Topics Covered: Something higher is always trying to reach us from a part of us that we do not yet realize is already there; Patterns can't change themselves. Anytime we try to break a pattern on its own level, all that we end up doing is strengthening the pattern. In that way we are complicit in the continuation of painful patterns; Unwanted moments seem to stand in the way of what...

Topics Covered: There will never be peace until we each begin to understand the unconscious mechanism that is responsible for the conflict we experience; The consciousness having the negative reaction always blames something for the pain that it is actually responsible for; If we are having a negative reaction, then we must believe that we know the meaning of the moment...

Topics Covered: Presently our life is filled with trying to get what we want so that we don't have to feel any kind of discomfort; Every want that we have comes with a feeling that the moment should not be the way that it is; Of ourselves we do not possess the power to be at peace. We can imagine that we have that power, but peace is not something that comes as a result of something...

Topics Covered: You are the treasure you seek, but yet "you" are nothing like you think yourself to be; No painful negative reaction can be separated from an imagined sense of self. And there cannot be a negative reaction without resistance; SBS stands for "Shouldn't Be Syndrome." Something within us says that the moment shouldn't be the way it is as it interprets the moment...

Topics Covered: How do our negative reactions begin? There is no negativity that is not rooted in resistance to the way that the moment unfolds; We get negative when events don't go precisely the way that we have imagined. This means that, without knowing it, we come into these moments carrying images; Everything that happens in any moment unfolds within us...

Topics Covered: All judgment is born out of fear. There is no judgment until someone is first afraid of something; Fear is the source of hatred and conflict between human beings; There is no form of self-destruction without there being fear behind it; As long as we remain spiritually asleep we are a machine that is complicit in the harm being done to the world...

Topics Covered: We throw ourselves, of our own free will, into a prison of feeling powerless. The fear of being powerless is self induced; We all suffer from POUR Syndrome: "Prisoner Of Unconscious Resistance/Reactions"; Humanity is the evidence that there is no peace in a "time to come"; All pursuit of power in order to be free only empowers what is powerless within us...

Topics Covered: There exists a freedom that can't be won through struggle; Everything that is whole is unspeakable, and cannot be fully comprehended by the intellect; What one thing in our life always shows up unannounced and ruins any moment in which it appears? The answer is: negative reactions; The pain of not wanting a moment IS the pain we experience in that moment...

Topics Covered: When you find yourself surrounded by raging thoughts and feelings that are closing in on you, remember yourself with the understanding of "You go on without me," and watch those thoughts and feelings flow down the river; Our present level of consciousness is really just one level of being, one mansion in the great kingdom of existence...

Topics Covered: Our hope is not in things seen; Being the witness of useless suffering; Use the fear of the future to find the fearless heart; Accept the moment as it is given as an act of higher Will; We don't want to fix ourselves, we want to see ourselves; Dismissal of habitual reactions; Awareness of the play of creation; Replace the idea of "faster" with "more aware"...

Topics Covered: Re-experiencing, reliving a memory; Mind wanting to escape the sound of itself; Real love doesn't punish the one who loves; Love doesn't separate; Love doesn't suffer over what was; Agree to consciously suffer our own consciousness; Remain the witness of consciousness instead of trying to change it; Being in the crucible of the crisis; See that the promise of...