Topics Covered: The extent to which something in us judges ourselves and others seems to prove to us the extent to which we are in the right; We are not on the Earth to prove ourselves to anyone. Instead we are here to use the moments we are given to discover what is true about ourselves; Addictions are produced by identification with an unseen image from which an identity is...

Inner joy can't be separated from a deep sense of gratitude that is, in turn, inseparable from a mind at peace with itself...

Feeling dissatisfied over what life presents in any given moment is like standing before the whole ocean and getting negative because part of you believes there's only one place to enter its waters where it's possible to enjoy yourself.

No condition in our life -- for its sorrow or joy -- exists as it does for us apart from our dwelling within that level of consciousness responsible for our experience of it.

Show me the person who has found the terrible joy in surrendering him or herself to each and every moment -- as it is -- and I'll show you someone who has found real Life.

Topics covered: Any moment of seeing a truth changes the nature of the seer; You really give something up when you have nothing to replace it; When you really understand something, it is a moment of something new being born out of something that has come to an end; The acronym "FBRS" from the doctor story stands for "Fixed By Resistance Syndrome"; When you don't want a condition...

Topics covered: We don't want to escape our consciousness, we want to transform it. Negative thoughts and feelings don't need to be overcome, they need to be understood; You cannot resist something and learn about it at the same time. To resist is to separate, to push away; The problem with our attention is not that there are too many distractions. The problem is that we do not possess our own minds. Until we possess our own attention...

Topics covered: The spiritual path is the path of negation, not affirmation. You must lose your life in order to gain it; Immortality is the gradual realization that you are already whole; We were raised to believe that our worth is based upon how others see us; We were raised to believe that there should never be any disturbances; When the observer and the observed are not separate for us, we are a participant in creation, rather than the observer...

Why is it so fulfilling to just sit and watch a child playing, or a dog running, or some other creature having a good time? The answer is because it's all part of our consciousness. We're not actually separate from what we are seeing, and to miss that understanding is to miss being part of the whole of that consciousness.

The one who finds the truth, the source of its path, and the footsteps that lead up and back to the living Light within oneself, has joy. For he has, at last, found and realized the true body of his own timeless being.

The main reason we can't hear God telling us that whatever we need to be happy and whole is already with us -- right where we are -- is because our ears are filled with the sound of wind born of always being in a rush to get yet somewhere else where we hope our pain will be left behind us.

Inner joy can't be separated from a deep sense of gratitude inseparable from a mind at peace with itself; it knows, without thought, that everything is in its right place -- being revealed at the right time...