Insight Timer Talks

Have you ever talked yourself into a dark place -- or watched someone else do it -- by identifying with a negative reaction that wouldn't be there at all if it wasn't being fueled by the fear of some pain as imagined coming?

There is no flood, no raging waters to be crossed in a time to come. There is only the movement of life now. And when we neither halt nor strain in the face of what we are called to meet there, what we will discover there is that His will is the Way, and that it will carry us to that supreme realization...if we will only agree to see it is so.

Negative reactions create chains. All chains are made by machines. To see that you are not a machine instantly releases you from becoming identified with any painful chain reaction.

Poverty is best defined not by what we may possess or don't, but rather by what we have mistakenly come to value above all else, and then continue to suffer over, uselessly.

We are only as locked out of the Kingdom of Heaven as we are locked into our many mistaken ideas about it... beginning with the false belief that we already know the true nature of (its) freedom, including what's required of us if we ever hope to win it.

If we ever hope to know the nature of true spiritual peace, we must do the best we can to meet each moment -- as fully as possible -- from the whole of ourselves, and then witness the results... in silence. And, whether or not we hit the mark -- still strive to be patient and kind to others, as well as with ourselves. Nothing more, nothing less; keep it simple. So that, unlikely as it may seem - in this way we are awakened to a great paradox...

The comparative mind can't complete itself because it doesn't exist without what it is comparing itself to, and neither is it capable of acquiring what it imagines will complete it because it is, itself, in a perpetual state of feeling incomplete!

Our new and highest possibilities can only be found at a point in time when, and where our efforts to transcend our present set of possibilities have been expired. Here’s why: It’s what we do when we come to the end of all that we know how to do that determines whether or not we realize a new order of understanding that waits for us just on the other side of the known.

Part 1: You cannot hide from what you fear; it is impossible. Part 2: You cannot believe in fear, and free yourself from it at the same time!

The one who rushes is continuously almost where he imagines he needs to be... to be free; whereas the one who dares to slow down his life discovers that he is always standing in a living Light wherein he sees that he is... and has always been free!

The perfection of each moment is hidden within its necessity; after all, what is the true nature of any moment revealed in the stream of time other than the ceaseless reconciling of creation to the Divine will that never stops giving it birth. The divided mind, supported by an ever-shifting false sense of self, creates the moment in time that it doesn't want and then -- blind to its own creation -- imagines a time to come when it will be free...

Freedom is what remains when we see -- with new eyes -- that we have never been anything else.