Topics Covered: You don't know you're asleep until you bump into something; There are parts of us that are laying in wait; Memory uses the disturbance to produce "someone" who is disturbed; You don't understand the severity of your psychological state; You don't own your own mind; As goes my intention, so comes my revelation; You are never in a neutral place; Every awakened person has one thi...

Topics Covered: The importance of not embodying the state you speak of; Creation is the gradual formation of matter from free energy; Energy into principle into matter; Any form of resistance cements what is resisted; You have to get to the point where you're no longer interested in not wanting to be you; God never punishes the human being who makes an attempt to see what they are shown; You d...

Topics Covered: In order to change your relationships with others you must first change your relationship with yourself; Changing your reactions requires a certain kind of courage; A teacher doesn't talk to who you are, they talk to who you will be; You are made new in the moment you see what you've been; It's inappropriate for you to be negative over anything anyone else does; Why does it tak...

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: 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: If you can't put down negativity then it wasn't you who picked it up -- it picked up you; What you think is your will isn't really your will; The deconstruction of self is not the end but an integration; The ladder of Being is actually the ladder of Will; Every center has its own will; Before real will acts it witnesses; There's just one will; There is nothing new under the sun...

Topics covered: The Work does not make you worse, it shows you what you have always been; In order to have a real life you must awaken to the fact that you don't have one; Human consciousness is riddled with doubt; Division doesn't exist without comparison; Let me be what I am completely so I can completely see what I am; This nature is terrified of emptiness; Real becoming vs. false becoming;...