Topics covered: Any day that goes by without see something new about yourself is a wasted day; You cannot be receptive to new impressions when you are talking to yourself. But it is not really YOU that is in engaged in the conversation; Talking to yourself is the activity of a divided mind that is trying to reconcile the conflict that it created in itself; Anything that engages in a conversation about "what if?"...

Topics covered: Nothing can change in our experience of life until there is a change in the understanding of our experience; The purpose of every event is to help us change our understanding, so that we don't exit events as the same person that went into it; If we learned the lesson in the moment, then we wouldn't have to repeat the same moment over and over again in the same way.

Topics covered: One of the miracles of genuine interior work is that we come to no longer be afraid of our own pain; Every moment contains within it a revelation of the consciousness that you have entered into the moment with; We have to understand what it means to not just meet the psychological pain, but to go beyond it; We end up in more psychological pain every time we avoid that kind of pain...

Topics covered: "I am" when I can see; "We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them, but by waiting for them." -- Simone Weil; Everything outside of us seems separate because we presently we through eyes that either want or don't want what they see; "The flapping of the wings of a butterfly can be felt on the other side of the world." -- Chinese Proverb

Topics covered: We live in a sea of sensations, which makes the dream we are in seem real; Each worried thought and feeling comes with a temptation to find consolation through what those thoughts and feelings suggest; The seeming motive for anticipating a moment to come is to get through that moment without something bad happening; The only way that you can look beyond the...

Topics covered: What all of humanity struggles to overcome -- in vain -- is the past; We cannot separate what we call "the past" from the level of consciousness that derives its identity from it; Rushing is an attempt to get away from the experience of the past to a future that is imagined by the same consciousness; Any conflict with any moment does not exist apart from the past.

Topics covered: The fallen state of humanity is such that it has fallen from the real into imagination, and imagination is where fear thrives; The fear in your life is inseparable from the life you have imagined; We have lived with fear for so long that we believe the lies fear tells us are true and necessary; There is a natural, necessary fear that is instinctual and has no sense of 'I' in it.

Topics covered: We are always in a struggle of some kind, hoping that our struggle will bring an end to all struggles. But one who struggles in the field of the opposites struggles in vain; There is a level of consciousness from which you can see with great clarity that left and right, up and down, right and wrong are not separate but always appear together; The consciousness that opposes life through negative...

Topics covered: Your mind never stops looking for something that troubles or bothers it; when it's not looking, then it falls into a daydream and delivers itself into the hands of something that requires you to struggle with it; I Sweat You - ISWTUE - Instant Struggle With The Unwanted Experience; What's the unseen purpose behind every ambition? I want to be free. I'm looking for a way to end all of my struggles in life.

Topics covered: If the world was capable of providing you with genuine fulfillment, then it would have done so a long time ago; The explanation of a spiritual truth is not intended to become a soothing affirmation. The explanation is intended to lead to interior exploration and real participation in your own life; Blame is you not helping me to be what I think I need to be...

Topics covered: There is nothing that you can do in a dream to wake you up from the nightmare of being a human being who is spiritually asleep; Unlike all other creatures, you have been given the gift to be aware of your own consciousness, as opposed to being asleep within it and a captive of its own movements; The mind creates a dark drama and then struggles to find a way to escape from the very scene...

Topics covered:There is no struggle in seeing. The struggle is in trying to get life to conform to what something in you wants to see, and avoid what it doesn't want to see; The problem is not what is seen. What creates the problem is the nature that is seeing; Within the sleeping human consciousness, there is something that is already awake, and its presence in that consciousness produces momentary glimpses...