Topics Covered: The root of the sleeping consciousness is separation itself; Something has to die for something to be born; The form passes away, but the creator of the form never dies; The responsibility is to be in your body aware of yourself; Don't give a voice what wants to find something to blame for the pain; Darkness is the absence of light, not the proof that light doesn't exist...

To grow into a new and higher order of peace we must remember at the first sign of resisting some unwanted moment that we must work to detect and dismiss any tendency we have to identify with that negative reaction...

It should be obvious, but it’s not: we can’t protect our heart and keep it open at the same time...

Part 1Any attempt to control a reaction is a form of resistance to it, and opposition can never lead to liberation any more than pushing against the bars of a prison cell helps to put you on the other side of them.Part 2Anger is the negative outcome of meeting moments in life where we see that some positive quality of character imagined as being our own . . . isn't.

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: 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: Our struggles to find freedom have not done anything other than set up the next series of conditions that we will find ourselves struggling against; Freedom has nothing to do with overcoming the conditions that we blame our pain on. What we must overcome is the level of consciousness that feels itself to be apart from the conditions that it perceives to be outside of itself; Useless struggle is battling with conditions that seem contrary...

Topics covered: There's only one thing in this life that sits at the center of all of our pain and problems in life, which is that we believe we can save ourselves; Until you understand the illusion that the "you" who suffers over your past is who you really are, nothing will change; We must enter into a new kind of "confrontation" with the part of us that blames everyone and everything else outside of it for the pain...

Topics covered: If you had one minute to express, from your heart, what you've learned from your life, what would you say; without humility a human being can't change; humility is one of the anchors of attention; you can't give yourself humility but you can invite it into your life; blaming anyone or anything outside of you is an act of lunacy by a lunatic who is trying to keep the asylum in p...

The ever-anxious feeling that life owes us something -- that we’re entitled to have our demands met -- creates two problems at once...

Topics covered:  The last thing that we want are recurring shocks. There is a part of us that does not want to be disturbed, a part of us that avoids disturbances at all costs; The negativity that we blame on the condition was there before the condition came along to stir the negativity to the surface; Something in us believes that we have a right to be negative because we would not be negative were it not for the condition or the person that is disturbing us.

The pain of any worry or fear is not imagined, but its source is -- as when we become anxious over a lost key that we have mistakenly placed in our jacket pocket instead of our usual pants pocket. Such fearful worry is created by becoming instantly identified with certain habitual negative images flooding through us, the fact of which goes to prove: Much, if not all of our pain in life (that...