Topics covered: Your hope lies in seeing that you have no hope; The instinctual part of you does not communicate through thought; When personality no longer has the energy required to suppress itself, it runs amok; You can never help anyone you're afraid of; Unnaturalness always creates unnaturalness; If people understood Christ's teachings there would be no Christianity; The true meaning of l...

Topics covered: Discussion of the lunch exercise to notice what you feel as you hear the background music; The Buddhist hungry ghost; The work is almost ceaseless preparation for the purification of the heart; We are not just dominated by negative emotion, something in us cultivates it; The greater the negation, the stronger the awareness; Opposites must be reconciled by a third force; If you'...

Topics covered: It requires resistance to keep imagination real; The difference between higher and lower emotion; Lower emotion is the illegitimate child of a reaction; In higher emotion there is a sense of oneness, not 'I'; Real love bears all things; The more pure the impression, the more clear the action; There's nothing uglier than someone clinging to something; Attachments are an extensio...

Topics covered: A sleeping human being cannot do anything new; Every thought creates a payment due; There are no random events -- what seems to go by in the stream of time is part of time; Second force automatically produces awareness; The transcending of a limitation isn't in one of the opposites -- one awakens, one dies, and then one is reborn; Awakening is the gradual formation of a consist...

Topics covered: You are taking part in a great mystery that can't be solved, it can only be lived; The mind has to lend itself to losing itself; Awareness is born out of contradiction; Creation is a ceaseless, eternal contradiction; There are planets with beings that have no purpose at all; If you have two loves, you don't have one, but if you have one love, you can love everything equally; Th...

Topics covered: The Work produces a part of you that values seeing your failures; Failure releases you from an illusion you had about yourself; Everything you think about is to try to reconcile something that has disturbed you; The devil's curse and blessing is that one can never be content; Stillness produces instantaneous order; Awareness of an internal contradiction negates it; Something in...

Topics covered: There's a difference between intellectual understanding and emotional need; 'Little I' doesn't exist without the mind that brings up the opposites; To be a human being is to be a seed; A human being is a living disturbance; Your pain is sown into you by God himself; The existence you've been given is in eternity; Having life move through you vs. being moved by life; I can't vs.

Topics covered: Discussion of the 'Dead I' lunch exercise; Your true spiritual eyes are centered in your heart; As you learn and grow you are subjected to less and less laws, spiritually speaking; Stop taking psychological selfies; One simple impression can turn into a life-saving event; It is the nature of energy to degrade; The only thing that blocks your way or troubles you in any moment is...

Topics covered: How do I make an intention without having expectations about the results; Your work is about finding a freedom you can't give yourself; Disturbance is part of your existence; You don't change a problem, you outgrow the nature that views it as a problem; You have to walk through the door without knowledge; Seeing the limitations of your mind; Real gratitude is never about anythi...

Topics covered: Discussion about the lunch exercise to notice the feeling produced within you by the music before taking a bite of food; The only reason life ever seems boring is because you're asleep; We want to be content and happy in the quiet; Each moment is a reflection of the nature that receives it; Real feeling doesn't exist without exterior awareness; Resistance is the rejection of re...

Topics covered: The path of negation is what leads to the end of identification; Dropping a state is not the same as transfiguration of the character that embodied the state; Anything talking to you is an act of imagination; Unless you come to completely doubt yourself, you will never grow; Loathing oneself is the flip side of loving oneself; Doubt should be your instant companion in the face...

The body can be disciplined. The mind should be trained. But, spiritual realization requires that one's wild heart be surrendered.