Topics covered: Our suffering is solved the moment we find where it is that, without knowing it, we have been living from a nature that isn't just complicit with its continuity, but that can't live without it; What you give your attention to cannot be separated from the sense of self derived from it. Anything that captures your attention becomes your experience and your sense of self...
Topics covered: The unconscious mind tries to regain balance whenenver it registers a disturbance that interferes with its agenda; The distractions we turn to in order to escape the feeling of emptiness are created by the consciousness that must fill itself in order to know itself; Humanity's imagined heaven is the invention of a consciousness that is in hell; If you are still anxious and afraid...
Topics covered: Any day that goes by without see something new about yourself is a wasted day; You cannot be receptive to new impressions when you are talking to yourself. But it is not really YOU that is in engaged in the conversation; Talking to yourself is the activity of a divided mind that is trying to reconcile the conflict that it created in itself; Anything that engages in a conversation about "what if?"...
Topics Covered: Even with all of our rushing and doing and struggling, nothing real changes; There is always a feeling in a divided consciousness that there is a distance that must be spanned before it can be at ease; In reality there is no distance between you and the "I Am" that always is, between you and peace, between you and what is perfect; A part of us creates the idea that...
Topics Covered: In the moment of realization, something that was disconnected before is integrated; Discouragement is dishonesty; We must be willing to make mistakes for the purpose of revelation; Thought that we identify with that is allowed to run unconsciously kills the possibility of rebirth; We are born with the capacity to see our consciousness no matter what level it is at...
Real Freedom is the realization that our True Nature is created to converge and comply with Living Principles, with Celestial Energies whose very reason for being is to transform the darkness into the Light, to release what is limited into a conscious awareness of what is Divine and Limitless.
Don't try to be free -- for this sets you against any movement of life that doesn't line up with your ideas about the nature of freedom. Better than trying to be free, learn instead to freely explore all of your moments. For instance, be free to wonder about your worries instead of feverishly working to resolve them according to your present ideas about a worry-free life. Then perhaps y...
Topics covered: Real spiritual work is not about taking things, acquiring possessions to add to yourself; The fundamental difficulty in authentic spiritual work is that you must see things about yourself that you don't want to believe are true; Everything you tell yourself about fear and anxiety is the fear and anxiety telling you what to do so that the fear and anxiety can remain hidden...
Topics Covered: We live in a world that is the size of our understanding; As we are now, unconscious reactions tell us what to understand and believe about the moment, as well as what to do about it; There can be no painful reaction without there being something that is fixed in our consciousness; The mind that analyzes and describes a reaction is not separate from the consciousness...
Know this: It is impossible to escape the fires that forge change in one's life, but they may be used to awaken and change the sleeping nature that would escape them to realize and to reach a New Nature for whom these fires are become as food and a way to eternal freedom.
Topics covered: The only thing that sleeping human beings see are the reasons -- outside of themselves -- for their anxiety, anger, fear and negativity; It seems mandatory to have enemies because that nature feels as though everyone and everything is pressing-in on it; What we presently call love is dependent upon outside conditions giving us what we want; The real golden rule is: Don't do to others what you don't want done to you...
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Topics covered: Most of us don't know anything at all about our obsessions. When a person is obsessed with something, he or she sees it as natural and necessary; Life is intended to be simple. Everything that is perceived as being difficult is, in reality, simple for the level of understanding that sees from a higher perspective; The Kingdom of Heaven is within. It is not out there in the world of thought and its temporary creations.