Painful Patterns

Topics covered: Part of our interior work is to discover that there is a part of us that does not want the pure water of truth; There is no imagination in the manifestation of any natural desire. On the other hand, all psychological desires are the product of imagination; There would not be a desire to complete ourselves -- through acquiring something outside of ourselves -- without the belief that there is something missing...

Topics covered: True exploration of your consciousness cannot be for the purpose of escaping from something, nor to confirm what you already know; The defintion of "insanity" is doing the same thing over and over again, and hoping for a different result. The same could be said about "addiction"; "Addiction" connotes the idea of unwilling service to something that is harmful.

Topics Covered: Every mechanical psychological reaction is ignorance passing itself off as intelligence; There is no intelligence in an unconscious, mechanical reaction; There is no finding liberation through avoidance; Our habitual reaction in an unwanted moment is inseparable from the painful pattern that the reaction blames and resists; Something in us always knows what it wants...

Topics Covered: Real life is actually set up to help you succeed at becoming a better human being; The lesson in an unwanted moment is an unexpected gift, and the gift is the realization that it is time to make a real change in our life; There is a level of consciousness that keeps covering up moments that it doesn't want with what it does want. The only real solution lies in the...

Topics Covered: The only thing that troubles us about another person is what we want from them; If you don't take responsibility for what you think and do, then you won't learn the lesson; Our true nature is a living relationship with spirit; No one who hurts us knows what they are doing to themselves; Identification is bondage; See that the pain is intrinsic in your own consciousness...

Topics Covered: Thoughts are the past; Thoughts are always incomplete; Be the witness of the judging consciousness; Seeing is not the same as thinking; Who and what you really are is immeasurable; Measuring yourself is misery; See what it is like to complain all the time; Real consciousness will not contradict itself; We do not escape a fear, we see through it; The present moment is...

Topics Covered: Conditioning is the extension of a consciousness trying to escape itself; Work to be conscious of a nature that never stops conditioning itself; The habitual tug of emptiness saying, "fill me"; Judging yourself is part of repetition; The moment we don't want is the level of consciousness that fears it; Crisis is a revelation factor; Identity and image are a singularity...

Topics Covered: Relationship between mother and child; What did you have to do with your own birth?; We meet people from a limited understanding of ourselves; Whatever is buried in you is food for your development; Judgement is based on resistance to an instantaneous reaction of a pain we don't know what to do with; Deep and hidden pain carried over from childhood

Any form of suffering or conflict that tells us to look into the past for its "cause" -- or to the future, in the hope of some imagined freedom to come -- isn't just useless, it's wasted.