Resistance to a condition only exacerbates it; Resistance is always a form of unconscious insistence before it appears; Cause and effect are not separate; Intertwined and overlapping fields of energy; Listening is learning to use your attention without direction; Every line in the field of thought belongs to the past; Something never stops talking to you about what it...

Your life is just a stream of thought; Thought is a ceaseless postponement; I've never felt what it is like to truly be alive; You are being given life, you are not the creator of it; There's fear in imitation; The fact of the moment has no residue in it whatsoever; You live from a nature that's in a perpetual scramble to protect itself; I don't know what to do about how I feel...

You must learn to think of relationship as a mirror; Something in us is afraid of seeing deeply into our pain; The more I don't want something and avoid it, the more complicit I am in its continuity; You actually have seen the truth, but you just don't want to see it; The dreamer cannot change the dream; There's no fear in a fact; The work slows down thought; Thought can't help you...

The way we think of ourselves is a reflection of our past; Learn to live with what you see; Ideas are not action, knowledge is not wisdom; You suffer over your present understanding; Love never interferes with another person's life; All of your actions have ambition in them; There is no reaction without position; You are here to outgrow a level of consciousness; Real acts of will...

All identification is dependency; Awareness is seeing without a center; The mind is always trying to dissect life; Every wish to change something in your life is produced by fear; A thought has no substance, it's a representation of something; Fear is built-in to dependency; The way out of your pain is through humility; You must struggle with your weakness instead of use it as an excuse...

You're not comfortable with your suffering; We're locked into a mind of the opposites; My senses receive what is put into me; Psychologically I am a "want" machine; The pain you're in is the road to your perfection; Life keeps bringing you right back to the same place; You came here because you wanted an answer to your pain; Anticipation is always memory...

The gifts given to Jesus at his birth represent the relationship of reciprocity; We don't live in the real world, we live in the world of "never was"; As we are now we give only what we think we can afford; There is no "I" the way you think there is; Judgment is always resistance to a condition; You've been conditioned to believe you're not supposed to have a negative reaction...

Revelation is seeing something I hadn't seen before; Faith is knowing that the love or gratitude you don't feel is still there; We have a default relationship with Mr. Familiar; Following the path of least resistance; I can't love my brother as myself until I recognize, instead of reject, their pain; You can't have fear without negative imagination; I don't know how to be myself...

We attribute the word "I" to what has no real I in it at all; The work builds in you a body of energy that can't be fragmented; The continuity of consciousness; Voluntary conscious suffering is the initial thread that lets you see what you are not; The cycle of tension and release; The energy to remember; You have to begin to be able to bear the spirit...

The purpose of a school is to bring you to the point where you understand suffering isn't inherent in any moment; Our pain is from not wanting the lessons that life brings; All lessons show you that "you" can't do anything; First you wake up to die, then you are reborn; The work is not so you can be happy in life; Real self-knowledge is action, it's the union of self...

Topics covered: We're always in denial of our own consciousness; The consciousness that says "I don't want" will never push away what it fears; Only a heart that doesn't want something can be free; There is a necessary disturbance that sits at the core of our consciousness; Every disturbance appears with a desire, which is to return to wholeness...

Topics covered: Anything that introduces you to your mechanical behavior is of the highest value; Learning to die spiritually before you die physically; Having a disability changes your values; Christ already lives in you; The world asks us to be many things, and the Divine asks us to be one; You will have given enough when you understand there's no "you" giving anything; Everything is...