Negative reactions create chains. All chains are made by machines. To see that you are not a machine instantly releases you from becoming identified with any painful chain reaction.

Have you ever talked yourself into a dark place -- or watched someone else do it -- by identifying with a negative reaction that wouldn't be there at all if it wasn't being fueled by the fear of some pain as imagined coming?

There is no flood, no raging waters to be crossed in a time to come. There is only the movement of life now. And when we neither halt nor strain in the face of what we are called to meet there, what we will discover there is that His will is the Way, and that it will carry us to that supreme realization...if we will only agree to see it is so.

Topics covered:  We have fallen into a state where we have no knowledge of what we're living under internally; When something takes over your attention it also takes over your intention. This is how your original intention becomes an accidental intention; An accidental life changes nothing except for the kinds of accidents we have.

Topics covered:  The antidote is in the venom. Likewise, the answer that you look for to ease a pain is not outside of the moment that the pain appears; It is the way that you see the moment that produces the feeling of being seized by it; Does a moment itself, as it is, have any psychological weight? No, the weight is in the consciousness that struggles against the moment.

Topics covered:  We have been educated, inculcated, and conditioned to believe that our task is always to appear as if we know who we are and what we're doing, and anything that would challenge that is immediately seen as an enemy. But in this work, that nature that would hide its weakness is the enemy, because it ensures that we never bring into the light of understanding that which alone can change and transform that nature that lives with that kind of weakness and works to hide it; A weakness becomes a strength when it changes everything that individual is in relationship with. Anything that changes inside of a person changes the whole relationship they're in from that moment forward.

Whatever it may be within us that fears death... is itself the thing that must die.

Starve a fear and feed your freedom...

Whatever we may do in this life that is unnatural, if we do it long enough... becomes second nature.

The sleeping mind is a ghost. It doesn’t want to see how much it loves the haunted house it claims it can’t stand living in, but yet won’t leave.

Nothing real lives outside the flow of life except for an imagined self whose sense of “I” consists of insisting that life never deviate from the direction it imagines will lead it to freedom.

We gaze upon a brightly colored veil -- see it flutter in the breeze of some passing event -- and call it the world.