Here is a simple, straightforward inner exercise to help you put these new secrets to work in your life, and with this, to transform the foundations of your world.

Topics covered: Spiritual exercises intentionally create second force; Identification is a set of chains that no one knows they wear; The first stage of spiritual work is realizing that there is something in you that's very busy living your life for you; You have two completely different natures within you; Any thought that dominates you will eventually become the sun in the system of that tho...

We cannot keep trying to "delight" ourselves, and develop ourselves -- spiritually -- at the same time, any more than we can have our cake and eat it too. But once we understand that the work of developing our soul is the only pleasure that never turns into some painful opposite... then our life becomes delightful to Heaven and earth, alike.

The reason why we can't see the impossibility of appeasing our hunger for "more" is because our lower nature is incapable of learning the fact that -- spiritually speaking -- "more" doesn't exist without "less." Experience proves, irrefutably, the presence of something within us that is -- for all intents and purposes -- bottomless. Where, in fact, the more we pour into it, the bigger becom...

GF: Welcome to our chat tonight. Before we start, I want to examine the interior Work at the root of our efforts to realize Truth and the real reason why we attempt what we do along these lines. Virtually everyone will admit they want a spiritual life; for starters this just sounds like something that one should have! But probe a bit deeper and by default, in stages, you will hear various dec...

Words cannot pay spiritual debt.

What are your teachings on spiritual immortality, the afterlife, and reincarnation? (From student correspondence)...

Topics Covered: Spiritual life is a ceaseless series of departures; The antidote is in the venom; In my weakness is Thy strength made perfect; The nature that wants to fit in is in a prison; Eliminate the mechanical man or woman, and you eliminate what is maniacal; "Give me liberty or give me death" is a fact of spiritual life; The emptiness we fear doesn't exist without...

Topics covered: You can only 'be the bridge' when you are present and in double attention; Forgiveness is the grace of being shown there is no 'you' the way you imagine; Real prayer is you consciously bearing yourself; There are no shortcuts in the spiritual life; When only one center is in charge, there's pain; A spiritual intention is the deliberate creation of second force; Everything you d...

Topics covered: Most people go through life fighting with their enemies and spending time with their friends; You are invited to do spiritual battle; You have to learn how to suffer yourself; Patterns are created when resistance meets the moment and deflects it; Don't take the easy way; Inside of you is something that has no love at all; No authentic work begins in your spiritual life until yo...

The rush to judge some character flaw in another human being is one and the same as the speed with which the false self races to hide from itself a similar imperfection.

Topics covered: There is no 'grey area' in the spiritual world; To 're-member' yourself you must first sense yourself; Our five senses create bridges between us and the physical world, and awareness creates a bridge to the spiritual world; Judgments are superficial, impressions are deep; Thought can't see the opposites at once but awareness can; Anything that isn't immortal is in vain; The fal...