What we must learn to see -- whenever we start racing around to resolve some problem that we can't stop thinking about -- is that the faster our mind wants us to run after the freedom it imagines eludes it, the more of a captive we become -- held fast in the web of our own conceptual confusion.

We work very hard to correct conditions that are really no more than secondary outcomes, and not the real problem at all. We fight a daily war to protect ourselves against enemies that, in fact, never are responsible for the pain we feel. The unhappiness we feel is the bitter fruit of a lack of self-understanding. In our confusion we do many things that are self-harming. We do not deliberatel...

The ability to justify your negative states and the actions they give birth to is, in fact, weakness masquerading as a strength.

Topics covered: awareness, waking up, clarity, confusion, ingrained, habit, unconscious...

What we must learn to see -- whenever we start racing around to resolve some problem that we can't stop thinking about -- is that the faster our mind wants us to run after the freedom it imagines eludes it, the more of a captive we become -- held fast in the web of our own conceptual confusion.

The following eight points are essential spiritual truths. Individually they represent vital lessons that must be learned along the Path to Real Life. Collectively these same truths hint at the promise of a spiritual power for which there is no substitute: The certainty, compassion, and quietude of a mind filled by the Light of Truth. For the best results read each of these separate truths...

The sudden onset of any painful confusion has a single source: it is the dark and negative effect of a mind unaware of its own contradictions. For instance, how can there be any conflict -- or confusion -- over what any moment wants to show us about our present nature, without there being some part of us that refuses the revelation? Learning to be aware of such contradictions (in our own consc...

Topics covered: No feeling, no sense of self; You don't change the whole -- being whole IS the change; The end and the beginning are connected; Your mind is clouded; You only feel pain when an illusion you had has been shattered; Right pride has gratitude in it, false pride has glorification in it; A true shock obliterates our explanations and justifications; The idea of 'I' has become a psych...

Part 1 Confusion is the distance between what real life is showing you about yourself, and your refusal to see the same. Part 2 To realize the thought nature is powerless to resolve the incomplete experiences of life that it creates in the first place releases you from the illusion that by revisiting those same moments -- with thought as your guide -- that you can escape the confus...

The music of (the) mind -- its harmony, or not, is expressed by the order of its thoughts through which it is instrumented. Confusion is dissonance; clarity is flow.

Confusion and compulsion are secret partners in the pain they produce as the level of "self" they conspire to create seeks, desperately, a way to avoid seeing its own inevitable captivity.

Anyone who refuses to face their fears will never know the true nature of faith, let alone its power to dispel any form of worry, confusion, or painful self-doubt.