Security

We all want the comfort of knowing that there are things we can count on, that there is something in this life permanent. Yet, everything seems to slip away from us; people, places, and events all change. And as they go so does our sense of security, leaving us once again seeking something to give us a permanent sense of well-being. There is a cure for this seemingly endless longing. It is a spiritual one...

We all want the comfort of knowing that there are things we can count on, that there is something in this life permanent. Yet, everything seems to slip away from us; people, places, and events all change. And as they go so does our sense of security, leaving us once again seeking something to give us a permanent sense of well-being. There is a cure for this seemingly endless longing...

How is it possible for a man or woman to be both prisoner and, without ever knowing it, his or her own prison maker at the same time? Each time the me mind envisions some future event, it's actually trying to find a feeling of security for itself. But the only security this lower nature can ever know is imaginary. So it has to dream up one scene after another where somehow you'll come out a winner...

Topics covered: It is the things that we are identified with -- that we don't know we are identified with -- that are the basis of old fears; It should be obvious that the purpose of our life cannot have anything to do with what the mind thinks the purpose of life is about; It is what you discover about this life -- not what we take from it -- that is meaningful and everlasting...

Topics covered: Every true teaching is designed to help you see that, spiritually speaking, you cannot truly do what you think you can do, ie: complete yourself; Everything that happens in your life is part of the purpose of your life. What is in your way is part of the Way; Much of our lives now involve an incessant and exhausting search for a sense of security that cannot be assailed by any condition.

Topics covered: Negative reactions create more negative reactions. And there cannot be a negative reaction without something that is blamed for it; The divided level of consciousness is put in its proper place in the moment of seeing that you are not different than what is being judged; We need new self-knowledge if we are going to become self-shocking; Every negative reaction is the...

Topics Covered: Resistance is bondage. "Not wanting" is a form of bondage that can't be separated from its opposite of "wanting"; Within every imagined want is contained the fear that what we want will not come; There is another order of our own being that cannot be made less than it already is; Silence is not just the lack of sound, but it is backdrop and foundation that allows...

Topics Covered: If you want to be safe, you must have concluded that you are not; The condition that we are being convinced to avoid is a conclusion that we have reached about it; Come to end of all that you can do for yourself, but don't let it end there; Thought can't understand the holy spirit; Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven; Love does not make a single demand...