Topics Covered: Who we really are belongs to a greater story than anything the mind can imagine; The mind only knows thought, and thought is the past; The pain in our lives is because we are cut off. We are isolated with no understanding that our present consciousness only knows one thing to do with unwanted moments, which is to resist them; We live in a world where negative...

Topics Covered: Letting go has nothing to do with anything that the mind names outside of itself that it says should be dropped. Letting go happens naturally with awareness of the consciousness that names and defines conditions outside of us; Is it possible to never again want to be anyone other than who you are? Yes, when you see clearly that no other person on Earth can be anything more...

Topics Covered: There is nothing more useless than looking outside of yourself to fix a pain that is not outside of you; All psychological suffering comes out of an identification with a problem outside of yourself that a part of you is trying to resolve; Real peace cannot be disturbed; Without disturbances there would be no consciousness of the world around us. But the natural and inevitable...

Topics Covered: There is no freedom without understanding the root of fear; We cannot have a problem that is not connected to the fear of losing something. Inherent in any anxiety-inducing problem is an unseen threat; Anything that threatens what we depend upon for our identity is perceived as an enemy; Fear is always trying to save itself from perishing. But listening to...

Topics Covered: In order to realize our highest destiny we first have to realize that we presently do not know what our true higher destiny is; Our highest destiny is neither found nor realized through the passage of time. We cannot complete ourselves in the world of passing time; We did not give ourselves the ideas and plans that we think we need to pursue in order to realize...

Topics Covered: There cannot be fear without unconscious desire. When there is no fear, then there is no conflict. And when there is no conflict, there is no unconscious desire; Without really knowing that we do it, much of our lives is spent trying to protect what we imagine we have; The fear we feel cannot be separated from the substance that we lend to the objects...

Topics Covered: All psychological fear is an unseen form of exile from the Kingdom of Heaven produced by the presence of an unsuspected form of self-ignorance; The only time we harm ourselves or others is when we are afraid; When does fear appear? Psychological fear appears when a condition -- that we were relying on for our happiness -- starts to change; Who and what we...

Topics Covered: We have been betrayed by our own ideas about what strength is. Real strength is not full of conflict and is not full of fear; In order for there to be a new strength, there must also be a new understanding of ourselves; No follower is free. Any sense of freedom based on an exterior condition eventually turns into a source of fear and anxiety; There is never anything practical...