Topics Covered:Worldly inspiration can be beautiful, but it can only take us so far. Real inspiration is connected to one's realization that worldly ambitions cannot complete us; The older meaning of perfecting oneself was connected to the idea of completing oneself, completing a journey; Seeing the futility of the path of trying to complete ourselves is the same as stepping onto the true path...

Topics Covered: Being misdirected from the path; You are on this planet to understand the nature of suffering; The purpose of conscious suffering; We are the ground of all that exists; Mistaking a reaction for the only reality there is; Life is a journey in letting go; Everything you see is a part of your own consciousness; Stepping into the unknown; The Divine has already given you everything.

Despite our resistance to it, no unwanted moment in passing time -- in and of itself -- is ever "wrong", or "out of place." Our incomplete understanding of the reason for its appearance not only tends to color such moments "dark," but our unconscious identification with this false conclusion then acts to drag us down into that same imagined darkness.