Unattended thoughts attract unwanted relationships...

Every step along the path (of life) is the first -- and the last -- for anyone who chooses to walk in the silent light of higher self-understanding.

We are not here to change other people. Whether or not someone else wants to change has nothing to do with us. We can change. We can use the resistance, cruelty, selfishness, and negativity of others to turn our attention around and see what it is inside of us that rises up to protect the images that we have of ourselves. When we see clearly the parts of us that want to fight because of someo...

I've been having many issues lately with past pain. If someone hurt me in the past, and a situation happens now that is similar to that, my mind instantly jumps to the conclusion of the past and takes my attention, convincing me the pain is real. I can see it happen at times, that I'm being tricked, and I come back to the present. But the pain is there, stealing my energy, my life. I try to wa...

Topics Covered: Observe where and by what your attention is taken; Identification is blindness; No reaction can reconcile another reaction; The task of the observer is to realize that it can't change what it sees, but that what is observed needs to be changed by what is higher; Every condition is the perfect place for revelation; Thank you, I didn't know that about myself...

Topics covered: Should I quit my job before having another one lined up; The more I'm aware of my suffering, the more I suffer; How can a spiritual aspirant stand against aggression without reciprocating; How can God be both merciful and punishing; Questions about the Active Double Attention exercises; Why does success come more easily to my less responsible partner; I don't know whether to st...

Topics covered: Anytime you're talking to yourself, you're lying to yourself; Everything that exists has needs, including pain; Pain is the instantaneous signal that something is out of balance; As with Heisenberg's principle which proves the observer is the observed, the need of every object is for you to give your attention to it; The greatest, most fulfilling thing that will take place for...

Topics covered: Student observations from practicing the free-memory attention exercise; The most valuable moments of your life are the ones that are the most excruciating; A psychological shock leads to a stop which leads to the possibility of real 'I'; You can't create the shocks that are necessary for your transformation but you can agree to put yourself in the situations where they take pl...

Topics covered: It's impossible to die to the pain of our past... as long as we remain identified with an unconscious nature that can't seem to go through a day without reliving some dark memory it then summarily resists; We don't realize that we've agreed to give our attention to what pains us; Our mind doesn't go back and revisit the past. Our mind revisits the conditioned content of itself that it calls the past...

Topics covered: The part of me that can attend to God is a bit of God's attention; This work mandates that gradually you begin to understand what freedom is not; The mind that compares itself to anything is in hell; The only power the devil has is to get you to believe in its threats; The futility of having your identity derived through something outside of you; True humanity has conscience in...

Topics covered: You are tired because you think yourself into exhaustion; One of the pitfalls along the way is that our minds are starving for things to think about; The purpose of a spiritual school is not to give you something new to think about. The purpose is to show you the need to point your attention in another direction; Familiarity breeds contempt. Boredom is built into identification...

Topics covered: You cannot experience life in a new way unless you first SEE life in a new way; You cannot separate your sense of self from what you are attending to in any given moment; When you have your attention on something you don't want, then you will also have an experience that you don't want; The only reason that you get caught in any unwanted experience is because you...