Topics Covered: Judgment is an unconscious reaction to an unwanted moment; Out of a disturbance can be born a new connection to the Divine that created that disturbance in the first place for the purpose of revelation; Reactions tell us what we should do to change the event that is unwanted by that reactionary nature; The work isn't about trying to become the new person that...

Topics Covered: Thought cannot touch what is spiritual. We are meant to be connected to a much broader and more profound world. All true teachings exist for the purpose of awakening and developing the part of us that can participate in this broader world; Without knowing it we look for our possibilities in the past. What the personality wants and pursues does not serve the soul...

Classroom Talk: 11/18/2020 - Identifying with resistance to any moment the mind points to as a painful problem of some kind... is the only real problem there is in that moment. To see the fact of this -- which is the purpose of all true spiritual teachings -- is the end of looking for any kind of power to protect, or otherwise restore some paradise...

Topics covered: Your true purpose has no opposites in it; Nothing the mind will come to through thinking will reconcile it; The mind creates problems because it already has a solution; The Greek story of Daedalus and Icarus; The identity of the dreamer doesn't exist without the characters in the dream; The mind wants to get involved to resolve the disparity between heaven and earth; Transforma...

Interview with Jennifer Clark and Rick Lecuyer of The Namaste Show on 11/1/11. Topics covered: Spiritual ideas and principles are sunshine for the soul; The true nature of fearlessness; If I fight with life's greater story, I lose; Conflict is due to a misplaced sense of identity; We are responsible for completing a purpose on this planet; Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance...

Topics Covered: In the moment of realization, something that was disconnected before is integrated; Discouragement is dishonesty; We must be willing to make mistakes for the purpose of revelation; Thought that we identify with that is allowed to run unconsciously kills the possibility of rebirth; We are born with the capacity to see our consciousness no matter what level it is at...

Everything moves in ITS time, as are we intended to within that same movement. Learning what it means to be in this accord with Life, doing what it gives us (to do and to be) in the moment appointed is our path, gradually leading us to a kind of perfection without pride even as it fulfills our purpose at the same time.

Any time you're rushing around, under pressure to hurry up and 'get it done'... you may be assured of the following truth: not only will you run right by the (real) purpose of your life... but crossing whatever may be your "finish line" of the moment will prove itself as meaningless as the time you wasted trying to get there.

Whatever we try to go around in ourselves guarantees it will come around again, which is why the things we fear in life and about ourselves always tend to reappear. Here's the law that governs this relationship: whatever we resist in life persists as it does because whatever we oppose grows!

I am biracial and am plagued by anxiety, fear, race, sex issues, and uncertainty over the purpose of life. The result is that I have no friends and I am skeptical of many things. I don't know that it's possible for me to ever feel content. I know that many of the root causes are from my terrible childhood, but I have been unable to find a therapist who understands my unique interracial situati...

Topics covered: Freedom is the unconditional acceptance of the experience of yourself as you are in the moment; Transformation is not a process that involves a destination. Transformation is a process of conversion; Our consciousness cannot see by itself. In order to see itself it needs the light that dwells in the darkness; The purpose of inner work is to change your relationship with your own consciousness.

Topics covered: You can't separate a psychological fear from a mistaken identity; A crisis is a moment when opposing forces meet a point of balance that then tips towards either healing or more sickness; Pain serves a divine purpose; To be lukewarm is to refuse to stay in the struggle; Life endlessly creates conditions under which revelation is delivered to you; Awe is the understanding that y...