Topics covered: To everything there is a season, turn, turn, turn; Christ never hated those who resisted or resented his work; The illusion of bondage; Being a pawn of a punishing nature; Doing what you are given to do; Self-Shock Syndrome; Our language has been perfected by the consciousness that perpetuates the victim mentality; Being poor in spirit; It's hard not to want consolation...
Topics covered: Doing the best you can; Helping others to understand higher ideas; The judger comes from unseen identification; Modeling yourself after others; You are an element of the unfolding moment; The alchemy of relationship; The prison of memory; Fear of being exposed as a phony; True friends help each other, not validate each other.
Topics covered: Feeling tested and running into limitation; What is spiritual growth; We feel inconvenienced by life; In the same way we have a physical appetite we also have a psychological appetite; We are human ruminants; You see but don't see, you hear but don't hear, you touch but don't touch; Nature uses resistance for her perfection...
Topics covered: You get caught in "thought pockets"; Identification is exclusion and isolation; Awareness starts with being in your body; You can't give yourself the gift of life; Impatience hides itself through insistence; There needs to be freedom to see before there's freedom to be; Everything that comes out of a moment is already contained within it....
Topics covered: How do I deal with severe physical tension; Knowledge by itself kills inquiry; What's behind the question "how long do I have to go through this?"; We live from an autonomic level of consciousness; You can't separate what you experience from the consciousness that produces it; What it means to die to yourself; Negative states are ugly but they...
Topics covered: "Laying down your life for your brother" is an interior action; Physician heal thyself; Realizing I've been the progenitor of my own pain; The dawning of a new light within; Having the willingness to suspend your automatic reactions; Relating the game of chess to your interior life; We live from a nature that sees itself apart from life...
Topics Covered: Feeling like you are always in trouble; Worrying that someone is mad at you; Tells that we are lying to ourselves; The body manifesting a reaction going on inwardly; Awareness of anxiety through what the body is doing; Inner dialog and mental movies; Holding your breath...
Topics Covered: Are we a human dreaming we are a butterfly, or are we a butterfly dreaming we are a human; This entire level of consciousness is a dream; We are never born and we will never die; Life is in a constant play of rebalancing; Pain pushes us to push other people; Recurrence vs. rebirth; The wave appears in time but the ocean is eternal; You love to talk to yourself about yourself, but...
Topics Covered: Contradictions in our consciousness; Being in thought is like being in a blizzard; The conflict in not being able to control life; There is no problem, but thought always makes a problem; Everything comes into existence with everything it requires to exit existence at the same time; Complaint is the deflection of responsibility and postponement of revelation...
Topics Covered: You have to decide for yourself what's important; You become what you attend to; Thought opposes itself; People who have left the work; The story of Narcissus and Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD); Anxiety is the inability to understand that what you see is not you; Without higher ideas you get more crystallized as you get older; You can't have an enemy without...
Topics Covered: Real change is rare; The lineage of the Work; Reclaiming your humanity is reclaiming Real I; Human beings are the only creature that can be in relationship with the world above them; A real human being has compassion; Immunizing the brain; The brain is in conflict and at war with itself; The past is a kind of infection; A conscious human being cannot be goaded; The field of thought...
Topics Covered: God is not male or female -- God Is; You can't right a wrong that has passed; Your interior body doesn't need to think to know itself; Higher emotion is 100 times quicker than the intellect; Gravity is a celestial principle that is the expression of Love; You do not know what true individuality is; Everything that appears does so for the reason of reconciling its appearance...