All things... be they character or creature -- animate or not -- speak to you from within yourself. The wildflower, the wind, the tumbling leaf and the dead branch that catches it: all have voices, and all may be heard. Learn to listen and you'll hear the Eternal as the sound of yourself.

Never run from what feels like any empty moment. If you will wait in it, watch it unfold, you'll soon see it reveal its secret fullness... much in the same way as the dark of a new moon becomes, in time, a moon full of light as it catches and reflects the light of the sun.

If our contentment -- our joy in life -- doesn’t start somewhere deep and untouchable within us, as does the beauty of a rose begin before it flowers, then our happiness is “in and of this world”: (it is) a creation of passing time that will -- as must all things that live in time -- wilt and wither away.

Where is tomorrow's fear other than in today's troubled imagination? And, if this is true, and IT IS... Then, what to do with our attention now? Let it be swallowed up in the dark shadow of what “may be”... Or, hold it in the Light of higher awareness where no shadow can dwell, let alone its fear?

The awareness of the whole of ourselves is the cancellation of time... for in this undivided state of consciousness no memory is needed to produce a sense of self...

Just as a those who climb mountains must, at times, reach above themselves to gain a grip on a narrow ledge, we too must dare to go beyond ourselves if we wish to reach, let alone change our destiny. To that end, we must never forget the following truth: There’s no danger in self-ascent, only in remaining who we have been.

In this world, there are three paths by which one carves out his or her destiny: cunning, industry, or love of truth...

Resistance to a condition only exacerbates it; Resistance is always a form of unconscious insistence before it appears; Cause and effect are not separate; Intertwined and overlapping fields of energy; Listening is learning to use your attention without direction; Every line in the field of thought belongs to the past; Something never stops talking to you about what it...

Topics covered: Ebb and flow of the work; Using something that has been stolen from you to discover something that can't be stolen; An order of being that can't be diminished; Uncovering what is hidden; Nothing will remain hidden; Self-judgment; Letting go of the old; Natural reactions vs. identification; We can't stop the reaction; The reaction is never personal, but it belongs to a person...

Topics Covered: The possibility of being a true individual; "I'm not going to die an animal"; We innately know we're supposed to be more than an animal; All animals do is survive; We are created to suffer ourselves; We are graced with the understanding of our own mortality; If it can be seen, it can be transcended; Every moment asks an essential question; We're put to sleep by the moments that...

The one who rushes is continuously almost where he imagines he needs to be... to be free; whereas the one who dares slow down his life discovers that he is always standing in a living Light wherein he sees that he is... and has always been free!

Topics covered: Discussion of the lunch exercise; Our lower nature doesn't know what to do with tension; Tension is a driving spring of existence; Every moment of life is where two roads meet and a divergence takes place; Life comes out of tension; Exchange "get tense" with "wake up"; It is impossible to resist something and change it at the same time; There is so much energy available to a hu...