Real acts of will...

All identification is dependency; Awareness is seeing without a center; The mind is always trying to dissect life; Every wish to change something in your life is produced by fear; A thought has no substance, it's a representation of something; Fear is built-in to dependency; The way out of your pain is through humility; You must struggle with your weakness instead of use it as an excuse...