Insight Timer Talks

Key Lesson: Nothing real lives outside the flow of life except for an imagined self whose sense of "I" consists of insisting that life never deviate from the direction it imagines will lead it to freedom.

Key Lesson: It's impossible to separate some false action in life from the pain that it produces, so that the more we learn to consciously suffer that pain, the more clearly we begin to see into and through the false nature responsible for creating it.

Key Lesson: You can't work with what you are not, and you can't change what you hope to be. Work begins and ends in the same place: with where you are, and what you are in the moment. Any other effort is but part of a dream, as is the inevitable shock of being awakened from it.

Key Lesson: Whatever we may do in this life that is unnatural, if we do it long enough... becomes second nature.

Key Lesson: Even if I am told what is true, it is not yet the truth. Even if I am shown what is true, it is not yet the truth. Only as I see what is true for myself does Revelation begin, and with it the work of resting from my labors for having glimpsed a peace that passes understanding.

Key Lesson: When you no longer want to look at the world through the eyes of anyone else, you will at last know what it means to see.

Key Lesson: Learn to let your love of exploring new and open spaces replace all of the ever-diminishing pleasures... found in all the old familiar places.

Key Lesson: There are as many memory-paved roads promising a new life as there are old thoughts trying once again to escape the consequences of themselves. The tragedy is that every road built by memory eventually circles back to the same familiar destination, because the traveler has never changed.

Key Lesson: In REAL life there are no "tracks" to follow, but thought runs along the tracks of memory, and memory always departs from and returns to the same old railway station: the PAST. This explains why it seems we never arrive at the higher station in life called "True Freedom"... because real freedom is not in time.

Key Lesson: 
We shall find life's unending opening only when -- and as -- we agree to enter into and explore what seems closed, and at an end.

Key Lesson: 
Whatever storms you are given to face on your long journey back home, work to remember this truth... and be assured the day will dawn when you will know the unconditional freedom you seek: Your struggle is with yourself, and yourself only.

Key Lesson: 
Whatever storms you are given to face on your long journey back home, work to remember this truth... and be assured the day will dawn when you will know the unconditional freedom you seek: Your struggle is with yourself, and yourself only.