Whenever painful events happen, they tend to fall on only one of two sides of a person. The first side is the denial side. When turning this way, refusal rules. Regret, self-pity, and endless explanations generally follow. Or, the unwanted moment falls on the angry side, where the turning is to burning. Resentment rages. Hatred and feelings of betrayal mushroom into....

Topics Covered: Fear is poverty, and it doesn't matter what the fear is about; The depth of my fear is the depth of my poverty; The psychological pain we experience is not outside of us, but the deception is that it is; We have to die to who we have been in order to be reborn; Control is chaos; Unconscious duality is conflict; There is no reason for the moment outside of the...

Topics Covered: The wave is a momentary expression of something much greater; We would not be able to experience movement without the presence of stillness through which it moves; Movement and stillness are not apart from each other, they are a unity; Seeing is coming into a relationship with a being within which everything already awaits; Identification is blindness...

Topics Covered: We live from a book of recurring reactions, which is not the book of life, but the book of this earth; We live in a world the size of our remembering; Let the dead bury the dead; We cannot serve two masters; We cannot complete ourselves through something outside of ourselves; The memory of our true nature includes the awareness of the consciousness...

There is only one reason why we become emotionally negative, let alone surrender ourselves to its dark and debilitating embrace: We have forgotten that we have a choice as to what we love, and whose company we keep, accordingly.

Agreeing to feel sorry for yourself is like slipping off a boat far out at seaand, just as you're falling into the water, grabbing the anchor to takewith you so you can always have a souvenir . . . to help you rememberyour time on the boat.