Topics covered: Worry never gives back a return on the investment of time, energy and tears that we pour into it; The moment a disturbance comes up, the only thing we know to do is remand ourselves over to a consciousness that can only worry about what to do about it; The general reason why we worry is that something in us believes that things are not the way they are supposed to be...

Real self-freedom is not achieved by filling ourselves to capacity with imagined sources of happiness, but in learning to empty ourselves of the imaginary self and its secret storehouse of sorrows.

As you work to grow true in thought, heart, and in deed, the Truth will grow in you until nothing false remains. Then... will you begin to know the Truth and its gift of Freedom.

Topics Covered: There is no such thing as a compulsive pleasure; We are not meant to spend our lives compulsively defending and justifying ourselves. Those things are addictions; Physical hunger and thirst are natural, but being hungry for approval is not natural; Every day we go compulsively looking for what our mind says we need in order to find fulfillment. What we long for...

Topics covered:  We are born to search, but we keep running into dead ends, feeling like we are missing something. We only know to look for what our present level of understanding tells us is missing; "Metanoia" refers to the possibility of a higher part of ourselves that we are not present to. We would not know that we are presently blind were it not for an order of awareness that sees.

Topics covered: As long as you are afraid of life, you have not accomplished anything, despite how much you believe you have accomplished; It is a nightmare to believe that you have to endlessly prove yourself, over and over again; There is an immense difference between trying to prove yourself, and trying to be yourself. We have mistaken "proving yourself" for "being yourself." The world does not know anything about what it means to "be yourself."

Spiritual Freedom costs everything -- in that only someone who will pay whatever it costs comes to the realization that he never had anything real to lose.

It is perhaps the greatest paradox of all, but spiritual freedom is found only through submitting ourselves to the Living Light; an interior Light that doesn't rescue the self that feels captive but that reveals it was never real in the first place!...

Topics covered:  What we see outside of ourselves as separate objects are connected and never not touching one another. Everything that exists affects everything else; All of creation is in constant labor, because there is never not something being born. Spiritually speaking, we don't generally understand the suffering that is inherent in the labor of birth.

Topics Covered: When you find yourself surrounded by raging thoughts and feelings that are closing in on you, remember yourself with the understanding of "You go on without me," and watch those thoughts and feelings flow down the river; Our present level of consciousness is really just one level of being, one mansion in the great kingdom of existence...

The purpose of true evolution is not for human beings to one day become free, but to reveal -- to "those with eyes to see" -- that Freedom is the engine of real spiritual evolution, and that this Great Nature already resides within each and every one of us.