Topics covered: Our present level of consciousness believes it is natural and wise to not-want what we are experiencing; The sensation of life is not life. Believing that sensation is life is a trap perpetuated by a level of consciousness that pursues sensations that it is already familiar with because it produces a familiar sense of self; You don't need to imagine what it is like to be spiritual, because -- when you remember...

Topics covered: New Year's resolutions always revolve around wanting to keep the so-called "good" parts of what I call "me," and not-wanting what I call the "bad" parts; If you want to have a new life, you cannot bring old wants along with you; There is an innate longing to be in relationship with what cannot be expressed in words; True spiritual teachings are not recognizable by the consciousness that has faith only in things seen...

Topics covered: We believe that thought is somehow one and the same as who we are, but that could not be further from the truth; In taking thought, everything about our relationship with the present moment is divided; "We do not have to understand new things, but by dint of patience, effort and method to come to understand with our whole self the truths which are evident." -- Simone Weil

Topics covered: The cost of freedom is letting go of the idea that there is a "you" that is going to find freedom in a time to come; It is not life that is hard, but there is something in us that has hardened itself against life; Your mind will never be able to take you past the point that it cannot go, but your mind can understand that fact; Every desire has a corresponding identity attached to it...

Topics covered: The consciousness that is the present state of humanity keeps trying, in vain, to create a kingdom of heaven for itself; When we take the thought to be the thing, then we have belief in the thought; People who act cruelly are themselves acting from an inner cause that they know nothing about; The more you want something or someone, the more that thing or person will resist you...

Topics covered: "A house divided cannot stand." This is referring to the consciousness that sets itself against what it sees as being separate from itself; Negative reactions are the evidence of an unseen contradiction in our consciousness that puts us into conflict against people and events that are blamed for the negativity; Whatever is offered on the level of thought as the resolution to conflict is the...

Topics covered: There is no condition outside of yourself that is responsible for your negative reactions; What you want is presently the most important thing in your life. But the truly most important thing that you have been given is your attention; As goes your attention, so comes your experience. As goes your experience, so comes your sense of self...

Topics covered: You cannot experience life in a new way unless you first SEE life in a new way; You cannot separate your sense of self from what you are attending to in any given moment; When you have your attention on something you don't want, then you will also have an experience that you don't want; The only reason that you get caught in any unwanted experience is because you...

Topics covered: Not wanting to see something that is right in front of you is willful ignorance. You have to be willing to see the truth that you don't want to see; There is no such thing as a painful want that is natural; The constant state of "I want" goes before you to make the straight places crooked; When you meet a moment that you don't want, you immediately know what you DO want in...

Topics covered: Plans to escape from unhappiness come from a consciousness that is arranging events for the very purpose of making you unhappy; Beauty is not something that a human being imagines. Beauty is a relationship with reality that already exists in consciousness waiting to be revealed; When you really see something, then all questions about what you...

Topics covered: There is a ceaseless exchange between what is celestial and what is common, and to be where that exchange takes place is everything; Human beings are always running and pushing so that they can get everything they need in order to rest. That day will never come for that divided consciousness; Your humiliation is your salvation. "Humility" may be the least loved word in the world today.

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...