Talk Takeaways
Fear is always the result of some kind of unseen form of conflict. And our conflict with life is inseparable from our ideas of perfection.
The image we have of perfection is stuck in this unconscious nature as a memory. We do not know that we live from that memory.
Anytime there is identification with an image you have fear, because the movement of life will always challenge the image.
Any authority in the world depends upon its followers, and needs the approval of its followers.
We exist as creations who live where the inner and outer worlds meet.
While we do have some control of the outer world and what we can get from it, the outer world can do nothing to change the inner world.
Inner life is seeing thoughts and feelings, and realizing that those thoughts and feelings are not you.
The inner life has no space or time, while living in the outer world only creates psychological time and space. To understand both the inner and outer worlds, we must live in both at the same time.
There is not conflict in the outer world just because "the world is the way that it is," but because of our ideas about the way the world should be.
This nature is extraordinarily identified with the smallest things, finding a momentary sense of peace as it is consoled by its own images.
Rebirth is a level of consciousness that is a part of what is always moving.
There is no conflict between the beginning and the end. There is no conflict between the seasons. There is no conflict between life and death. There is no conflict between fulfillment and emptiness.
Any image we hold onto about how life should be, is in conflict with the movement of creation.
The turning of the moment is intended to reveal what you are identified with, as well as the sense of self that comes out of that identification.
We are unaware of another order of ourselves when we are caught up in the cares of this world.
Everything that is moving is intended to wash away that which has become static. The washing away is resisted because it threatens the sense of self that depends upon conditions remaining the same.
In any given moment, you can either be refreshed by the movement of life, or you can reinstate the familiar sense of self. To reinstate means to resist the revelation.