Insight Timer Talks

We can console ourselves by explaining our pain to ourselves, or we can dig in and do the work of consciously exploring it. One of these two actions produces “fool’s gold,” while the other enriches the soul... even as it leads it to liberation. Choose wisely!

Real life never stops starting over; but, before we can enter into its ceaseless flow and realize its perfect freedom, we must agree to let go of our identification with any past attachments that create a present sense of self.

No oak became mighty in a moment, no mountain towered overnight; true greatness flowers in the soul by long exposure to Divine light.

Nothing in Real Life actually works against us... other than when our sleeping mind starts resisting its own imagined conclusions.

Our greatest gift in life is found in our God-given right to so completely understand any unwanted moment – including whatever painful, or otherwise conflicted character it may bring up within us – as to be set completely free of any concern over it, or about ourselves.

A sure sign that one is beginning to awaken, clearing away the veils that mask the entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven, is that – increasingly - one longs for the taste of Real Life... more than one hungers for still more individual life experiences.

Before we can stop making circles in time – repeating and reliving a life that long ago lost its glow – we must catch the sleeping mind as it spins another dream of a better time to come and choose, instead, to enter the Light within us... whose Life is already right, bright and whole.

Patient persistence in any labor, coupled with persistent patience in that effort, serves not only to perfect that task at hand, but also works in tandem to perfect the hand that undertakes the task.

We have no greater Friend in life than the small part of us that loves what is True. The more we work to honor this relationship, and recognize our responsibility to help strengthen it, the more confidently we’re able to call on it... as it proves, time and time again, the value of our love for it.

Falling into some form of stress or anxiety in the face of any unwanted situation is nothing more than our failure to realize the following truth: these moments are made for us... that we might realize our only real limitation in life is what we have yet to understand about our True Self.

In many ways, true blessings often come disguised as the worst moments; and yet, those who are patient enough to live in the presence of what seems to be a loss, or painful limitation of some kind, will soon see that temporary mask fall away, and see before them an impossibly kind and just face.

Be here. Be still. Remember the Divine presence that dwells in you...and you will know, without a single thought, that while all around you everything changes, your True Self is unchanging. Fearlessness follows this discovery in much the same way as late evening shadows flee the morning light.