Until our first wish and work is to remember ourselves with each step we take, we don't know that we're walking the path of forgetfulness.

Topics Covered: Sanity is a state of mind and of being that is at peace; The great task for all spiritual aspirants is to be completely what you are as you are being completed; The whole of life cannot be separated from that which is giving life; The orignal meaning of the idea of "sin" was connected to "missing the mark"; Thinking about tomorrow's plans to find peace and fulfillment is...

Real abundance has very little to do with being able to give ourselves whatever we want, but rather with being free of the part of us that's forever wanting something better and new in order to feel new and better about itself.

Remastered Classic Talk: 5/17/17 - 

Part 1: We are told that life is everlasting -- but see that nothing lasts! We are taught there is no death, and yet we see it everywhere around us! We dwell in the middle of an immense contradiction wherein one part of us feels the possibility of a life eternal, but that sees, and fears -- in the same moment -- only the inevitability of the opposite.

Part 2: The Great and Timeless Teaching -- that which can't be taught -- can only be learned through humility.

We keep ourselves active so that we are never not before a parade of passing things; and thus we know and see ourselves through temporary reflections, never knowing or being ourselves at all.

Every human being on this planet is created to love something. The problem is that, for the vast majority of us, the part of us intended to love something was crushed right out of the gate. That part of us was crushed by the idea that "I must become something special", which requires that I must get all stirred up to do something that I have no love for. We have parts of us that demand that we...

It only seems like it's possible to avoid unwanted moments, but the truth is that your present nature is as much a part of what you don't want . . . as what it would push away.

Whatever it is you wish to receive from life, learn first to give this without reserve; but neither should you give in order to receive for this is a secret form of taking that brings you nothing in return but resentment.

It is such a paradox that what often seems to be our strongest part -- the most driven -- is actually what makes us the weakest; and yet, if we could see this so-called strength for the weakness it hides, we would be given a completely new and different kind of strength has...

Remastered Classic Talk: 5/24/17 - Constant inner dialogue -- that infernal internal conversation running through your head -- is the fear-driven manifestation of a lower nature that first imagines a threat of some kind, and that then can't stop talking to itself about how to protect itself from its own dark dream.

 

You cannot look for the meaning of Real Life and participate in it at the same time.

You cannot look for the meaning of Real Life and participate in it at the same time.