Topics covered: You are meant to be the master of your interior house, which is a responsibility that you've been given as a gift by the Divine; The spiritual path is not about arriving somewhere imagined or earning a reward. What we are after is entering into a new, higher relationship with life that already exists; Until you build on a foundation that is true, everything that you build will be shaky.

Topics covered: There is no more important time for you to do your spiritual work than when you least want to do it; The whole of this work is being willing to remember, when you don't want to remember it, that you had set an intention to be a certain type of being now and not later; Spiritual work begins when the question dawns on you: Why are there so many things that can so easily make me negative?

Topics covered: Spiritually speaking, only the "dead" try to prove that they are alive. The real gift of life is to know that you have been given a life; The consciousness that frames your experience, describing and interpreting every event, blocks you from being aware of that consciousness itself; A negative reaction to an unwanted moment always tempts you with a fight or flight response...

Topics covered: The old idea of turning base metals into gold is a metaphor for the internal process of turning what is base in a human being into something more valuable; The usual first reaction to any unwanted moment is one of resistance; We don't fear the actual moment, but instead we fear our mind's own interpretation of what the moment means...

Topics covered: If you are going to be skeptical, then be skeptical about the inevitability of the pain and suffering that comes with struggling against the world; There is useless struggle, and then there is useful struggle. The proper kind of useful struggle is to peer into yourself so as to discover the truth of yourself; We are captives of our ideas about what it means to be free.

Topics covered: What we take to be certainty is really uncertainty masquerading as certainty; A person's entire destiny can be changed by the willing reception of a truthful idea; Negative reactions are difficult to let go of because when they come along there is no part of the reaction that says, "There's a painful negative reaction"; Observation of a negative reaction allows us to consciously doubt it.

Topics Covered: When we are in pain, physically and/or psychologically, there is usually no awareness of anything other than that pain; There can't be any healing for us as individuals as long as we are fooled by ignorance that continues to pass itself off as wisdom; A conscious human being will not hurt him or herself; The entire concept of "getting through a moment" is ultimately fueled by...

Topics Covered: There is no such thing as a compulsion that is pleasurable; If every solution to our pain has proved to be useless, then the suffering that compelled us to seek the solution was equally useless. Not only are the solutions to our pain false, but so is the "self" that dreams them up; A problem may go away, but the nature that creates the problem does not go away...

Topics Covered: Something higher is always trying to reach us from a part of us that we do not yet realize is already there; Patterns can't change themselves. Anytime we try to break a pattern on its own level, all that we end up doing is strengthening the pattern. In that way we are complicit in the continuation of painful patterns; Unwanted moments seem to stand in the way of what...