End the Dark Cycle of Discontentment - Part I...

Whenever you come to me I have no questions for you, only openness. Nothing needs be spoken. Everything is in its place; all is accounted for. But when you leave... I am like a harbor without a boat; a nest without a bird; a cup that somehow knows what it means to have capacity, yet that sits without any means to fill itself except for this flood of questions rushing to pour themselves into w...

The reason we resist virtually all endings in our life -- wherein we feel as though something has been wrongfully taken away from us -- is because these same unwanted moments leave us feeling terribly empty inside ourselves. In truth, it is this overwhelming sense of emptiness that we detest, and not the changing condition itself that we so habitually protest. So when things naturally come t...

At times it seems to me that the more I realize about the awesome nature of spiritual love, the more loneliness I feel in my current human relationships. I long to share my discoveries with others, but who do I turn to? A certain kind of loneliness, of feeling ourselves all alone, is a necessary portion of the path to the higher life. This sense of being alone comes out of realizing what...

Topics covered: It isn't your anger or fear or depression. They belong to a level of consciousness that is asleep to itself; The more we listen to conditioned reactions, the more we become a captive of that consciousness and suffer accordingly; The mind projects a negative and unavoidable tomorrow from its own conditioned content. It then reacts to its own projected image...

When you focus on feelings of loneliness, you become identified with the part of you that is producing the very condition you don't want. The more you talk to yourself about why you are alone and why people don't like you, the more you emanate an energy that actually creates distance between you and other people. The only way this comes to an end is when you start to understand that you are yo...

Topics covered: If you want to know why you don't have the kinds of impressions that change your life, it's because impressions don't come without humility. Humility is inseparable from true impressions; A single impression can change the entire direction of a person's life. When there is an actual impression, it changes the nature of what it has impressed itself upon; There are moments when, through an impression...

Student Talks: 7/23/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Nothing serves to create a greater sense of isolation -- a feeling of being cut off from life -- than being at the center of your own thoughts about yourself; where you live out your days as a castaway on the "island of self" upon which you have, unknowingly, agreed to abandon yourself. Part 2: No worldly acclaim, possession, or relationship with...

Topics Covered: No possession that we have given to ourselves has ever made us feel safe and secure; Any time you judge, hate or blame, it is because your self-made kingdom has started to crumble. And yet you must let your kingdom fall and do nothing to save it; Comparison comes out of imagination, and it is at the root of feeling that you are all alone...