My question is about despair. After a long illness, I realize that to be happy, there has to be a willingness to not think about self or self-imagined problems. You have pointed to the need to call on the light or step into the light when assaulted by dark forces, yet I do not seem able to do so consistently because I am exhausted by physical illness.

Your present consciousness thinks in terms of getting things done so that it can be "over" and you can move on to the next thing. But real life is never done the way that nature wants you to believe. Real life is always being done, and you have a role in it, which is to attend to life while it's happening so that you can be purified by it.

Topics explored in this dialogue: Fearful moments, while challenging, are an invitation to begin the painful but necessary possibility of awakening, so we come to understand the purpose of our existence on this planet; We think we should be able to control the world we're in, but we forget that we are creations first and then creators; Negative states are set up in us by our resistance to even...

Topics covered:  Stop making life so hard for yourself and others. Stop believing that it is other people and circumstances that make life hard on you; We go to war with people whenever they deny us something that we think we are owed; Do your solutions bring an end to having enemies? If they did, the world would have stopped making war long ago.

Topics covered: Real joy is connected to a new kind of willingness to participate in what we could call "Divine Being"; The consciousness that dreams about greatness does not know anything about true greatness; Everything that the mind thinks is greatness is a poor substitue for the timeless greatness that has already been prepared for you; The joy of being useful is about understanding your role...

Topics covered: The Hero's Journey begins with discovering that we do not know what we think we know; Every human being, by the fact that they are born on this planet, is asleep in this planet, in this consciousness that has manifested and expressed itself in this world; Everything will be revealed to the individuals who really want to know the reason for their existence...

Topics Covered: You are the treasure you seek, but yet "you" are nothing like you think yourself to be; No painful negative reaction can be separated from an imagined sense of self. And there cannot be a negative reaction without resistance; SBS stands for "Shouldn't Be Syndrome." Something within us says that the moment shouldn't be the way it is as it interprets the moment...

Topics Covered: We are dependent upon any condition that we think will grant us independence. That is a recipe for fear; True independence can be found within the very feeling of impermanence that a part of us fears; Our longing for freedom belongs to another order of consciousness that is already free. To long for something is to want to close the distance between ourselves...

Every human being brought into this world has a specific role, but we're in constant confusion because we think we're meant to be something other than what we are. Only God himself can show you what you are meant to be. Once you understand your role, whatever it is, you are meant to do it 100%, so that you may then be given another role.

Topics covered: The inner gives rise to the exterior manifestation; Life is intended to be a ceaseless marriage ceremony; Spiritually speaking, you are responsible for continuously receiving the baton each moment and handing it off; It is inevitable that you will be tested on what you love; There's an immense gulf between what you think you know and what you are; The purity of revelation is re...

I'm beginning to think that the conflicts raging in the world are just an expression on a larger scale of how it is that when I hurt someone with my callous behavior, I can't seem to remember how much it hurts to be on the receiving end. How do we even begin to end the cycle of conflicts on this earth? Where is compassion when we really need it? How do we forget so quickly to be the kind of pe...

Do you want to know what tears the heart apart? What dries up the mind and kills the soul? It is the lies that remain inside of human beings because we have been duped into protecting something that secretly punishes us. And we mistake the idea of being protected for the same as being whole and complete when, of course, we can't be protected without a fear being protected by that lying nature.