Spiritually speaking, the Light of awareness is the universal solvent.

Hoping that a memory from “days gone-by” can show you the way out of any unwanted moment -- and into a safer time to come -- is like finding yourself lost in a dark canyon, and following the echo of your own plaintive voice...

Topics covered: Reality, inner and outer, is a lot bigger than our thoughts about it; We have an innate longing to belong to something greater than ourselves; Thought is the limitation, not the way to transcend limitation. Identification with thought stops exploration and discovery; The greater our resistance to any unwanted moment, the bigger that moment seems...

Revelation is not a product of time, rather (it is) the sudden appearance of an impersonal, timeless awareness within us. These “ah-ha” moments do not provide intellectual answers; rather they provide, by grace, a glimpse of a higher order of awareness...

Topics covered: You get caught in "thought pockets"; Identification is exclusion and isolation; Awareness starts with being in your body; You can't give yourself the gift of life; Impatience hides itself through insistence; There needs to be freedom to see before there's freedom to be; Everything that comes out of a moment is already contained within it....

Topics covered: You can't explain the mystery of yourself to yourself. You ARE the mystery that needs to be investigated. You don't already HAVE the answer... You already ARE the answer: What if real life has nothing to do with explanations, but instead has to do with participation?; The wise man because wise because he stopped answering his own questions; The antidote is in the venom. The answer is in the question...

Topics covered: How do I deal with severe physical tension; Knowledge by itself kills inquiry; What's behind the question "how long do I have to go through this?"; We live from an autonomic level of consciousness; You can't separate what you experience from the consciousness that produces it; What it means to die to yourself; Negative states are ugly but they...

Topics Covered: The opposites are actually a cicle; "Will" cannot be separated from "condition" in sleeping human beings; There is a direct relationship between purity, clarity, humility, and the Kingdom of Heaven; Poverty is my greatest wealth; We have a gluttonous nature that thrives on feeding on negativity; Real emptiness is within a world that's completely full; Humans have being; Becomin...

Topics Covered: The physical body is not interested in the experience, it's interested in the sensation; Your life is meant to be a kind of spiritual Disneyland; The fulfillment of any wish depends on the nature that makes it; Find a way to vary your routines; Gratitude is inherent in one's awareness of their own existence; The mind has an incessant need to be touched; Prayer is the beginning...

Topics Covered: Discussion about the lunch exercise; All untethered boats eventually sink; Every light eventually goes out; Without attention there is no connection; God is not in touch with humanity, he's in touch with a few individuals who are in touch with humanity; You are the hope of the world; Desire is not love; We're not meant to spend our lives serving ourselves; The man or woman at p...

Topics Covered: If you can't put down negativity then it wasn't you who picked it up -- it picked up you; What you think is your will isn't really your will; The deconstruction of self is not the end but an integration; The ladder of Being is actually the ladder of Will; Every center has its own will; Before real will acts it witnesses; There's just one will; There is nothing new under the sun...

Topics covered: Spiritually speaking, anytime you think you've reached the end, you're not there yet; It doesn't matter what direction you set off in because, through your willingness to address the results of your efforts, your course will keep adjusting; Clarification comes through action; Difference between a 'producer' and an 'effect' -- an effect has a sense of self connected to it, where...