Topics covered: We presently believe that fear and anxiety are a natural reality of life, necessary in order to get what we want; Tomorrow is a time that does not exist apart from the level of consciousness that imagines it; The idea of tomorrow always comes with the idea that there is something that has to be protected; There can be no psychological fear without negative imagination...
Topics covered: As a rule, human beings know more about their iPhone than they know about the 'i' that is running their lives; It is never useful to judge another person. It is never useful to judge yourself; Nothing ever changes when you judge yourself. And judging yourself is not the same as seeing a true fact about yourself; The more that you judge yourself, the easier it becomes to judge yourself...
Topics covered: Anytime you are negative you are not seeing the truth of the moment; Without understanding you are under the authority of something that you believe understands the moment; When you make a mountain out of a molehill, you are suffering from TMS: Tiny Mind Syndrome; No moment is ever about just one thing. But it is about one thing to the 'I' that has been stirred into action...
Topics covered: Every creature in creation has a relationship with what is directly below it and what is directly above it; Every creature at its center is brought into creation with an innate desire to seek out the initial cause of that desire; "The central urge in every atom, to return to its divine source and origin." -- Walt Whitman; There is no such thing as static spirituality...
Topics covered: To find the purpose of your life is to find peace, but not the kind of peace that the mind is seeking, which is conflict disguised as peace; Everything that we see in the visible world comes out of an unknown invisible world. The visible is always being renewed by the invisible; We are a captive of the consciousness that is always attempting to define what it sees...
Topics covered: The urge to make a fresh start does not usually occur to us until we have hit bottom as a result of having been asleep in a dream; There is a purpose for every disturbance, but the sleeping mind does not know the true purpose, and so it searches its own library of content for an explanation; Disturbances would not be pushed away if we understood their true function...
Topics covered: The way you walk out of dark moments is that you stop walking into them. So-called dark moments cannot be separated from who and what you think you are in those moments; We cannot separate a dark moment from the unconscious resistance to that moment; What we call a dark moment cannot be separated from the level of consciousness that meets and reacts to that moment...
Topics covered: There is no more important time for you to do your spiritual work than when you least want to do it; The whole of this work is being willing to remember, when you don't want to remember it, that you had set an intention to be a certain type of being now and not later; Spiritual work begins when the question dawns on you: Why are there so many things that can so easily make me negative?
Topics covered: There is no such thing as a bad fact about yourself; What do we do when we don't want to see something about ourselves? The consciousness that resists immediately formulates a lie in order to protect itself from what it has just been shown about itself; "The unexamined life is not worth living." ~ Socrates...
Topics covered: There is an awareness that human beings have access to that transcends everything that moves through it; Reactions set thought into motion, but the reaction itself is neither good nor bad. All reactions, in their initial onset, are just the registration of an impression. It has no quality to it. It's just the awareness of a disturbance; Just because you are identified with...
Topics covered: What we have called our life up until now cannot possibly be the totality of our possibilities; The first person to feel any form of hatred or resentment is the one who holds it, protects it, and projects it; Unconscious choices are made in order to protect what that level of consciousness deems as being valuable; Truth is a pathless land and belongs to another order of being that is already in you...
Topics covered: What is the point of an experience if it carries us right back to where we started?; What is the point of experience if not to learn and grow inwardly through the experience?; You cannot separate how you experience any given moment from the corresponding sense of yourself in that same moment; We are presently always giving ourselves a familiar sense of ourselves moment to moment...