We have a nature that thinks about itself -- a nature that weighs itself on a scale that our culture has created and our thoughts have unconsciously adopted. Unexamined, this mind is a virtual torture device, keeping us locked within its own limitations. In the absence of practical thought (the only right capacity of the mind), there is always some painful reaction...

For the man or woman who persists with the wish for Truth/God to be first in life, there really is no such thing as failure.

When we are hurt badly, the higher lesson hidden in this trial is to recognize the time has come to let go of who and what we have been up until the moment of loss.

If you haven't noticed this yet about yourself, it's easy to see in others: we each seem to carry the weight of the world on our shoulders. The nature of this burden may change with age. When young, we feel the weight of having to choose a direction in life. As adults, we feel encumbered by all the perceived requirements of an active life: trying to control events, win acceptance, maintain rel...

Are failures in life inevitable? Does the Higher Power, once attained, see to it that we only succeed? Try to understand the difference between living from something within yourself, whose nature is contentment itself, and living from those parts of yourself that are forever seeking contentment. For the man or woman who persists with the wish for Truth/God to be first in life, there reall...

Topics covered: Nothing can change in our experience of life until there is a change in the understanding of our experience; The purpose of every event is to help us change our understanding, so that we don't exit events as the same person that went into it; If we learned the lesson in the moment, then we wouldn't have to repeat the same moment over and over again in the same way.

Topics covered: There isn't one moment in this life that doesn't come bearing gifts; It is possible to have an entirely new relationship with every negative reaction; Fear is the passive response to unconsciously resisting the object of our own negative imagination; Transcending our consciousness begins with a new awareness of our consciousness.

Topics covered: How is it possible for a person to change from Dr. Jekyl into Mr. Hyde at the blink of an 'I'; The mind believes that if it can just get through the present condition, get it over with, then it won't be negative anymore; Humanity's consciousness hides behind the explanations and justifications that it creates in order to accomplish its agenda...

Topics covered: The moment that a reaction gets named you have been set up to have a painful moment, because that consciousness resists the very reaction that it has named; Revelation of resistance is the release from the captivity of that resistance; "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." -- William Shakespeare; An object or a condition cannot exist...

Topics Covered: Use the consequences of having been asleep to awaken to the consciousness that we didn't see before; What if my intention isn't to win?; Dreams are of the finite world; We are here to outgrow the idea that we need anything other than what we already are; Rebirth is the ultimate atonement; No dream can bring about anything other than the rebirth of the dreamer...

Topics Covered: The comfort of certainty is the conflict with the moment; False certainty and conflict are one thing; You can't serve two masters, you'll love one and despise the other; Stay awake, watchful, a witness to what "Real I" in you must go through; Everything the mind formulates as the next freedom is the next prison; Give up the idea of "perfect"...