Topics covered: You can't separate inclination from momentum; You must understand the necessity of bringing yourself to a complete stop; The self that seeks certainty is seeking the certainty of seeking; You must learn to enjoy the relative uncertainty of the moment; You learn from action, not from intellect; 'You' can't do what needs to be done; It is hell to have any value of yourself.

Topics covered: Resistance belongs to and is inseparable from what I am identified with; You must never lose sight of your interior environment; Being attached to the idea of control; The struggle of the magicians; A wave is a single movement; The true meaning of the word temptation is consenting to do the evil I don't want to do; There is a nature that exists only to be opposed to everything.

Topics covered: The awareness of what's missing in me IS what's missing in me; The wisdom of remorse is seeing your own compromised consciousness; Wisdom and action are inseparable; You must get to the point where you like being still; One day you will prefer being present over not; Personality can't stand being hungry; True feeling vs. false emotion; The work dips you into a kind of energy th...

Topics covered: What I call my personal life is actually impersonal because something thinks and acts for me; The divided mind is result-oriented; There's no winning in being; If I live and die moment-to-moment there's no self that needs to be consoled; Seeing your own complicity in your suffering is the beginning of humility; Only presence unifies; The work is not about the continuation of my...

Topics covered: The purpose of your work at this stage of development is the continual realization that you're nothing; Your task is to see, not to be; Our tendency is to love the feeling of being absorbed; We are intended to be an experience; Personality is a machine; Your spiritual work gives you new things to remember and a new place within yourself to integrate them; It's the task of the a...

Topics covered: The Work produces a part of you that values seeing your failures; Failure releases you from an illusion you had about yourself; Everything you think about is to try to reconcile something that has disturbed you; The devil's curse and blessing is that one can never be content; Stillness produces instantaneous order; Awareness of an internal contradiction negates it; Something in...

Topics covered: When I am not present to myself, something else speaks for me; The sense of 'I' is a derivative of imagination; All real education comes from moments of integration; Response is request; Awareness is born where active and passive meet; Personality is the 'second I' which is the effect of the moment; You can't change until 'being' is upstream of 'doing'; Karma is justice, which...

Topics covered: Interior separation begins when you actively work to be passive to what is stirred in you; We have a false relationship with our pain; Life is a ceaseless event, and each event is a form of light; You are not a higher order of being but you can be brought into relationship with one; We grow by dying, not by winning; The question 'why' holds secret resistance in it; The intellec...

Topics covered: When the opposites come together you get a fuller, more complete feeling and experience; Real feeling can't be separated from meaning; We have the capacity to be whole; Negativity can't learn, it can only justify itself; Everything in life is growing and dying at the same time; You are meant to grow into a completely different level of yourself; Exploration is infinite; A perso...

Topics covered: You can only 'be the bridge' when you are present and in double attention; Forgiveness is the grace of being shown there is no 'you' the way you imagine; Real prayer is you consciously bearing yourself; There are no shortcuts in the spiritual life; When only one center is in charge, there's pain; A spiritual intention is the deliberate creation of second force; Everything you d...

Topics covered: We have no real awareness of the color of our emotions; A part of you already knows that something eternal is in you; Contemplation bridges you to what you intuit you are but aren't currently in relationship with; A seed sits between two worlds that together are giving birth to another order of itself; The only way to understand something is to be it; Life is an unending awaken...

Topics covered: Judgment is a defensive act; Your attention is a type of a muscle that needs to be worked out; There is an unseen relationship between my identity and parts of myself that I'm unconscious to; The sense of I is always passive to what reconciles it; 99% of the time that you use the word I it is not True I speaking; Unconsciousness consumes itself, like a black hole; You can't dev...