Topics covered: Real evolution is the awakening of the soul to its natural relationship to that which created it; We are created to transcend every split second whatever it is that you become aware of that needs to be transcended; The true aspirant has the sense that something is missing, and that the journey back home is inward, the path of negation; Awakening is discovering that here is there.

Topics covered: In the end all dissatisfaction comes from not being connected to the source of our life; There is no such thing as psychological fear without negative imagination; Don't look for power. Instead realize where you have agreed to be powerless; Judging a fear is fear's action; The majority of the world thinks that success is the ability to cover up fear...

Before we can learn how to step outside the pattern set into motion by some habitual negative reaction toward others, we need a better understanding of the underlying forces that create it. In other words, we must find a way to look at these same moments through a "new set of eyes."

In the end, and to the point of this work we do, the journey is from outward to inward. The journey takes a person from "out there" (powers and possessions, travel, drugs, new hobbies, friends, relatives, approval, etc.) to an understanding that as long as they look to anything or anyone outside of themselves, it is never going to reconcile or bring an end to the overwhelming negative states such as fear that are wrecking their life.

The reason that we do what we do is because we are looking for the truth of ourselves. It doesn't matter - wanting to learn how to cook, wanting to start a new business, looking for a new relationship, wanting to learn how to write a book, surf, sumo wrestling - whatever it may be. And as many people as there are hearing or reading this... wherever you are, all over the world and in this room...

Topics covered: We have been conditioned to believe that who we are is dependent upon conditions; Psychological fear is the belief that who we are can be threatened by exterior conditions; Fear needs to control the conditions that threaten the existence of that self-structure; You can't change conditions, but you can change your relationship to them. That's where fearlessness starts; Any fear that you feed is going to consume you in the end...

Topics covered: We can never change our past by thinking about it. The past cannot be changed by revisiting it; Letting go begins with seeing where it is that we have been passive to thought telling us who and what we are; How can we have a quiet mind and content heart as long as outside conditions determine what makes us happy?; The source of all psychological suffering is not-wanting.

Topics covered: The unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat; Your highest aspirations are reflections of your unrealized possibilities; All that we need to know to grow beyond who we are is already a part of our true nature; The seeker undergoes the interior search after he or she negates all of the other exterior seeking; The mind is not interested with getting beyond the mind.

Topics covered: The recovery of our true self begins with the realization that we have never known what our self really is; You are the answer you are looking for. The role of a true teacher is to welcome you with one hand and push you away with the other; Humanity shoots an arrow randomly and then draws the bullseye around wherever it lands; No human being gets negative without being in a dream.

Topics covered: The problem is not the conditions in the world outside of us. The problem is the consciousness that looks out at the world; The world is in the mess that it is in because everyone in the world is trying to fix the mess; The antidote is in the venom. The real release from fear doesn't exist outside of the understanding that we are already free, but deceived.

Topics covered: Instead of telling you what to do, the present moment is first and foremost asking what it is that you love and what is it that you will serve; We are not going to change other people by resisting what they are and insisting that they be something else; Unconscious suffering involves blame, shame and judgment. Conscious suffering reveals unconscious suffering and everything that comes with it.

Topics covered: Everything you do to "courageously" get rid of fear is the continuation of the fear; Not knowing what to do about whatever state is boiling in you is the same as actually seeing the state as it is; The thing that you feared your whole life is the place you find freedom. The antidote is in the venom; Emptiness will always be filled naturally if you will stop trying to fill it through your own efforts.