Topics covered: The only reason that people hurt others is because they are in pain themselves; Judging another person, even if only in your own mind, is a form of punishing that person; There can be no object without a subject. There can be no sound of a tree falling without someone who hears the sound. There can be no feeling of irritation without someone who feels the irritation.

Topics covered: We say we want to be free of our suffering, but the life we currently live ensures the suffering will continue; Attention is connection, so that you are always connected to what you are attending to. Connection is relationship, which is a form of union between the observer and the observed; Perfect self-command would mean that you could not be overcome by any negative...

Topics covered: The human being is the source of every mystery there is, and the human being also holds the answer to every one of those mysteries; The mystery of our relationship with God is not solvable by thought; Wars begin with individuals having lost sight of the source of conflict residing within themselves; It is upside-down to believe that the source of your experience...

Topics Covered: We are born into a world in which we are taught to fear suffering; Fear of suffering comes with the idea that there will be a time to come in which we will no longer suffer. Fear always creates the idea of a time to come; The only thing that the unconscious nature knows to do with suffering is to create a "tomorrow" to escape it. Suffering is inseparable from a nature that has...

Topics Covered: Egotism and self-love produces useless suffering; Useless suffering cannot be separated from useless, unseen resistance; The more we resist something, the more we suffer, believing that the resistance to what we want to do or be will somehow liberate us from what we don't want; The more you talk to yourself about why you suffer, the more you suffer...