What do we have to do to change the balance sheet of our lives so that for every measure of impatience and intolerance there may be at least an equivalent sum of compassion and consideration? How do we learn to use our relationships with others to realize a new kind of relationship with ourselves wherein we are able to discover that who we really are is all we need to be? Your willingness...

Has there ever been a time in your life -- a period of real self-enriching growth -- that wasn't connected to a risk you either willingly undertook or -- to a time of inner trial where there was no other choice for you but to take a risk? Of course, there's only one answer to this question, and it's one recognized as being true wherever you may ask it in the world: The prize of greater wisdom...

• It is difficult to accept correction from other people. How do we judge the quality of correction when someone offers advice or criticism? I look at the unhappy lives of many of the people giving input, and think that their advice isn't worth much if they have such difficulties. On the other hand, I might be missing some valuable correction. Any advice?

Topics covered: Being present is the same as the capacity to do the right thing at the right time, without needing thought; "The truth about the action must be known and the truth of inaction also must be known; even so the truth about prohibited action must be known. For mysterious are the ways of action. He who sees inaction in action and action in inaction, is wise among men." -- Bhagavad Gita

Topics covered: Whatever you deny in life is secretly the denial of revelation of yourself. Resisting the moment kills the possibility of revelation; When you deny/resist something in life, that thing is perceived as being your enemy; Fear does not exist apart from the nature that fears it. Fear is a mutually dependent relationship, in that fear cannot exist without a fearful self...

Topics covered: Use your reactions as a springboard to revelation instead of allowing the reaction to use you; Freedom from a negative reaction cannot come by identifying with the second reaction that counsels us on what we need to do about the first reaction. It is a chain of reactions that cannot escape itself; Reactions unconsciously identified with lead to actions taken by an unconscious self.

Topics Covered: True ideas interfere with the agenda of what is untrue; We are taught early in our lives that we should know the answer to every question. Otherwise there will be a punishment; We believe that the sooner we can answer the urgent question our mind is asking, the sooner we will be released from the pain of not knowing; The pain is in the question itself because the question...

Topics Covered: We don't want to go through what we will awaken in another human being if we were to do what we know needs to be done or said; The understanding I have of my negative reactions is given to me by the consciousness that lives in fear; Every reaction comes with an explanation for itself; What's true never needs to defend itself, and what's false never can defend itself...

Topics Covered: The only thing that troubles us about another person is what we want from them; If you don't take responsibility for what you think and do, then you won't learn the lesson; Our true nature is a living relationship with spirit; No one who hurts us knows what they are doing to themselves; Identification is bondage; See that the pain is intrinsic in your own consciousness...