When the doctor taps your knee and it suddenly jerks, you don't get upset with your leg for jumping out of control. Why? Because in that moment, you realize your temporary jumpy experience is an involuntary physical reaction. But, how do you view your emotional reactions when they start jerking you around? Not only are they hard on you, but once they're done, you're then hard on yourself wi...

The following eight points are essential spiritual truths. Individually they represent vital lessons that must be learned along the Path to Real Life. Collectively these same truths hint at the promise of a spiritual power for which there is no substitute: The certainty, compassion, and quietude of a mind filled by the Light of Truth. For the best results read each of these separate truths...

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...