Talk Takeaways

What we long for lives within us, but we are disconnected from it. We are disconnected because there is a will of our own that distracts us away from that connection.

The unconscious nature immerses itself in conditions that provide it with a strong sense of self.

The unconscious nature utterly rejects the impression that the observer and the observed are one.

In conscious suffering there is a silent immensity that there is no substitute for.

When a desire is denied, there then appears a conviction to re-acquire the object that is desired, and then we feel we must search for a power that will help us to obtain it.

The part of us that does not want to change is afraid of impressions that reveal the full depth and breadth of our complicity in the conditions that we say we don't want.

You don't have real comfort if you can be disturbed by anything.

Instead of the courage of our convictions, we have to have the courage of our observations. I have to cooperate with the shock that reveals something about myself. The shock is a timeless influence that is a Divine intervention.

The convictions we hold, that ensure that we avoid the shock of revelation, were not originated by us in the first place.

You not wanting a moment does not prove that the moment is a mistake. The mistake is avoiding the revelation that the moment brings.

We do not have the experience of being made new because there is a part of us that does not want to die.

The right action to take is always inherent in the revelation. Conflict-filled actions are the outcome of the avoidance of revelation, when the sense of self is not affirmed.

There would be no problem with accepting yourself as you are if you had not become convinced that you have to improve yourself. The popular idea of improving yourself does not exist without the idea of avoiding yourself as you are.

It is hell to meet life from something that is always telling you: "This isn't how life should be."