Insight Timer Talks

If we won't let love show us all that remains hidden within us - that hurts us, as it does those we would never want to harm - then it can't do its divinely appointed work of helping to heal us.

The more we struggle to fit into this world's idea of freedom, the more imprisoned we become for having assumed the shape of some fear that we may get left behind, or be otherwise misunderstood.

Here's the last thing that ever occurs to us when running away from some unwanted moment: it's impossible to outrun what we don't understand about ourselves!

Our inner work to be present - including the attention needed to do so - is to make possible this revelation: the negative experience of any unwanted moment is inseparable from the nature of the seer; in this awakening is born the willingness we need to surrender ourselves, that we may be "reborn."

If you ever really want to know whether or not you're in a "right place" for yourself - or for the well-being of those around you - just go quiet; be as inwardly silent as you can for a moment or two, and the truth will be made clear to you.

Only consistent, persistent inner-work can bring us to the threshold of the "Truth that sets us free." And yet, the following is equally true: the liberation we seek will continue to elude us until every effort to know the truth of ourselves - by thinking about ourselves - has proven useless.

Peace of mind cannot be "pieced together" any more than it's possible to sew water, or weave sunbeams into light.

Persistence of the conscious kind proves discouragement to be a lie. Only in the light of this revelation is the deception of discouragement seen for what it is in reality: the shadow of an unconscious self that protects its life by convincing its host to accept mediocrity as the only possibility.

Nothing in the universe has the power to trap and hold the human mind in captivity other than the prison it builds for itself as it struggles to escape a dark world it has dreamed into existence... a self-created cage whose bars are the stuff of imagination.

Nothing is created to "have and to hold," but rather always to be transformed by the Greater Life in which it is held, and that acts upon it... in order to bring about and reveal the infinite possibilities inherent in its continual perfection.

We can neither control, nor change any anxious thought or feeling that rushes in and sweeps us off of our feet because this "I" - this sense of self suddenly in a struggle to escape some psychological storm - is itself part of the tempest it so vigorously resists.

No condition, in and of itself, is ever the cause of psychological stress, fear, or regret; suffering of this kind is inherent in an unseen, unconscious level of "self" that resists changing conditions because it is incapable of changing with them.