Topics covered: Intellectual knowledge is not the same as understanding. Do not mistake thinking for being; A sudden sense of disturbance comes with the want of relief from that same disturbance; What we really want relief from are the unseen part of our consciousness that by its very nature has attracted the conditions that it then seeks freedom from; What is true refuses to live with conflict or act from weakness.

Topics covered: Imitation is fear, and the purpose of life that we learned from the world is imitation; Fear is an invisible prison, but our minds see the prison as being the opposing conditions that we run into when we are looking for freedom; You believe in your captivity because fear always tells you that you can escape; The divided mind lives in constant fear of losing what it believes will make it fearless...

Topics covered: We live under the government of an order of being that makes sure we do not understand that the Divine knows what we need before we know that we need it; We have wishes that we think are our own. But not one wish that we have originated with us; We have the capacity to manifest some of the things that we desire, but the things that we desire never come with the peace and fulfillment...

Topics covered: The cost of freedom is letting go of the idea that there is a "you" that is going to find freedom in a time to come; It is not life that is hard, but there is something in us that has hardened itself against life; Your mind will never be able to take you past the point that it cannot go, but your mind can understand that fact; Every desire has a corresponding identity attached to it...

Topics covered: When you try to escape from a moment, you ensure that you will meet that same kind of moment again and again; Your interior work takes a real turn when you realize you can't avoid yourself; The acronym "TOBADCEOM" from the doctor story stands for "Taken Over By A Different Cause Every Other Moment"; Every moment of your life your mind is given over to whatever it falls on in that moment.

Topics covered: The last thing your mind wants is peace. The only thing that keeps you from understanding the real peace of Heaven is what you do not yet understand about yourself; The peace of Heaven is a "time and place" without "you" in it. It is not a time and place "you" are going to reach and be applauded when you get there; What is the most rare form of self-knowledge?

Topics covered: Everything that a human being imagines as being liberation is imagination. The truth cannot be captured in thought; You can only understand what is in you and what you have seen as part of yourself; The mind is in a constant struggle to reorganize the world it sees into what it imagines; You can't struggle to regain balance unless something in you believes it has been thrown off balance.

Topics covered: The consciousness that is the present state of humanity keeps trying, in vain, to create a kingdom of heaven for itself; When we take the thought to be the thing, then we have belief in the thought; People who act cruelly are themselves acting from an inner cause that they know nothing about; The more you want something or someone, the more that thing or person will resist you...

Topics covered: Not one thought you have ever had has brought an end to the compulsion to keep thinking; In the unconditional acceptance of the experience of yourself is everything you need; The mind comes into each moment with a predetermined set of demands, comparing the present moment to what it imagines life should be. The mind does that because it feels incomplete...

Topics covered: Freedom is the unconditional acceptance of the experience of yourself as you are in the moment; Transformation is not a process that involves a destination. Transformation is a process of conversion; Our consciousness cannot see by itself. In order to see itself it needs the light that dwells in the darkness; The purpose of inner work is to change your relationship with your own consciousness.

Topics covered: If you want to have the ending you are looking for, you are going to need a new beginning; Today's humanity continues to write a story for itself that it doesn't like, always hoping that the next chapter will finally satisfy; Understanding is simple. The ultimate understanding is that you think you have to hurt yourself, but you don't... you think you have to be afraid, but you don't.

Topics covered: When you blame anything outside of yourself for the pain you are in, you are essentially blaming something from the past, a consciousness that is haunted by the content of itself; The future consolation that you hope to reach is a projection of the past; Even though a moment may seem familiar to the mind that is analyzing it, every single moment of your life is the first time that you have been in it.