Topics Covered: Are we a human dreaming we are a butterfly, or are we a butterfly dreaming we are a human; This entire level of consciousness is a dream; We are never born and we will never die; Life is in a constant play of rebalancing; Pain pushes us to push other people; Recurrence vs. rebirth; The wave appears in time but the ocean is eternal; You love to talk to yourself about yourself, but...

Topics Covered: If you will persevere, you will begin to experience moments in a new way; What you see about yourself is stolen by a part of you that causes you to suffer over it; Our present level of will belongs to the opposites; Talking to yourself is an attempt to reconcile what has been disturbed within you; Conflict is inherent in comparison; The Divine is not in you, you are in the Divi...

Topics covered: Discussion of the lunch exercise to wait three seconds before talking; Exercises are not given or practiced to achieve a result, they are intended to allow you to see what is within your power and what is not; The patterns you have are the tracks of a self within you; The character creates the pattern, not vice versa; Put your attention on the pattern maker; Real change doesn't...

Topics Covered: The teachings are about illuminating parts in you that have been buried; You are a seed that's waiting to grow and open; There is a nature within us that is opposed to our rebirth; Real repentance begins when you start to understand that you are never alone; How do you see the truth of yourself without judgment and guilt; Allowing a space to exist between you and the person you...

Topics covered: The path of negation is what leads to the end of identification; Dropping a state is not the same as transfiguration of the character that embodied the state; Anything talking to you is an act of imagination; Unless you come to completely doubt yourself, you will never grow; Loathing oneself is the flip side of loving oneself; Doubt should be your instant companion in the face...

Topics covered: Anytime you're talking to yourself, you're lying to yourself; Everything that exists has needs, including pain; Pain is the instantaneous signal that something is out of balance; As with Heisenberg's principle which proves the observer is the observed, the need of every object is for you to give your attention to it; The greatest, most fulfilling thing that will take place for...

Topics covered: Nature's creatures serve the nature that has created them; Man is created for the purpose of seeing himself; Attending to the whole of the moment both interiorly and exteriorly; Self-observation is the most rudimentary thing for a person to do and should come naturally; How can you be moved to act against yourself and not know it; There is no static state for the human being; I...

Topics covered: Nothing that's talking to you about you is you; Discerning prayer to escape myself vs. wishing to be a doer of the Word; Anything you do to escape your condition increases your relationship to it; The mind that creates a problem can only meet it by trying to escape it; Love is the right way to pray towards God; God knows what you want, so why don't you let him give it to you; G...

Topics covered: Sensation, emotion, and intellect try to pass themselves off as love, but are not; We've lost the ability to feel life; You find your way on the inner path through experience; There is no burden that someone else is carrying around that isn't ours, too; Only the heart is in relationship with real life; The last thing I want to see is the burden of being me; Learning to ask, 'Wh...

GF: Welcome everyone. Let me open our meeting with some thoughts about what is required of us if we would realize a more awakened life. We will discuss some of these truths now, and just before the end of the chat I will lay out a set of easy-to-understand personal exercises that you can work with on a daily basis. Now, let's begin at the beginning with an important point that ought to be mor...

GF: Good evening and welcome to our chat for this month of May. First, I will post some special ideas. As you will see, these insights will prove themselves to be critical along the Way to your inner awakening. There are times when it feels as though dark states of discouragement dog us, following us around as if just waiting for us to fall down, never to rise again. On these days our own lac...

GF: Welcome everyone. Before we begin tonight let me present a few thoughts about what is required of us to walk away from useless suffering. No one can hope to know such freedom without first understanding certain truths as to what keeps us captives of unconscious negative forces. We will discuss some of these insights now, and more at chat's close. Nothing is harder for us to accept about o...