Topics covered: Part of the purpose of a true school is to continually bring in front of your mind that which it does not want to encounter; We are convinced that we have to do something in order to free ourselves from negative states. The temptation to do something is suggested by the level of the negative state; Nothing can be healed in you until it is revealed in you; Something in us does not want a wrong relationship to change out of fear that...

Topics covered: People who are addicted to something lie to themselves, listening to something in themselves that justifies their behavior; "An unexamined life is not worth living." (Socrates) The act of true self-observation is constant self-examination. Little by little, you will want to spend more time in a properly contemplative state; Through self-examination we see what it is interiorly that is presently harming us, instead of unconsciously agreeing...

Topics covered: A poet could write for decades about an impression, yet still not come close to the totality of the revelation; You are like the fish in the ocean seeking the water. You are already within what you long for; The more you give your attention to something, the more you discover about yourself through that relationship; The Vine is infinite relative to the branch, and the branch is infinite relative to the fruit.

Topics covered: Every question we ask about how to approach the Divine creates a distance between us and the very thing that we seek; Trying to be like anyone else never produces a change in the consciousness that is seeking to be something; No description of any principle is the same as the principle being described; The power of any principle does not exist apart from the relationship that the principle is a part of...

Topics covered: Every time we have a rude awakening, the realization is quickly covered up with a new dream; There is something in you that lives to make sure that you forget what you need to remember; The problem with our model by which we will achieve endless happiness, is that the model does not stand the test of time; Until you experience for yourself the fact that nothing dies, you will always be afraid of death.

Topics covered: The harder you work, the more profitable you become. And to be "profitable" means "to ascend."; Who do you work for? To know who it is that you work for, look at what you attend to all day long; You cannot separate the idea of "your" achievements from "your" fears; For us presently, resistance is an entirely personal force. And we get used by the resistance because we meet the resistance from the exact same part of us that...

Topics covered: When captured by a negative state, we cannot see ourselves as we are. In those moments, we can only see through the negative state's eyes; There is something present in any moment of revelation, something that is always there, that is more than who you have been; The source of your pain can never deliver you to the end of that pain in the way that it promises; Most people spend their entire lives looking anxiously around the...

Topics covered: The very effort to escape from a dream is itself a dream; We live in a world the size of our understanding. Understanding is a momentary relationship with the consciousness within which that understanding already lives; It is the nature of the seer -- the one who looks out at the world -- that is the source of unnecessary suffering; Wisdom comes out of the expiration of knowledge. Self-knowledge is not static... it is wisdom.

Topics covered: What would you do with all of this pain if you didn't have someone to blame?; Isn't it amazing that the golden rule applies to everybody else but you?; Any relationship of yours can be as new as you are willing to assume responsibility for what takes place within you as part of that relationship; Who is it that suffers first when we persecute others in our minds? As we judge, so are we judged.

Topics covered: We are more concerned with how we are being perceived than in being attentive to where we are and to each step that we take; Not wanting to be where you are is the same as not seeing how you just stepped into where you are. It is your attention takes you to the place that you don't want to be; What is it that keeps us reliving what we don't like? Because we keep giving ourselves reasons why it is necessary to relive it...

Topics covered: The only pain you have is that you don't know that you see life through a set of eyes that although they can't see any differently than they do, you suffer for their poor vision. The pain is always in the nature of the see-er; You live in a world the size of the one that you see, and you don't know what else to look for; You have to see how absolutely useless it is for you to habitually suffer over the things you do...

Topics covered: We have spent our entire lives running away from pain that we don't understand, hoping to reach a permanent pleasure in a time to come; The so-called heaven that we try to reach through thought always reveals itself to be a present self-created hell; "Thirty spokes share the hub of a wheel; yet it is its center that makes it useful. You can mould clay into a vessel; yet, it is its emptiness that makes it useful...