Topics covered:  The last thing that human beings want to give up is their suffering; The root of every ongoing, painful psychological struggle is the attempt to avoid suffering; None of the chronic psychological pains that we experience in our lives exist without the corresponding things outside of ourselves that we blame them on.

Topics covered:  Demands, and the sense of self that come with them, are blind because they mistake the part for the whole, incapable of seeing the bigger picture; Parables and teaching stories are able to communicate truths to us in ways that other means of communication cannot; In the story of the King looking for a new Governor for the Kingdom of Agape, most of the candidates were self-serving motives and full of demands, seeking more power and authority. The one who was selected said, "How can I be useful to you? How can I best serve what it is that you Will for the Kingdom?"

Topics covered:  Whenever are carried away by a fear, regret, worry, or any other negative state, we are being swept away by the past. We are swept away by the past because, presently, we live in its realm; Within the realm of the past are all of the imaginings of better a time to come; We see the present moment we are in through the shadow of the past. We see the present moment through the eyes of the past.

Topics covered:  A lesson comes along on the back of events to help you see something about yourself that you had never seen before; Weakness passes itself off as strength, which the moment comes along to reveal as false; We never question why we live with worry and struggle in order to arrive at a life free from worry and struggle.

Topics covered:  We are always trying to recapture a peace that we think we have lost. But the whole idea of restoring a peace that you have lost is an illusion; The mind that believes it has lost its peace imagines a peaceful time to come, which it never reaches; The negative reaction that other people bring up in you is YOUR limitation, not the limitation of the other person.

Topics covered:  Each of us has three different "bodies": a physical body, an intellectual body, and an emotional body. These three bodies are presently disconnected from each other; The physical, intellectual and emotional bodies are intended to work in concert, but they are almost always in conflict with one another; There exists a higher body altogether that is always present, but we are not present to its influence.

Topics covered:  For things to change, familiar reactions need to be met with something different than what you usually meet them with. You are going to have to meet the moment with something that does not repeat itself; You are going to have to change that moment as you enter into it, not after it has happened; The Divine junction is the place where the Will of Heaven touches the will of earth.

Topics covered:  Stop making life so hard for yourself and others. Stop believing that it is other people and circumstances that make life hard on you; We go to war with people whenever they deny us something that we think we are owed; Do your solutions bring an end to having enemies? If they did, the world would have stopped making war long ago.

Topics covered:  You can't know with your mind what is calling you to make the interior journey that saints and sages have spoken about; "Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there." -- Jalal al-Din Rumi -- "For he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." -- New Testament -- These two passages are essentially saying the same thing; Part of the interior journey is to enter into another order of being that allows for the opposites to pass through its field of awareness, but is never defined by those opposites.

Topics covered:  Most human beings believe that they already know what love is, as well as what it means to be loved; To discover what love is begins with seeing what it is not; We believe that power is found in the part. It is that very belief that is the pain.

Topics covered:  Until your attention is free, you are a captive of every condition that your attention falls on. To free your own attention means to possess your own attention; "You never enjoy the world aright till the Sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars, and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than so, because men are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you." -- Thomas Traherne (1637 – 1674)

Topics covered:  Most of us try to prove to the world that we understand, and then we are in conflict with anyone who does not acknowledge us; If you are not renewed, you cannot have new understanding. If you ARE renewed, then you can have endless new understanding; There must be a sacrifice of something old in order to find new understanding. No sacrifice, no change is possible.