Long before it's possible for us to be spiritually reborn, we must first awaken to ourselves. Awakening is the sudden realization that somehow or other what I took to be the only world isn't the only world. Because the way the mind works now, it looks out and there's just this world with you that messes with it and me that wants it right. It's all one world to me.

Any person who believes in a passage to heaven as their right for merely professing some belief -- or who asserts he or she is already being one of heaven's bulwarks -- is not just deluded but constitutes a real danger to anyone foolish enough to believe in their assertion of having such privileges.

Topics covered: Anything that introduces you to your mechanical behavior is of the highest value; Learning to die spiritually before you die physically; Having a disability changes your values; Christ already lives in you; The world asks us to be many things, and the Divine asks us to be one; You will have given enough when you understand there's no "you" giving anything; Everything is...