Topics covered: The fallen state of humanity is such that it has fallen from the real into imagination, and imagination is where fear thrives; The fear in your life is inseparable from the life you have imagined; We have lived with fear for so long that we believe the lies fear tells us are true and necessary; There is a natural, necessary fear that is instinctual and has no sense of 'I' in it.
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Topics covered: New meaning is the same as new understanding is the same as new possibility; You must have patience with your inner work, but it must be a persistent patience; What we trust will lead us to an imagined liberation ends up leading us to the exact opposite; "I was born when all I once feared, I could love." -- Rabia of Basra (713 – 801); A false sense of self imagines and believes in a false sense of security.
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Topics covered: We presently believe that fear and anxiety are a natural reality of life, necessary in order to get what we want; Tomorrow is a time that does not exist apart from the level of consciousness that imagines it; The idea of tomorrow always comes with the idea that there is something that has to be protected; There can be no psychological fear without negative imagination...
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Topics covered: Happiness for human beings now is the momentary abatement of a fear; Worry is an instrument of fear, imagining what needs to be done in a time to come to find freedom from disturbances; Psychological fear does not exist outside of the mind's associations that validate the reality of the thing that is feared; There is no such thing as psychological fear without negative imagination...
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Topics covered: Being fearless is not about conquering fear. It is about a new relationship with the consciousness within you, in which you see and understand more about yourself; Whenever there is a disturbance that comes with fear, you try to think yourself into a fearless life. Begin to doubt your own rescuing mind; The mind starts to become quiet when you begin to realize that it is...
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Topics covered: The vast majority of what we think about is driven by fear, only we don't notice it because we believe it to be the normal way to live; How many things do you not see because of fear? Because you are thinking about yourself? Thinking about yourself and fear go hand-in-hand; Fear drives all forms of self-judgment and judgment of others; Ask yourself: If I know that...
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Topics covered: Real spiritual work is not about taking things, acquiring possessions to add to yourself; The fundamental difficulty in authentic spiritual work is that you must see things about yourself that you don't want to believe are true; Everything you tell yourself about fear and anxiety is the fear and anxiety telling you what to do so that the fear and anxiety can remain hidden...
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Topics covered: In the world of imagination there is no heaven, there is only hell disguised as heaven; The only thing that has authority over you is what you look to for a sense of self; A machine can never be free because it can only do what it has been originally programmed to do; A machine can only work within the confines of its own content; Freedom from the machine already exists...
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Topics Covered: We are not intended to live within and behind any kind of walls that limit our right to explore all of our celestial possibilities; We unconsciously identify with, and become captive of, self-constructed boundaries that are imagined by our consciousness; Our ideas, beliefs, and opinions are a kind of construction of an unconscious nature that prevents unfettered self-exploration.
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Topics Covered: Setting out on the spiritual path is not about achieving a result. We want to place ourselves on a path where there is a never-ending possibility of discovery and realization; At their root all negative states are connected to the fear of death. Not only the death of the physical body, but also the death of a cherished sense of self; An epiphany is the revelation of an understanding...
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Topics Covered: We cannot DO anything to create freedom. What we CAN do is understand that which takes freedom from us. Our reaction is usually one of doing instead of seeing; There is no captivity outside of ignorance of the activity of our own consciousness; There is no such thing as "I can't" when it comes to your spiritual life. What you are really hearing is the voice of an...
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Topics Covered: It is only in a real school that it is possible for a person to receive consistent new impressions. A new impression cannot be separated from a revelation about yourself. A new impression and a revelation about yourself are one and the same thing; Every real new impression only happens once. There is no such thing as a repeating impression; All impressions are spiritually...
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