All the wisdom you and I will ever need already lives within us. It's just that we are not where the wisdom is. Why? Because we want to be smart! Because we want to know, we want to prove, we want to get, we want to be seen as something special. All human beings with that mindset are fated to suffer themselves, until one day they see this doesn't work. In that same moment the...

Topics Covered: One of the biggest problems we all have is that we think we already know the answers; Surrender has nothing to do with trying to escape from yourself. True surrender belongs to another order of consciousness; Because we are incomplete we cannot help but treat other people incompletely; When what we have imagined will make us happy does not make us happy...

Topics covered: We are capable of understanding with our natural mind, without having to think about it; The understanding of level and scale is not through comparison; Time acts on space; The 'I' you know is an effect of thought; There is either the presence of real 'I' or there is identification; The true center of something lives above the world in which it sits.

Topics covered: Why we can have everything and still feel so dissatisfied; What we think will free us turns into a prison; There is another level of being that doesn't depend upon outer circumstances; The experience of timelessness; Every moment is a teacher; Observing one's sleeping nature; Negative states are a lower level of consciousness; Waking up to see the mechanical mind; Putting your...

Time and time again, we come to the same spiritual lesson: no one can give us that which can only be found within our Self.

Topics covered:  We are not looking for new ideas to understand with the old mind. Rather, we are looking for a new mind that already understands; A moment of beauty is silent because there is no thought involved in it; A mind that is being consumed by itself does not think to itself that it is being eaten alive by its own thoughts.

Topics covered: Liberation is simple. It is as simple as realizing the truth of yourself in any moment of feeling resistance; Our present idea of being a successful human being is measured by the goals we outline that we think we must achieve in order to complete ourselves; Built into humanity's current mindset is a preconditioned attitude of how the moment should be...

Topics covered: The first stirring of your essence; Christ represents uncreated divinity; Waking up is being put in the place where the branch meets the vine; Time is a creation of the eternal, that which has no time; What we think of as passing time is actually our momentary awareness of time; Identification with reaction creates passing time; Reactions keep reincarnation in place....

Topics covered: Events are not something to fear; Seeing the good within what we think is bad; Physical fear versus psychological fear; Using the moments when fear appears; The feel is real but the why is a lie; Basing our value of self on the approval of others; Seeing the dictator behind psychological fear; Societal tendencies towards identification; Unconscious reactions and stolen identity...

Topics Covered: What difference does it make what others think of you?; A coward dies a thousand deaths; Do what is in your power and refuse to do what is not; Outgrowing beliefs involves exposing the consciousness that holds it; We are made aware of the sleeping consciousness when it resists; Awareness is the beginning of enlightenment, and enlightenment...

We tell ourselves that we want a new life; in our minds we see ourselves reclaiming our right to live without limitations. We see ourselves walking away from destructive relationships and letting go of negative thoughts and feelings. And this is the very problem. We talk to ourselves about a fresh start and even plan the path we will take when things get right... but that's it. We think, but...

Some things I've tried to accomplish in life have been such a struggle, and yet some other things have just "fallen into place," almost without much effort. Does this have any bearing on how we should choose to do things? Should I stop planning my life so much and just try to "go with the flow"? I'm almost afraid that if I stop planning so much, nothing will happen! I am overwhelmed by thinki...