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: 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...

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...

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...

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.

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: 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: 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: 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...