No one finds freedom who believes their individual liberty depends on some consensus of how others view either their choices or character.

Topics covered: The meaning of Psalm 46:10, Be still and know that I am God; Is the lower self a conscious entity; It seems any one lesson we learn in the work contains the whole of it; Understanding how to work with chronic physical pain; What is the Living Light; Worrying about what others think of you.

When the times that we live in begin to determine the truths by which we live, then the day draws near when nothing True will be left that can stand the test of Time.

What you're really weary of struggling with is the weight of unseen resistance, and not the unwanted condition you imagine needs to be resisted.

Topics Covered: Fear is poverty, and it doesn't matter what the fear is about; The depth of my fear is the depth of my poverty; The psychological pain we experience is not outside of us, but the deception is that it is; We have to die to who we have been in order to be reborn; Control is chaos; Unconscious duality is conflict; There is no reason for the moment outside of the...

In your book The Secret of Your Immortal Self in the chapter entitled "Growing Into a Love That Lasts," you write: "Don't try to please each other, for each of you has constantly changing pleasures. Instead, strive to please love... and in this you will please what is capable of being loved in one another." My question is this: How do you please love?...

Your susceptibility to flattery is inseparable from the suffering you go through whenever you hear that someone may dislike you even when you couldn't care less about the person involved.

Part I: Seeing and being are inescapably intertwined because the basis of both of these characters is founded in light. Part II: The victories, the defeats - - everything passes in time only to come again and dress the moment in its approved costume. All that remains constant is the stage, in and upon which the continuing saga unfolds. Be the stage.

Nothing makes less of us than trying to be more than whatever the present moment asks us to be... regardless of its nature.

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...

It is never the people we are around that cause us negative reactions. These reactions arise out of what we secretly want from people.

Here is a great, but unseen, psychological Truth that once realized sets us upon the true spiritual path leading to Real Love and its Perfect Freedom: What frightens us about others is what we want from them; and what we want (from others) is largely what we have imagined is in their power to either give to us, do to us, or withhold from us. And so, whether we live with the fear of our love...