Topics covered: We have to ask questions in our spiritual work but the answers don't reside in the realm of the mind that's asking; We have two natures -- one that is a time-based creation, and one that can begin to see the other; You are responsible for your own dissatisfaction; Reliving vs. reinventing; Thinking can't see anything other than what the thinker projects; You have been raised in...

Topics covered: Discussion of the lunch exercise to become aware of all points of physical contact between your body and other objects as you eat; A body that's asleep will never know the Divine; You have to have the nonsense knocked out of you; The work we do here is to serve a single purpose, which is to keep enflamed the little wish that brought you here; Borrowing the will of the work; The...

Topics covered: No real spiritual work can be done without the ability to attend to the moment; Attention is the manifestation of will; There is no soul until there's will; Real will is choiceless; Surrender is an early form of will; Humans are in-between animals and conscious human beings/angels; Intention is the first stage of will; I can't escape my destiny unless there's a change in the na...

Topics covered: What is a voice without an ear; All real work is for the salvation and reconciliation of human consciousness; We spend our time attempting to reconcile the unknown, but life is pure unknown; The meaning of the moment is inherent in it; Confidence is the echo of an imaginary self; We wrongly avoid endings and only pursue beginnings; The intention awakens the possibility of a new...

Topics covered: How do I make an intention without having expectations about the results; Your work is about finding a freedom you can't give yourself; Disturbance is part of your existence; You don't change a problem, you outgrow the nature that views it as a problem; You have to walk through the door without knowledge; Seeing the limitations of your mind; Real gratitude is never about anythi...

Topics covered: Spiritual love is never accidental; What we call caring is most often self-love; There is nothing new under the sun; Your habitual reactions are a prison; God is a body of intelligent forces; The more you taste freedom, the more you see your captivity; Observing tells you not only about what you're observing but yourself (the observer) as well; Being present at the onset of neg...

Topics covered: There is no choice possible until there's temptation; A life awakened is a life of seeing the need to interrupt the sleeping self; Until a lesson is learned, the conditions required to create the lesson will accelerate; Laying down your life for your brother; Don't be afraid of what you see about yourself; At the bottom of everything dark is a particular 'I' called 'woe is me';...

Topics covered: The real problem is that we see life through only a very tiny frame of time; If you don't see the big picture, you're part of the little picture; The divine expresses itself in an infinite number of forms; We are pawns of a certain level of mind; If you are for unity you don't fight against it; We are the instrument of forces, not the creator of them; When you can live without...

Topics covered: Uncertainty is the negation of false certainty; You can't separate false certainty from the love of sensation and motion; Uncertainty is the beginning of an intention for stillness; You must learn to be satisfied seeing your own mechanical behavior; You can't separate discovery from revelation; The only power of the unconscious nature is suggestion; No exchange, no rebirth; God...

Topics covered: You give yourself to what you love; We are drawn to what is active in us; What it means to let go; Understanding can't be acted upon until there's something in you that's able to do it; Love is not in time; Thinking from the pain vs. toward the pain; Learn to love Truth even when you don't know what Truth is; Peace is not the effect of an action; Everything that shows me where...

Topics covered: A chief feature of a divided mind is to judge; Most of what bothers you about other people is what they've stirred in you; When you really change you change in both directions of time; Your awareness of your long body is what changes your past; We have no humility in the face of our negative states; Observation creates humility; Something in me wants to be safe and right; A tru...

Topics covered: You postpone confronting what you need to see in yourself; Any justification you have for your negativity is a lie; We have a nature that wants to rest on what it thinks it has won, but you can't win anything; You live from a nature that knows itself through thought; The safety of a quiet mind is that nothing can enter into it unannounced; Being identified with the dream state...