Topics covered: New meaning is the same as new understanding is the same as new possibility; You must have patience with your inner work, but it must be a persistent patience; What we trust will lead us to an imagined liberation ends up leading us to the exact opposite; "I was born when all I once feared, I could love." -- Rabia of Basra (713 – 801); A false sense of self imagines and believes in a false sense of security.

Topics covered: If you respond to a truth that you have read or heard, it is because there is a corresponding part in you that is a reflection of that truth; Resistance comes before any negative reaction. And the source of unconscious resistance is unconscious comparison; Whatever it is that resists any disturbance is already there in our consciousness before the event. The disturbance simply stirs the nature that resists it.

Topics covered: There is no better use of your time than to invest it in self-study; Peace is not something that you can buy, possess or pursue. Peace is a relationship with something that already exists that has no fear in it; Nothing that you can imagine can set you free. You are owned by the thing you imagine will set you free.

Topics covered: Happiness for human beings now is the momentary abatement of a fear; Worry is an instrument of fear, imagining what needs to be done in a time to come to find freedom from disturbances; Psychological fear does not exist outside of the mind's associations that validate the reality of the thing that is feared; There is no such thing as psychological fear without negative imagination...

Topics Covered: We have become accustomed to caving in at the onset of anything that seems to threaten us, believing fear's interpretation of the moment; Who you really are is not separate from the meaning of the moment, and therefore never needs to ask, "What does this moment mean for me?"; All forms of psychological fear are useless suffering; Why is it that fearful...