Key Lesson: When you no longer want to look at the world through the eyes of anyone else, you will at last know what it means to see.

Key Lesson: 
We may ask the same question about unwanted moments in life a thousand times and in ten thousand different ways, but until we discover what those moments are here to reveal, we remain without an answer.

Key Lesson: 
We know, but don't understand. 
We will, but yet we can't.
 We try, but miss the mark. How do we know these things are true?
 The evidence is right before our eyes
, Yet still... we don't see.


Key Lesson: There is no tension or anxiety in being watchful, while stresses of all makes and models are inherent in the illusion that it's possible for us to be in two places at a time.

Key Lesson: Learn to silently watch the sound of thought; if you are quiet enough you can observe it stumble over itself as it tries, in vain, to escape the fear of its own shadow. Now you know what not to follow.

Key Lesson: Most people are so afraid of dying they are unable to see that agreeing to identify with any imagined state of self is itself a form of death unfolding in slow motion.

Key Lesson: Nothing real lives outside the flow of life except for an imagined self whose sense of "I" consists of insisting that life never deviate from the direction it imagines will lead it to freedom.

Key Lesson: It's impossible to separate some false action in life from the pain that it produces, so that the more we learn to consciously suffer that pain, the more clearly we begin to see into and through the false nature responsible for creating it.

My body is at war with passing time. The heart out of rhythm, let alone how to rhyme. Yet, something watches...

Key Lesson: There are as many memory-paved roads promising a new life as there are old thoughts trying once again to escape the consequences of themselves. The tragedy is that every road built by memory eventually circles back to the same familiar destination, because the traveler has never changed.

Key Lesson: 
Whatever storms you are given to face on your long journey back home, work to remember this truth... and be assured the day will dawn when you will know the unconditional freedom you seek: Your struggle is with yourself, and yourself only.

Key Lesson: 
Whatever storms you are given to face on your long journey back home, work to remember this truth... and be assured the day will dawn when you will know the unconditional freedom you seek: Your struggle is with yourself, and yourself only.