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...

Topics covered:  Every day of your life is meant to include a new revelation of something that has always been within you, but that you were not aware of before; If you know so much, then why are you still so afraid?; When we are fighting with a moment, it is another will that has come into our life and acts in our name, but we don't know it.

Topics covered:  "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." -- C.S. Lewis; What is the nature of the emptiness that we have never been able to escape no matter what we have done?; Depression is the inevitable outcome of misunderstanding. It is a sin (missing the mark) to fall into depression because life has not given you what you want from it.

If we ever hope to know the nature of true spiritual peace, we must do the best we can to meet each moment -- as fully as possible -- from the whole of ourselves, and then witness the results... in silence. And, whether or not we hit the mark -- still strive to be patient and kind to others, as well as with ourselves. Nothing more, nothing less; keep it simple. So that, unlikely as it may seem - in this way we are awakened to a great paradox...

Topics covered:  Nothing that is divided will find wholeness in whatever it looks for to bring an end to its divided state; Hell promises Heaven if we will just do what it says to do in order to escape the conflict. Hell is what the mind makes when it looks for the Heaven it has imagined; You can't love the image that your mind has made of Heaven without fearing and wanting to escape from the Hell that has been imagined.

Topics covered:  One of the signatures of a small mind is the tendency to make mountains out of molehills; The sky has no reaction to the clouds that pass through it. But unlike the sky that allows everything to move through it, we identify with just about every passing thought; What we suffer over in any unwanted moment is not the event itself; we suffer over our reaction to the event. The reaction tells us that something outside of us is responsible for the negative experience of the moment.

Topics covered:  Our lives are spent trying to change our lives in an attempt to find some kind of happiness as it has been imagined. Yet after all of these years, we are still trying to change our lives; There is the kind of life spent trying to change your life, and then there the kind of life that understands the futility of struggling to change your life as you imagine it.

Learn to answer the true need of the moment by attending only to what it asks of you -- and, inseparable from this new intention, to drop any troubled question posed by a disquieted mind that can't see, let alone realize, how it disturbs itself seeking relief from its own unrest!

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.