Talk Takeaways

Imitation is fear, and the purpose of life that we learned from the world is imitation.

Fear is an invisible prison, but our minds see the prison as being the opposing conditions that we run into when we are looking for freedom.

You believe in your captivity because fear always tells you that you can escape.

The divided mind lives in constant fear of losing what it believes will make it fearless.

Thought always sees what it needs to see in order to confirm the existence of the thinker.

Life is not a race to win. It is a school for your higher education.

Every idea about what it means to be enlightened is a form of darkness.

Fear does not exist outside of time, and time does not exist outside of imagination.

Rushing is a way in which we try to avoid the very fear that is telling us to rush.

An addict is compelled to keep current conditions and patterns in place, which includes the addict who is addicted to a sense of self.

"Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there." -- Jalal al-Din Rumi

When the oasis that we run toward turns out to be a desert, the mind just imagines a new oasis, and on and on it goes.

What imagination runs toward does not exist without something that it is running from.

How can you learn the lesson contained within fear if you fail to show up for the lesson?

What will happen if you let the moment come and go without interfering with it?

Awareness recognizes and understands the activity of the divided mind.

Life is not asking you to become something. Rather, life is asking you to see.

Real values do not serve just one person. Real values serve the whole.