When we're negative -- in a "power struggle" with someone over whatever is being contested -- we're reduced to being little more than a puppet. We're literally "strung out" -- momentarily animated -- by unseeing forces in us that can only do one thing: mechanically oppose whatever seems to oppose them.

Around and within us reside invisible and powerful laws that rule over reality in all its infinite forms. These forces of instant righteousness, or perfect balance, are always at work. Nothing escapes their imperceptible presence; everything yields to the weight of their judgment. We've all heard the phrase, "What goes around comes around." This principle of karma, the idea that...

Topics covered: The consciousness that is the present state of humanity keeps trying, in vain, to create a kingdom of heaven for itself; When we take the thought to be the thing, then we have belief in the thought; People who act cruelly are themselves acting from an inner cause that they know nothing about; The more you want something or someone, the more that thing or person will resist you...

Topics covered: There is nothing in the universe that can stop you from learning the truth of yourself; Every moment of our existence is the expression of, and the possibility of completing "our" karma. There is no such thing as bad karma; Our consciousness sows the seeds of its own suffering, and then sets out to resolve the very conditions that it sets into motion...

Topics Covered:Real freedom cannot be shattered. What kind of freedom is it if it can be taken away?; The farther one travels, the less one knows; The outer world is not separate from the inner world in the usual way that we think; We usually think of karma in the sense of a painful consequence for having done something wrong. The word "karma" is more closely connected...

Topics Covered: If we want to change the world we see, then we have to change the way we see the world; Karma is not just cause and effect the way that we usually think of it. Karma is also permanently tied to our character. The actions that we take cannot be separated from our character; We are invited to participate in a self-organizing, intelligent, loving universe....

Topics Covered: If you will persevere, you will begin to experience moments in a new way; What you see about yourself is stolen by a part of you that causes you to suffer over it; Our present level of will belongs to the opposites; Talking to yourself is an attempt to reconcile what has been disturbed within you; Conflict is inherent in comparison; The Divine is not in you, you are in the Divi...