Topics covered: The world's definition of peace is a state in which there is nothing interfering with what we want; One reason that we are drawn to nature is that everything in nature is in balance, everything is in its place as it should be; What you see as being out of place is not the problem. What is out of place is the level of consciousness itself that sees everything outside...

Topics Covered: We are already a part of something whose power cannot be denied, even when it is refused; Never run from the fear of feeling powerless, and if you don't run you will be given, by grace, the power to see that everything you feared was a lie; The feeling of being powerless is in fact a doorway into a relationship with something that can never be made to feel...

Topics Covered: Be present to the parts of you trying to pull you down; Don't stop and pick the flowers... smell the flowers, but keep going; The depth of the illusion is nothing to the light that reveals it; There is no such thing as compulsive pleasure; The very action of thought separates us from what it wants to acquire; Without thought everything is clear; Thought is the disturbance and not...

Topics Covered: If you are against something you cannot change; The opposites are secretly complimentary; You can't win freedom, you can only be free; You can't judge without resistance; Avoidance is the continuation of the consciousness that resists; We are not our thoughts and feelings; No one is free who worships an image or an icon; All understanding is in scale...

The greater percentage of what we call being "productive" in life is -- in truth -- little more than our unconscious complicity with a lower level of self that lives to build castles of sand... even as it watches and waits, fearfully, for a wave that will come to wash it away.

Topics covered: Something in me wants to keep me in fear and humiliation; Why do I feel more negative during the holidays; Feeling like a fake; Resisting unwanted moments; How do I take the high road and forgive someone who hurt me; I want to help my family cope with the death of a loved one...