Topics Covered: My relationship to life is that I want something from it so I try to take it, but the real premise of life is to receive; The mind never stops; Nature's creatures represent principles we are meant to embody; We are always within conscience; Freedom is ceaseless atonement; A stranger in a strange land; Everything that carries me away feels urgent and critical; The birthing of in...

Topics Covered: Spiritual attention is the beginning of humility; Nothing can happen in your spiritual work until you have your own attention; Our minds are always thinking things through; Conditions don't produce pain, they reveal the pained nature; Human beings are in a ceaseless spell; Humility is release from yourself; Awareness of your existence; There is no moment in which the observer i...

Topics Covered: Humanity is starving for connection; You can't separate karma from desire; Thought is karma; Newness is the fulfillment of time; The man behind the mirror; Only human beings have the capacity to see what gives them life; As we are right now we have an "either/or" life; Life exists as a ceaseless disparity between levels of existence; Freedom is the flowering of humility; You ha...

Topics Covered: Getting carried away by thought; "I" has a feeling to it that is instantly familiar; Consciously saying "I love you" requires presence; The world has become cheapened; Until you have your own attention, your life is not your own; Wrestling with the angel; Love doesn't hate, have an enemy, have a past, measure, compare, inflate, or self-stimulate; Throwing a toothpick in front o...

Topics Covered: Pride is inseparable from identification and attachment; Thought is always superficial; Thought is a buffer; Animals are at peace with themselves; Why can't I sit still; There's no noise in Being that Being doesn't use to further ground it in its own nature; Peace is understanding that disturbance has a purpose that the mind can never know but that your soul is designed to be a...

Topics Covered: Temptation is connected to looking for release from what's wrecking you; Corruption is the aberration of imagined freedom; You wouldn't imagine freedom unless you were already a prisoner; Having an enemy is the corruption of your soul; This Work isn't a prison; There is a nature in us that keeps accounts; You are the hope of this world; Complaining about others is stealing from...

Topics Covered: What is my original true self; We live in a world where nothing is new; Your life is a ceaseless outpouring of thought; Thought is a disturbance; You can't have a new thought; There is no "you" and no past in what's new; The definition of a mediocre aspirant; If I'm not present, I'm being "eaten" by thoughts and daydreams; If you don't want to be taken over by a negative state...

Topics Covered: Expectations of others creates second force; You are the event you don't want; Reactions are the effect of a disparity; The work reorganizes your mind; Using a fan to straighten out the papers on your desk; You rush because you're greedy; You can't serve two masters because you will love one and despise the other; Life doesn't have a fixed point in it; Eventually awareness of t...

Topics Covered: Seeing things retrospectively vs. reflectively; The circle of "self"; You cannot "clean the slate" the way you wish to; Using attention to penetrate the depths of yourself; I want to be the one who transforms myself; There is no release from myself through revisiting myself; You can't choose what you see about yourself; You can't deal with weakness retrospectively; Creation beg...

Topics Covered: The awareness of one's existence is an unqualified sense of "I"; Awareness is the presence in this moment; I am the vine, ye are the branch; We don't give ourselves life - we are sustained; A school is a hatchery; The moment your attention doesn't belong to you it belongs to the world; GF described a mystical experience while meditating; When the dream ends, the dreamer is gone...

Topics Covered: Your character is your future; When you take the next step, however small, your character is perfected; The development of character is its purification; Character is the gradual revelation of the relationship you have with the Divine; Apathy is the expression of a negative level of self; Intention is always by choice; The moment of observation of oneself produces a fork in the...

Topics Covered: If you will persevere, you will begin to experience moments in a new way; What you see about yourself is stolen by a part of you that causes you to suffer over it; Our present level of will belongs to the opposites; Talking to yourself is an attempt to reconcile what has been disturbed within you; Conflict is inherent in comparison; The Divine is not in you, you are in the Divi...