Talk Takeaways

We have truth classes so that we can all experience and see the same understanding.

Every insight that is put into words is a form of knowledge, and knowledge by its nature is always incomplete — so you can't take knowledge to be the end of understanding.

Your opposition to unwanted moments is that you feel as though something is being threatened or taken from you.

The constant sense of emptiness and satisfaction you have is because you are literally missing half of your life.

Inner attention and outer experience are related, and it is their direct relationship that determines our experience of life. They are inseparable; one does not exist without the other.

We must learn to see the invisible.

Any reaction we have is to what we think has transpired.

There is a beautiful relationship between emptiness and fullness, between disturbance and peace.

You can't separate what is acting on you from what it is acting on. 

We are called to become that which when the inner and outer are brought together, in their marriage is created something new again and again. Then I'm not missing out on life because I'm living from something that is life itself. 

Life is not one or the other, it's one and the other. There is no right without left, up without down, in breath without out breath.

The only way your life becomes "one and the other" is by seeing how futile it is to live from "one or the other." 

All thought is about trying to justify or explain to yourself why you you have resisted what has happened. It's an endless circle of conflict because it's an endless struggle to complete yourself by a consciousness that can only recreate itself.

Time is the product of the illusion that the opposites are separate.

The basis of the world is good because its basis is holiness; but the world has become an unholy place because the mind separates “one" from "the other.”