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...

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...

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?"...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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: 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: 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...