It is a mistake for us to think in terms of spiritual "success." We are not here to succeed as we currently believe; we are here to change. If we wanted to use words, we could say that real success lies in genuinely knowing and living our part in life. However, the problem is that we have unknowingly named for ourselves what our part is. If we truly want a new life, it will come at a great co...

In this world that we live in, nothing appears that is not an expression of an axiom. One of the reasons that the sun rises every morning is to reveal all that is created. Were it not for light, we would not be able to see forms because matter by itself is dark. Absolutely nothing in nature is special because everything is special. How many of you think that the world is intended to revolve a...

Nothing is set in real life, but we live from a mind-set that wants to get things settled. Just when we think we have everything taken care of -- when all of our ducks are in a row -- life seems to come along and place another demand upon us. In general, we would prefer that nothing interfere with our carefully constructed plans. What is the nature of a mind that is always scrambling to put e...

When all you have is yourself, you have to be afraid. And yet if you really had possession of yourself, fear would not have any power over you. And if we're really honest with ourselves, we can see that presently we lose ourselves all of the time. We are always trying to hold in place who we think we are supposed to be. That is not freedom. Being yourself is not the same thing as straining to...

Our current nature thinks it can add something to Life. When we see a beautiful scene in nature, or hear glorious music, we know that there is no need to add one thing to it. Our task is to discover that all we will ever need is already within us right now, and that to do what I am doing with my full attention is to be connected to the present moment that is a living Wholeness.

Do you have anything that will help eradicate the fear of death? I have experienced this for years and it makes my life miserable. I have tried many therapies over the years (which I have paid a fortune for), all to no avail. Actually I have an obsession with this fear as well as the fear of illness. I think the fear of illness really is that I would get an illness that would be terminal. I be...

It seems to take less and less to make me feel unhappy and dissatisfied with the things and people in my life. How can I rise above the increasing pull of negativity? Every year at this time I get ill. I don't understand the lesson I need to learn. Try as I might, I can remember nothing from the past that would have set off such a pattern. Do I need to be psychoanalyzed in order to become cons...

Topics covered: Every true teaching is designed to help you see that, spiritually speaking, you cannot truly do what you think you can do, ie: complete yourself; Everything that happens in your life is part of the purpose of your life. What is in your way is part of the Way; Much of our lives now involve an incessant and exhausting search for a sense of security that cannot be assailed by any condition.

Part 1 People who waste their lives in chronic complaint over how badly they feel, or how unfairly life has treated them, think nothing of wasting your life along with their own. There is only one way to treat those who insist that you should treasure their trash as they do: throw them out of your life! Part 2 Learn to say "NO" to anything within you that would convince you that your only a...

Topics explored in this dialogue: Our sense of self is intimately tied into a body of reactions that are derived from our lower nature; In order for us to discover our true possibilities we need to first let go of who we think we are and the nature that knows itself through only a very limited set of emotional reactions; Real life is never adversarial, it's ministerial; We always reach to corr...

Topics covered:  "You do not see at all, but you think you see. You are identified with every thought that passes by, and the sense of self that comes with it;  Anything that you imagine, and then identify with, has no life in it at all; It is impossible to have a lingering negative reaction unless, in the moment of the reaction, you have met a moment like that before."

Topics covered:  We are always trying to recapture a peace that we think we have lost. But the whole idea of restoring a peace that you have lost is an illusion; The mind that believes it has lost its peace imagines a peaceful time to come, which it never reaches; The negative reaction that other people bring up in you is YOUR limitation, not the limitation of the other person.