Topics covered: Discussion of the new active double attention exercise; Imagination is the ultimate enemy of the aspirant; Intuition is the key to insight; Intuition is the indicator of another order of being that comes from above; When we say that something comes to us from 'above' we mean from the fourth dimension, another order of time that holds passing time; The world is upside down with...

Topics covered: Review of the new double attention exercise with self-remembering; An event is a form of light; Resistance is a form of similarity; This work is about getting your heart completely opened and aligned; Toxic people don't cause negativity, they reveal it; Light isn't afraid of the dark; Once you become interested in what disturbs you, you are close to being free of it; Everything...

Topics covered: Review of the lunch exercise; We want to initiate a new degree of awareness of our own emotions and heart; We have a tendency to identify with negative states; Attention exercises are to bring us to the point of seeing that there is a kingdom of experiences that relate us to our own sensitivities; Change is inseparable from revelation; Underneath impatience is desperation; A ch...

Topics covered: Why do we prefer the torment of our minds over being present; To be present costs you something; You are developing something in you that can sustain attention; Creativity requires imagination and imagination requires emotion; Your mind is always in a dream world; If I'm asleep then I'm in danger; Resistance is the father of negativity; You don't prepare yourself for God's life...

Topics covered: The kind of peace that can so easily be turned into conflict is not genuine peace; When it comes to our spiritual life, there is nothing more important than "location, location, location," which is the place where we invest our attention, time and energy; There is a psychological location within us where there is perfect peace. That location of perfect peace will never be found in the outer world.

Topics covered: Everything you do is geared towards getting attention; Personality has to find something to be apart from; There is a ceaseless emptiness in us; We need to make a leap into an unknown awareness; Awareness joins all living things, and that field is the "I" of nature; Only the unknower can enter into the unknown; Thought cannot deliver you to spirit; Self-correction is in the awa...

Topics covered: Your thoughts are not you; A thought can only exist as long as it's paired with something that substantiates it; The constant deflection of our attention keeps us from moving in a straight line; Patience is being willing to suffer yourself; As long as you don't have an awareness of your nature, you will be that nature; Salvation is continuing to transcend the kingdom you're in;...

Topics covered: Imagination never ceases glorifying the self that is using it and that it is using; Most of your work is about discovering that what you thought was natural is actually unnatural; You have to learn to turn and face the opponent within you; You must give your attention to what calls for you; We don't want to go through crucifixion; Thought is struggle; Humility is the flower of...

Topics covered: Discovering that what you used to value as a power is actually a limitation; The sole purpose of thought appearing in your mind is to get your attention; Spiritual progress isn't linear, it takes place in all directions at once; When a person first finds a true school, the first thing that happens is that they feel truth, which causes them to want to learn truth; Intellect can'...

Exercise: Spend time deliberately looking at something and feeling what you see. You will need to be empty, not allowing anything within you to change what you see. Then work to see what you feel, which requires that you be active in the moment. You can't separate pure seeing from pure feeling. In this act of double attention, where the active and passive worlds are married, you let the Divine...

True patience, the seed of being consciously kind, begins with the interior work of never forgetting the following: what someone else does, whatever the nature of his or her action, has no authority over who you are.

The spiritual body that alone can transform the pressure of unconscious opposing forces -- that learns to use them for the continued realization of its own innate perfection -- is further developed each time we struggle...