It's impossible to separate a false purpose in life from the pain that it produces.

When it comes to dealing with others who have failed to meet our expectations, let us never forget the following: their choices in the past that may have caused us pain ought never blindly determine how we treat them in the present. After all, if the Divine decided to judge us "once and for all" -- for even a small portion of our poorly made, self-centered decisions -- surely It would have g...

Topic: Being Unstoppable: How to Walk Through Any Fearful Moment; Questions: What is the difference between the whole of awareness and the whole of existence; Should I look for a partner or trust the relationships I need will be given to me; How to deal with past mistakes; Can dark forces control you through your eating; Does 'honor thy father and mother' refer to active and passive forces; Th...

Topics covered: It's impossible to die to the pain of our past... as long as we remain identified with an unconscious nature that can't seem to go through a day without reliving some dark memory it then summarily resists; We don't realize that we've agreed to give our attention to what pains us; Our mind doesn't go back and revisit the past. Our mind revisits the conditioned content of itself that it calls the past...

Awaken the higher understanding you need that allows you to walk past the level of self that gives rise to your fear.

Those who turn and run away, who quit when life asks of them more than they seem to have in that hour, prove real only their fears -- and this is their sorrow. But let us press on past our doubts to make this glad discovery: the reason we mustn't give in is because persistence alone proves that Life never gives up on us; what we hope for is nothing compared to the hope that Real Life holds for us.

Growing is natural. Our bodies grow by themselves. Our psychologies change as well, mirroring the growth of our physical body. And as we grow physiologically, a psychology is necessary to adapt to the desires of our growing physical bodies. We tend to equate growing physically with psychological, spiritual growth. But what really takes place is, with the passage of time, our psychologies simpl...

Since the active principle of the present moment ceaselessly refreshes itself -- so that all is ever-renewed in the now -- there exists nothing in Reality with the power to hold someone captive... anymore than standing in a fountain of water constitutes becoming a prisoner of its flow.

Topics Covered: We believe we are meant to walk through life without any pain and suffering; The idea that we're supposed to become something creates a back-pressure; Negative states tell us who and what we are; We are not meant to be saddled by thoughts and feelings; Pain is a message telling us something is out of alignment; Awareness of pain is required; Our experience is directly related t...

The fear we feel that we can't succeed with starting life all over again is because our old nature wants us to believe that the path to a New Self requires we retrace our steps and fight our way back to an unsoiled starting place in life. But here's the truth: There is no pathway, past or future, that leads to Real Self-Newness. The secret place of all fresh starts in life unfolds right from w...

We should never measure ourselves according to our "possibilities" because all such estimations of self are always based in secretly embraced evaluations of our own past.

Yesterday was Thursday, June 18, 2009, and here at the Foundation in Merlin, Oregon, it was the second day of our annual Talks in the Pines. It occurred to me that some of you might like to read the key lesson prepared for this talk. So, here it is: Without our unconscious consent, regardless of what we may have done against others, or ourselves, the past is powerless to punish us in the pre...