Topics covered:  There is an inner alchemical possibility, where what was once useless -- the lead of unconscious reactions -- can be transformed into something useful -- the gold of self-awareness; Life is relationship; self is awareness of that relationship; Everything that is passive naturally resists everything that acts upon it. Active and passive forces are complimentary. In nature a new conception comes out of the intersection of these forces.

Topics covered:  For all of the possessions that we have, we do not have peace. You cannot possess real peace, and yet you can never lose it; What deceives you into seeking peace promises peace in a time to come after you have obtained what it has prescribed. We become obsessed with the peace that we imagine is coming; "You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come." -- New Testament

Topics covered:  "Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?" -- New Testament. There is no peace through thought; The pursuit of peace through thought is actually the prescription for uncertainty; Presently our faith is in the fear that promises freedom whenever what we call our freedom is challenged.

Topics covered:  "My religion is not to deceive myself." -- Milarepa; The greatest deception is not what the world tells us is true, but rather that we are caught up in a great lie; Every reaction implies that there will be a consequence to the moment if it does not unfold the way it wants.

Topics covered: Pain always finds the blame. Pain looks for something to blame outside of the consciousness that cannot escape from itself; We are predisposed to blaming the experience for the pain, instead of seeing that the reaction to the experience IS the experience; "I don't deserve this" is the general feeling behind any reaction that blames the experience for the pain that you are in.

Topics covered: The mind can only approach the meaning of something through thoughts about it; You cannot separate yourself from life without suffering for that separation. We are punished by a nature that is never satisfied with where it is; When you really know the meaning of something, you don't have to look for it.

Topics covered: The world that we look for outside of ourselves in order to provide us with meaning cannot provide it. We are looking for meaning in a world where it doesn't exist; What if the shocks that you would normally avoid are actually the doorway to what your heart has been looking for...

Topics covered:  We are not typically aware of the weight of the physical objects that we pick up, just as we are not aware of the weight of the thoughts that we carry; Lying has become second nature to us. For instance, it is a lie to try to manipulate the way that we are perceived by others; A lie is any attempt to force life to line up how you have imagined it should be.

Topics covered:  Every day of your life is meant to include a new revelation of something that has always been within you, but that you were not aware of before; If you know so much, then why are you still so afraid?; When we are fighting with a moment, it is another will that has come into our life and acts in our name, but we don't know it.

Topics covered:  "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." -- C.S. Lewis; What is the nature of the emptiness that we have never been able to escape no matter what we have done?; Depression is the inevitable outcome of misunderstanding. It is a sin (missing the mark) to fall into depression because life has not given you what you want from it.

Topics covered:  Without knowing it, something in us sets out each day with the secret intention of remaining the same as it was the day before; We say that we want peace and freedom, or a relationship with the Divine, but psychologically speaking, we spend our time defending old beliefs so that what is old and familiar remains in place; You can't transcend the nature that wants to remain as it is unless you first SEE it.

Topics covered:  We seem to be at peace whenever we are getting what we want, but anything can interrupt that kind of peace; There is never a moment when you are not being given what you need, but you have to want to receive what you are being given; If you are thinking about how to face a moment outside of what is practical, you are lost.