Topics covered: When without falling into any form of despair, depression, or regret, you begin to lose all interest in looking for yourself in any image or belief - because the taste of yourself no longer tastes good to you - that's when you begin to wake up; The mind sees in parts -- sometimes through our intellect, sometimes emotion, sometimes sensation; Lower nature is constructed so as to identify with the parts of the whole, not the whole...

Topics covered: The last thing we want is to be in the lowest place, even though every true teaching talks about one's salvation being found not in pride nor in any of the possessions we have acquired; Your life has its own teachings. You alone can receive what you have been given to receive. Life is not a race to win, but a school for your higher education; Arrogance is the act of pushing everything away that does not correspond with the image we...

Topics covered: Everything that there is to discover is already within you waiting to be realized by you; How can there be a life in which you "shall not want?" There is, but that life is not found on the level of this world of ambition and its consciousness; Attention is connection; connection is exchange; exchange is relationship; When life does not go the way that we believe it should...

Topics Covered: Our experience of life is intended to be an education so that we learn things we didn't know about ourselves the moment before; If we meet life caught up in a stream of thought, then there is no chance of being open enough to receive impressions; To see all there is means to be present to ourselves and unafraid because we stand in the shelter of the awareness that...

Topics Covered: "Made in the image of God" means that we human beings are the embodiment of all the forces that create and give life to all that exists. These forces are blind, and they have authority over us when we are unaware of their activity; Real beauty is not just in the beautiful object that is seen by the physical eyes, but in the realization that the observer is the observed...

Topics covered: There are experiences that are very clearly an indication of another order of consciousness; We all live in an invisible field where an immediate exchange of a certain kind of energy takes place between the observer and the observed; All reactions are registered in a field of awareness; The mind is active when it's busy trying to figuring out the choices it has to resolve a disturbance...

Topics covered: How do I deal with severe physical tension; Knowledge by itself kills inquiry; What's behind the question "how long do I have to go through this?"; We live from an autonomic level of consciousness; You can't separate what you experience from the consciousness that produces it; What it means to die to yourself; Negative states are ugly but they...

Topics covered: "Laying down your life for your brother" is an interior action; Physician heal thyself; Realizing I've been the progenitor of my own pain; The dawning of a new light within; Having the willingness to suspend your automatic reactions; Relating the game of chess to your interior life; We live from a nature that sees itself apart from life...

Topics Covered: Feeling like you are always in trouble; Worrying that someone is mad at you; Tells that we are lying to ourselves; The body manifesting a reaction going on inwardly; Awareness of anxiety through what the body is doing; Inner dialog and mental movies; Holding your breath...