Topics covered: When does the world change? When you change the way you see the world; The blessed ones through the ages have tried to convey the idea that you need new eyes to see what is in front of you all the time but that you don’t currently see. And the reason you don’t see is because the impressions that are intended to produce a real change are deflected by all kinds of buffers — beliefs, conditions, longings.

Topics covered: Give people something to be against in the name of the greater good, and they will not notice that they are actually against the greater good; Integrity is relationship with a Conscience that does not belong to any one single individual; People fight over the meaning of love, not seeing the contradiction due to being so identified with their position; Have you ever noticed that no matter how many things you seem to reconcile...

Topics covered: Useless struggle is the effort to maintain the self that believes outside conditions to be the cause of its experience; The mind that cannot see itself is forever set against itself; The sole/soul purpose of all true teachings is to get an individual to see that nothing is missing; Our present level of consciousness sees transformation as a process of becoming, through the acquisition -- in a time to come -- of something that is missing...

Topics covered: It is wise to seek immortality because time defeats all other ambitions; The greatest prize hidden within our inner life is victory over death. Uncovering the treasure is a matter not of intellectual knowledge only, but of awareness, relationship, participation and understanding; The desert in spiritual stories represents the endless useless struggle to escape from conflict, not seeing that the attempt to escape is the perpetuation of the conflict.

Topics covered: To say that these are unprecedented times is to forget the fact that human consciousness repeats itself over and over again, which means that the world has been in its current state many times before; Notice that whenever you are thinking about someone that bothers you, you are at war with that person; Whenever you struggle against the clock, in a rush to get somewhere and get things done, you are at war with time...

Topics covered: Every thought that you have about yourself, and what you should do to improve your place in life, is a waste; You cannot complete the moment without at the same time completing yourself. They are one and the same thing; If you keep repeating the same experience, it means that you have not really learned the lesson that comes with the experience. Spiritual lessons ride in on the back of events...

Topics covered: The consciousness that is the present state of humanity keeps trying, in vain, to create a kingdom of heaven for itself; When we take the thought to be the thing, then we have belief in the thought; People who act cruelly are themselves acting from an inner cause that they know nothing about; The more you want something or someone, the more that thing or person will resist you...

Topics covered: We are always in a struggle of some kind, hoping that our struggle will bring an end to all struggles. But one who struggles in the field of the opposites struggles in vain; There is a level of consciousness from which you can see with great clarity that left and right, up and down, right and wrong are not separate but always appear together; The consciousness that opposes life through negative...

Topics covered: There is no such thing as the winning side of an argument, because the reason we argue with others is that we are in distress; The mind complains, "You are giving me an experience of myself that I don't like." And so we argue because that part of us is sure that we must change others in order to change our present experience. But our experience of life is nothing but the experience of ourselves.

Topics covered: When you are afraid and you listen to what that fear tells you to do, then fear is your guide and your god; Until you know what is beyond fear, you will not know what is beyond death, because there is a connection. If you live in fear of death your whole life, then you do not have a life; Human beings are the very source of the thing they say makes them suffer.

Topics covered: Worry never gives back a return on the investment of time, energy and tears that we pour into it; The moment a disturbance comes up, the only thing we know to do is remand ourselves over to a consciousness that can only worry about what to do about it; The general reason why we worry is that something in us believes that things are not the way they are supposed to be...

Topics covered: Do you know a "friend" who is always promising some order of freedom, but who is never able to deliver on the promise? You would drop that friend immediately, wouldn't you? So why won't you drop the interior "friend" that is always whispering promises in your ear?; Anything that you see in nature is not separate from the nature that created it. Anything that is created is...