Topics covered: The keys to the peace that passes all understanding cannot be found with thought; Peace for people now is predicated upon whether or not they get what they want; Real peace is found in a conscious relationship with life, a life that is greater than the sum of its parts; When you truly understand the nature of real peace, it can never be taken from you. The mind's idea of...
Topics covered: The more we think about the purpose of our life, the more we fear any moment that comes along to show us that our certainty is mistaken and misguided; Why is it that we allow thoughts to lead us around, when we ought to be the conscious decider which thoughts we will or will not entertain?; There is only one way to win real freedom from painful thoughts and feelings...
Topics covered: We don't know what it means to be effortlessly here (in the present moment); The mind is disconnected from the body whenever we do something that we later wish we hadn't done; Nothing good can happen if the mind is disconnected from the body. The mind is unconscious to what it does to the body in its pursuits; Something always goes ahead of us trying to figure out...
Topics covered: Everything in creation is being acted upon by that which is greater so that it can be brought into the greater whole; Every creation is made more resilient by forces that might seem to oppose it or work against its own best interests; Negative reactions gather associated thoughts that justify those reactions; Useless suffering does not exist outside of the consciousness that creates it...
Topics covered: Though we are not usually aware of it, we live within a field of forces that is perfectly organized; Your hope rests in being the willing recipient of the revelations about yourself that are always being given; We are not here just to serve nature. We are created to serve a greater good; When you are complaining about your life, you are participating in the futile attempt to bring order...
It is often hard to do the right thing when it comes to being kind or patient with people who do what is wrong towards you, but we must embrace that Spirit of Rightness whose Light doesn't falter simply because darkness calls it into question.
The crowning achievement of God — and the seed of Liberation for those with eyes to see it -- is that He made us in His own image: a continually changing reflection of His creation, an act of Love perfecting itself throughout Time.
The last thing we want to learn is that no fight of ours can ever end in a victory -- unless it's born of our struggle to die to what wages war within us.
In each moment of life we must choose to take the upward path, or we lose the opportunity to rise above the parts of ourselves that like to fall down.
Let us work to lose our fears themselves, and not become the captive slaves of what they would have us believe must be protected; for what good is it to stand guard outside the door of any house into which thieves have already broken?...
Properly understood, everything in life that now disturbs us is intended to lead us to a world in which who we are lives as one with all that takes place within it.
The only true antidote for antagonistic feelings towards others seen as being unlike we are, is to realize this simple -- but largely unwelcome truth: just like ourselves, everyone -- everywhere in the world -- is doing the best they know how to do with the pain that they have been given.