Topics covered: The purpose of spiritual studies is not to create a new identity. The purpose is to change. But why is it so hard to change? Part of the problem is that we don't know what real change is; Real change is always due to a revelation, a shock that shows us a part of ourselves that doesn't want to change. Shocks reveal everything that is not real change but claims to be...

Topics covered: One basic mistake we make is that we are continually distracted into looking away from the revelations that each moment brings. It is a misunderstanding of our place in this world, and of the right order of things; Not one thing changes that doesn't change everything else in the entire system. Freedom is being able to see that, and in seeing it you know that you are not apart from it.

Topics covered: We are bullied all the time by something within ourselves that we do not recognize as a bully. In fact, we often look to this inner bully for guidance; What makes us the favorite of any bully? The answer is that weakness always pounces on weakness. The bully does not exist without something to bully; We are bullied inwardly by fear, anxiety, anger, worry, depression, or any other negative state that we are not aware of...

Topics covered: Spiritual parables and symbols are intended to convey celestial principles that words cannot explain; One of the chief deceptions that we fall for is that something is missing from our lives, and that we will be able to acquire it in a time to come. As a result, we don't want anything that gets in the way of that ambition; We spend our lives trying to possess what we perceive to be good, and avoid anything that is judged to be bad.

Topics covered: A true spiritual school is a place intended to open up questions that have been dormant in you, and then help you remember to find answers within your own life experience; The symbol of the snake eating its own tail connotes that there is no beginning and there is no end; There is no such thing as a painful real question. Rather, there is a consciousness that asks questions whenever there is a disturbance...

Topics covered: To say that these are unprecedented times is to forget the fact that human consciousness repeats itself over and over again, which means that the world has been in its current state many times before; Notice that whenever you are thinking about someone that bothers you, you are at war with that person; Whenever you struggle against the clock, in a rush to get somewhere and get things done, you are at war with time...

Topics covered: Spiritual ideas are worse than useless, unless you apply them in the laboratory of your everyday experience. You cannot fail, if you work; The problem with relying on a bucket-list to make you happy is that the bucket has no bottom; What we see now is only what is in the foreground, so that our experience is only what our attention is on in the foreground. But there could not be a foreground without a background...

Topics covered: It is time for individuals who want to grow up to realize what it is that is actually set against them. It is the interior conflict of a consciousness that does not know it is set against itself; There is no such thing as a moment in time until all possibilities are collapsed into a single thought; We are unconscious of our role in the creation of the events and circumstances that we perceive to be outside of ourselves...

Topics covered: To belong to the greater life that is eternal is the source of real joy in life; The real interior work is about helping a person remember what they have forgotten about what is true; The joy of being in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing, is that the moment is complete in itself. There is nothing residual; Psychologically and spiritually speaking, the only thing we ever...

Topics covered: If you believe that you can lose your freedom, then you never had it to begin with; We are that which is used by the Divine, or we are not. If not, then there will always be an anxious attempt to achieve what freedom is imagined to be; Conflict in nature strengthens the whole of nature so that it comes out it more complete. Conflict for human beings always leads to more conflict and weakness...

Topics covered: The meaning of life cannot be known through any thought that we will have about it. We do not know the meaning of life, but we think we do; The meaning of life is unknowable to any part of our consciousness that strives to assess the moment through its knowledge; The meaning of life is not found in knowledge. It is found in being. The meaning of life is immediately perceptible or it isn't.

Topics covered: We are always in a struggle of some kind, hoping that our struggle will bring an end to all struggles. But one who struggles in the field of the opposites struggles in vain; There is a level of consciousness from which you can see with great clarity that left and right, up and down, right and wrong are not separate but always appear together; The consciousness that opposes life through negative...