Part 1 It is impossible for one to awaken -- to realize a new mind and a new heart that carries no residue of resentment, let alone the image of some enemy -- until one sees the absolute uselessness of complaining about anything, to anyone... Including to ourselves about our "self." Part 2 Here's the real reason a "coward dies a thousand deaths." By law, any fear we refuse to fac...

Part 1 We rarely see how, or when we act against ourselves -- or others -- because of how instantly, easily we agree to identify with a legion of sleep-inducing thoughts and feelings that appear to serve one purpose: to justify a dark and self-defeating level of us for which there can be no justification. Part 2 What is the denial of anything, of any moment in life but an unseen ag...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of February 17, 2014. We are not meant to keep our eye on some 'tomorrow' from which we blindly borrow the false pleasure of what 'might be.' Such dreams serve nothing save the sleeping self, an imagined sense of 'self' that always realizes, too late, that its 'hope in things seen' is the same as tomorrow's sorrow.

Nothing in Real Life actually works against us... other than when our sleeping mind starts resisting its own imagined conclusions.

Resisting the revelation of any existing limitation is like resenting the ocean because you never learned how to swim!

More times a day than we want to acknowledge, we feel powerless. In such moments, for whatever reason, we see our situation as being without a solution. Confusion starts coloring our considerations. Frustration grows and surrounds us, and we find ourselves imprisoned behind a wall of fearful expectations. But we need not, and must not accept being sentenced to a life of such limitation. We c...

Any time you are sitting at home and a thought comes and says, "What about this? What about them? What's going to happen if this?" you are burdened. You are carrying on your back, in your heart, in your mind, the weight of a set of thoughts and feelings you believe have the right to ride you to where they tell you to go... as if you were saddled by a donkey!

Resisting the revelation of any personal limitation... is like resenting the ocean because you never learned how to swim!

I suffer over being unable to change painful moments. I fear they will become worse and I won't have the "power" to make things right even though I recognize that I have never been able to do so!...

To everything there is a season, and life's great cycles of expansion and contraction -- of yes and no -- serve no individual save the one who has uncovered the secret of being in the world, but not of it.

You can't learn how to be; it's impossible. But you can see through the futility of the endless struggle to make yourself (feel) real...

Many of the letters and calls I receive from students revolve around a certain theme that I thought I'd take a moment to discuss here. For simplicity's sake, I will paraphrase this somewhat concern/question, which goes something like this: As I work on my self, grow through and into new understanding about my present nature, I seem to run into problems with former friends and family members...