Topics covered: The last thing that occurs to you when you are negative is doubt about the reasons for the negativity. Doubt should be the first thing that occurs to you; Honesty and genuine humility are directly connected to each other; The possibilities of a negative reaction are limited to the content of the consciousness that is embroiled in the reaction; A negative reaction comes...

Topics covered: Everything that we see is through its reflection in our consciousness, including physical objects; Beauty is in our consciousness, not just in the outside condition that it sees, but it needs the condition to reveal that the observer is the observed; If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then so is fear, doubt and anxiety; Our present consciousness is mirrored in the...

Topics covered: Individuals who understand the futility of trying to save their own life -- through thought -- will gain their life; We must learn to use the presence of psychological pain as an invitation to not just question the things we believe are valuable, but to launch an investigation into how we ever came to that conclusion; Whatever we have become identified with over the...

Topics covered: The right place and the right time is always right where you are right now; We've never tried NOT trying to fix the unwanted moment that we blame for our pain; What is concealed must be revealed in order for it to be healed; We express negativity when we don't know what else to do with a seemingly overwhelming moment; The more you don't want something...

Topics covered: The way you walk out of dark moments is that you stop walking into them. So-called dark moments cannot be separated from who and what you think you are in those moments; We cannot separate a dark moment from the unconscious resistance to that moment; What we call a dark moment cannot be separated from the level of consciousness that meets and reacts to that moment...

Topics covered: Whatever remains concealed can never be healed. What remains concealed is the cause of the conflict we have with ourselves and others; Self-judgment guards the door to self-renewal, convincing us that protecting the old is preferable over the new; Revelation of similarity to your neighbor is what leads to compassion and the end of conflict...

Topics covered: Spiritual ideas exists to point to the possibility of a permanent connection, a bridge, that can be established between Heaven and Earth; The goodness of any creature cannot be separated from what it serves; Light becomes matter as it makes its way down through the ray of creation. Dense matter returning to light is what rebirth is...

Topics covered: In order to learn the right lessons and see the right things, you first have to look in the right direction; Being in a negative state cuts a person off from the nourishment freely and naturally given in every moment; Questions about what to do always appear whenever we find ourselves in a pit of some kind. The mind then answers those questions as if it knows the right direction...

Topics covered: What the wanter in you really wants is to continue wanting; A person can't understand a true teaching if he or she is already full of belief about what the teaching is; The nature of the thoughts that offer to lead you through a disturbance are connected to what you want and to what you don't want; The more conflict that is created by thought, the more that thought is called...

Topics covered: Real spiritual work is not about taking things, acquiring possessions to add to yourself; The fundamental difficulty in authentic spiritual work is that you must see things about yourself that you don't want to believe are true; Everything you tell yourself about fear and anxiety is the fear and anxiety telling you what to do so that the fear and anxiety can remain hidden...

Topics covered: Reality, inner and outer, is a lot bigger than our thoughts about it; We have an innate longing to belong to something greater than ourselves; Thought is the limitation, not the way to transcend limitation. Identification with thought stops exploration and discovery; The greater our resistance to any unwanted moment, the bigger that moment seems...

Topics covered: The old idea of turning base metals into gold is a metaphor for the internal process of turning what is base in a human being into something more valuable; The usual first reaction to any unwanted moment is one of resistance; We don't fear the actual moment, but instead we fear our mind's own interpretation of what the moment means...