Topics covered: What all of humanity struggles to overcome -- in vain -- is the past; We cannot separate what we call "the past" from the level of consciousness that derives its identity from it; Rushing is an attempt to get away from the experience of the past to a future that is imagined by the same consciousness; Any conflict with any moment does not exist apart from the past.

The torment of guilt is one of the ways in which weakness hides itself. It is a false, substitute emotion for the natural feeling of remorse that comes for having witnessed the unfortunate effect of seeing one's unconscious nature "in action."...

In moments of our spiritual struggle with life's tests, torments, or dark trials, no Goodness we can hope to call upon -- to light our way or lend us strength -- can be any more successful for us than our willingness to place ourselves under its perfect protective powers.

The past -- whatever its pain -- only exists in the present moment as a place of suffering due to an unconscious level of self that -- on its own -- first recalls that time and place of sorrow, and then resists the torment of its own conditioned memory.

Any wave of resentment, anxiety, or fear that comes to wash you away is nothing more than a kind of psychic residue left over from who you once were.

Psychological suffering is a waste of life. It is pointless, cruel, and above all deceptive. I say deceptive because psychological suffering is an unnecessary pain that we are presently certain is not only necessary, but actually unavoidable . . . a part of real life. Mental and emotional suffering are not a part of real life. You do not have to live with any tormenting thoughts or feelings no...

There is no fate worse in life than to be a hater of Truth. And whoever turns against the truth does not know his hatred is secretly of himself, for the shadows that torment him are not caused by the truth but are the dark effect of his having turned his back on the Living Light.

The beginning of the end of any painful taunt or haunt from your past that won't let you go is to quietly ask yourself when its ache starts to surface, "Whose memory is this that now torments me?" Then silently remind yourself that no such misery belongs to you and, in your awakened state, consciously dismiss the imposter that was posing as you!...

Here's an important idea to consider the next time some thought or feeling starts telling you (once again) to "make tracks" -- to "get away" from something in life that psychologically troubles or otherwise torments you. In its darkness, the mind manufactures many things to run away from...but how much actual distance can you put between yourself and these fearful apparitions when all of th...

Freedom is not something you find by fleeing from a negative state into the waiting arms of some better time to come. Real freedom is seeing that the whole idea of a "better time to come" can't exist without the unhappy nature that needs to imagine it... and then dare to drop both that tormented level of self -- and the time it lives in -- right on the spot.