Topics covered: Anxious thoughts about what to do in an unwanted moment IS the unwanted "moment" that you are struggling with; To know better than to not-want what you are experiencing is to see that all of the actions involved in not-wanting are futile. To know better is to recognize that you have been there in that same place, not-wanting your experience, a million times before...
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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...
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Topics covered: We are dominated by reactions on a daily basis, but the real problem is that we do not know that we are dominated; Unconscious resistance is the life-blood of the false self. Resistance is what keeps the false self alive; Some sort of self-compromise comes out of being dominated by the conclusions of negative reactions; A condition cannot be resisted unless something is certain that it knows what it is...
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Topics covered: The sleeping mind convinces us that something outside of us is to blame for whatever feeling -- "good" or "bad" -- is coursing through us at any given moment; The sleeping mind is always trying to find itself in conditions outside of itself; Resistance nullifies all of the higher qualities and faculties that we have the potential to be in relationship with...
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Topics covered: The divided state of our consciousness is always struggling in some form of contradiction; Desire itself is a formulation of the opposites; The original definition of the word "Mammon" pertained to an endless desire for possessions; The wreckage of desire are the psychological strings that come attached to any desire that we are not aware of; A negative reaction knows exactly what is the cause of...
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Topics covered: If you believe that you can lose your freedom, then you never had it to begin with; We are that which is used by the Divine, or we are not. If not, then there will always be an anxious attempt to achieve what freedom is imagined to be; Conflict in nature strengthens the whole of nature so that it comes out it more complete. Conflict for human beings always leads to more conflict and weakness...
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Topics covered: Any day that goes by without see something new about yourself is a wasted day; You cannot be receptive to new impressions when you are talking to yourself. But it is not really YOU that is in engaged in the conversation; Talking to yourself is the activity of a divided mind that is trying to reconcile the conflict that it created in itself; Anything that engages in a conversation about "what if?"...
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Topics covered: One of the miracles of genuine interior work is that we come to no longer be afraid of our own pain; Every moment contains within it a revelation of the consciousness that you have entered into the moment with; We have to understand what it means to not just meet the psychological pain, but to go beyond it; We end up in more psychological pain every time we avoid that kind of pain...
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Topics covered: When you are afraid and you listen to what that fear tells you to do, then fear is your guide and your god; Until you know what is beyond fear, you will not know what is beyond death, because there is a connection. If you live in fear of death your whole life, then you do not have a life; Human beings are the very source of the thing they say makes them suffer.
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Topics covered: Your experience of life cannot be separated from what your consciousness is attending to in each moment; It seems natural to give our attention to whatever it is that asks for it. This is how we so often end up experiencing so-called unwanted moments; The unattended mind never stops looking for something to judge; Familiarity breeds contempt as the mind revisits and resists...
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Topics covered: Life contains a mystery that you're drawn to -- it's the mystery of yourself; Agape is a type of love connected to giving yourself up as a higher form of sacrifice for the love of another. It doesn't add something to you, it costs you something - only then do you find yourself being given something in return you couldn't have received any other way...
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Topics covered: There are three forces that are essential in the action of creation: an active force, a passive force, and a reconciling force; Is there any painful moment in our lives that is not preceded by resistance to something?; There can't be resistance without something in our consciousness that describes the moment and blames its pain on something outside of itself.
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