Topics covered:  An awakened individual represents for us the possibility of an entirely different order of existence; You can't wait to make something of yourself. That is the reason for all of the planning and hoping and dreaming; The problem is that we live in a consciousness that has made a world in its own image; The problem with life's changes is that they do not agree with the static images that we identify with.

Topics covered: Every question we ask about how to approach the Divine creates a distance between us and the very thing that we seek; Trying to be like anyone else never produces a change in the consciousness that is seeking to be something; No description of any principle is the same as the principle being described; The power of any principle does not exist apart from the relationship that the principle is a part of...

Topics covered: Every time we have a rude awakening, the realization is quickly covered up with a new dream; There is something in you that lives to make sure that you forget what you need to remember; The problem with our model by which we will achieve endless happiness, is that the model does not stand the test of time; Until you experience for yourself the fact that nothing dies, you will always be afraid of death.

Topics covered: In the midst of unwanted moments, remember that real life is bigger than what you don't want; The mind is in a ceaseless rebellion against the perceived authority -- outside of itself -- that it believes is threatening to take away its freedom; You cannot separate a negative reaction from the consciousness that blames something outside of itself for the negativity; The last thing that occurs to us is that we may not know what we believe we do...

Topics covered: The harder you work, the more profitable you become. And to be "profitable" means "to ascend."; Who do you work for? To know who it is that you work for, look at what you attend to all day long; You cannot separate the idea of "your" achievements from "your" fears; For us presently, resistance is an entirely personal force. And we get used by the resistance because we meet the resistance from the exact same part of us that...

Topics covered: The very effort to escape from a dream is itself a dream; We live in a world the size of our understanding. Understanding is a momentary relationship with the consciousness within which that understanding already lives; It is the nature of the seer -- the one who looks out at the world -- that is the source of unnecessary suffering; Wisdom comes out of the expiration of knowledge. Self-knowledge is not static... it is wisdom.

Topics covered: What would you do with all of this pain if you didn't have someone to blame?; Isn't it amazing that the golden rule applies to everybody else but you?; Any relationship of yours can be as new as you are willing to assume responsibility for what takes place within you as part of that relationship; Who is it that suffers first when we persecute others in our minds? As we judge, so are we judged.

Topics covered: We are more concerned with how we are being perceived than in being attentive to where we are and to each step that we take; Not wanting to be where you are is the same as not seeing how you just stepped into where you are. It is your attention takes you to the place that you don't want to be; What is it that keeps us reliving what we don't like? Because we keep giving ourselves reasons why it is necessary to relive it...

Topics covered: Enlightenment is not waiting for you someplace, or born out of a knowledge you acquire, or an action that you take. Enlightenment is everywhere; Correct action at the right time is wisdom, and that wisdom is freedom; All confusion is born out of insistence. If I insist, I can't see. If I can't see, I struggle. What do I struggle with? What’s right in front of my eyes that I can’t see. That's confusion...

Topics covered: You have one problem in life, which is what you don't know about yourself, exacerbated by a part of you that doesn't want to know anything; It is impossible to wish for true revelation and ask to see the truth of yourself without being given the truth you've asked to see; What we are always thinking about is, "How do I reconcile this disturbance I feel right now?" It's the endless quest of a runaway mind...

Topics covered: The degree to which you see the truth of yourself is the degree to which you will be a free human being; It is in the revelation of your limitations that you are set free from identification with those limitations; Only human beings, no other creature, can decide for themselves what they give their attention to; It is impossible to see that Life is always changing until we agree to let Life change us as well...

Topics covered: We have spent our entire lives running away from pain that we don't understand, hoping to reach a permanent pleasure in a time to come; The so-called heaven that we try to reach through thought always reveals itself to be a present self-created hell; "Thirty spokes share the hub of a wheel; yet it is its center that makes it useful. You can mould clay into a vessel; yet, it is its emptiness that makes it useful...