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...

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: The first stirring of your essence; Christ represents uncreated divinity; Waking up is being put in the place where the branch meets the vine; Time is a creation of the eternal, that which has no time; What we think of as passing time is actually our momentary awareness of time; Identification with reaction creates passing time; Reactions keep reincarnation in place....

Topics covered: Real love isn't selfish; Our minds are undeveloped; We start every moment from an assumption of strength; Everything you can see going on within you is beneath the self that can see; Who and what you really are is out of the ordinary, but we live from an ordinary self; You're so anxious because you're always trying to prove yourself; Nothing in you needs to be protected....

Topics covered: Conscious pain is sensitivity, unconscious pain makes you a dullard; We have pain with other people because we're afraid of consequence; You're being manipulated inwardly; Do the best you know to do and then drop any afterthoughts about it; Discouragement is the shadow of self-judgment; Meaning is the integrated story of mind, body, and heart...

Topics covered: The illusion of a separate self; There is a communication between levels of ourselves that we're not aware of; We're conditioned to believe in the power of choice; The first choice is to see the nature of the chooser; The more awakened you become the less choices you make; Fear is a lie because there's no one there who is apart from life to fear it...

Topics covered: "Doing" is the expression of a consciousness that doesn't exist apart from what it needs to fix; The sheep knows the voice of the shepherd; You are always in a triad; This works changes what you are obedient to; You can't see light or meaning directly; The Beatitudes are a series of three bridges; Thought says, "Hi, I'm Mayhem!"