Talk Takeaways

Spiritual parables and symbols are intended to convey celestial principles that words cannot explain.

One of the chief deceptions that we fall for is that something is missing from our lives, and that we will be able to acquire it in a time to come. As a result, we don't want anything that gets in the way of that ambition.

We spend our lives trying to possess what we perceive to be good, and avoid anything that is judged to be bad.

Psychological time does not exist without temptation. And all temptation is about escaping a past that is painful, and searching for a future that won't have that same painful experience.

The feeling of fear comes with the feeling that something is stalking you, something that wants to prey on you.

We are stalked by time, which becomes our master when we follow the temptation to seek for liberation somewhere outside of ourselves.

The desperate search for freedom in a time to come is captivity. You cannot serve time and be free. It is a consciousness attempting to escape from the experience of itself.

Conflict is the result of you trying to liberate yourself from the effects of time.

See where you are trying to complete yourself in a time to come, where you are trying to escape FROM a past bad time and INTO a future good time.

When you seek for freedom in a time to come, you are cut off from the awareness of timelessness.

Whenever you feel stress or anxiety, you are trying to get away from something that is believed to be responsible for your pain.

Useless suffering does nothing to change the consciousness that is suffering over what it doesn't want. Useful suffering exposes that consciousness as it tempts you to go back into imagination.

Exercise: I'm not going to try to escape this moment. I'm going to let the experience of the moment reveal the qualities and characters that are producing it.

The pure experience of consciousness is prayer.

You cannot have the idea of success without the simultaneous idea of time.