Topics covered: If the Kingdom of Heaven is within, then there is no distance that has to be travelled and  time is not a factor in order to be in relationship with it; The need of the creation that is below can only be quenched by what is above it, which means there is an eternal relationship between above and below; What we call "Now" is where Heaven and earth meet, where what is below is acted upon by what is above, endlessly being made new.

Topics covered: The purpose of spiritual studies is not to create a new identity. The purpose is to change. But why is it so hard to change? Part of the problem is that we don't know what real change is; Real change is always due to a revelation, a shock that shows us a part of ourselves that doesn't want to change. Shocks reveal everything that is not real change but claims to be...

Topics covered: What we long for lives within us, but we are disconnected from it. We are disconnected because there is a will of our own that distracts us away from that connection; The unconscious nature immerses itself in conditions that provide it with a strong sense of self; The unconscious nature utterly rejects the impression that the observer and the observed are one...

Topics covered: There is a deeper life to experience if we can be in the presence of that life; If the Kingdom of Heaven is within, then where in the world are you going?; The appearance of resistance is telling us something about ourselves; In reality there is nothing missing in your life because there is no puzzle to solve. To understand that there is no puzzle to solve is enlightenment...

Topics covered: Freedom is the unconditional acceptance of the experience of yourself as you are in the moment; Transformation is not a process that involves a destination. Transformation is a process of conversion; Our consciousness cannot see by itself. In order to see itself it needs the light that dwells in the darkness; The purpose of inner work is to change your relationship with your own consciousness.

Topics covered: When you blame anything outside of yourself for the pain you are in, you are essentially blaming something from the past, a consciousness that is haunted by the content of itself; The future consolation that you hope to reach is a projection of the past; Even though a moment may seem familiar to the mind that is analyzing it, every single moment of your life is the first time that you have been in it.

Topics covered: There cannot be a bridge without awareness of the opposing shore and the need to reach that shore. A bridge connects possibilities; True spiritual lessons come along when you don't really want them. Revelations of the unwanted kind; The resistance of revelation is reincarnation. Revelation of what has been concealed allows a healing to take place; Hell is the endless attempt to rescue yourself.

Topics covered: Everything that you suffer from psychologically is the product of living from an attachment to an ideal that you don't know you live from; The consciousness that reacts violently to events cannot be changed through its own reactions; We cannot change the world we see around us until we change the way we see the world; The pain of resistance isn't caused by the condition or person being resisted.

Topics covered: There will never be anything that we ever discover that was not already waiting in our consciousness to be revealed; Everything that is waiting to be discovered was made to be discovered; Whenever you have an impression of any kind, what you are really experiencing is your own consciousness; Part of boredom is the belief that one has already experienced every impression that is possible...

Topics covered: The more that you participate in a dark interior dialog, the darker it becomes; Anything that says you have a right to be negative is set upon the destruction of your soul; You are never going to think your way out of a negative reaction. The more you think about why you are negative, the more negative you become; Creation never stops completing itself through the relationships...

Topics covered: The central longing of human beings is to reconnect with the Divine. We are disconnected from that longing when we are thinking about what we want; "The central urge in every atom, to return to its divine source and origin." -- Walt Whitman; We want to be connected to something greater than ourselves; We look in the mirror of becoming to tell us who and what to be...

Topics covered: The whole of spiritual work is to enter into a completely new relationship with yourself, a higher order of awareness that understands that what it sees is itself; The purpose of our lives is complete whenever we agree to make an intense effort at awareness of ourselves; Why is it that we have no awareness that we have a life until that life is taken away?