Insight Timer Talks

Spiritually speaking – as a required agreement essential in facilitating one’s rebirth – one must learn how to be at peace with (consciously) suffering the presence of a false sense of self that can never know the peace it seeks.

The Divine first intervenes in our unconscious identification with useless suffering by the advent of an interior Light that reveals a shocking truth: most of the familiar solutions we rely on to free us from our suffering... are secretly complicit in its continuation.

The Truth is magical: it transforms all who embrace it.

Stop struggling to escape the pain of the past; it can't be done. Why? Because it is the dark creation of an unconscious nature intent on remembering, and then reliving what it always claims it would give anything to forget.

Our suffering isn't because of the unwanted moments we meet along the Way; over such things we have no say. Whereas peace of mind is the realization that all things created have their own time and place and, when allowed to fulfill their given purpose, will move on without any struggle on our part.

The solution to escaping our dissatisfaction with life is unimaginable, because there’s only one way beyond it: we must stop imagining that if we just keep reliving the same old hopes and dreams – walking the same old lines through time – then somehow, by some miracle, we’ll step into a new life.

Strive in all things, but especially in your spiritual work, to make your actions continuous. Even a small act of conscious self-work done each and every day is better than a large effort every second moon.

Whoever fails to try what his heart would have him do -- because his mind tells him, "This you cannot do" -- fails to hear the ever-present Voice of Heaven forever shouting to all those who will dare enter the unknown: "No sincere effort ever goes without reward."

No matter how it appears – even in the midst of some unwanted moment – life is never falling apart, never falling down on you. In truth, real Life is always falling into place in order to show you the entrance to the next level of your own spiritual possibilities.

The great illusion of humanity — that drives all forms of desperation — is that we are somehow incomplete. We are not incomplete any more than is a rosebud about to flower, or an acorn yet become the Oak. We are simply unfinished, where the wise know to await the finishing touch of the Divine.

Resisting the revelation of any personal limitation... is like resenting the ocean because you never learned how to swim!

No false belief will ever die by itself, and yet...it will, and does go on living by itself.