Insight Timer Talks

In much the same way as a mirror reflects whatever object is brought before it, so our consciousness reflects - and realizes - the character or quality of whatever is revealed within it.

In REAL life there are no "tracks" to follow, but thought runs along the tracks of memory, and memory always departs from, and returns to the same station: the PAST. This explains why it seems we never arrive at the higher station in life called "True Freedom"...because real freedom is not in time.

We can either spend our life resisting painful, unwanted moments - wishing they go away - or we can learn to look outside of them, which is the only way to discover the Truth that sets us free: within any dark moment dwells a Living Light that increases (itself) with every step we dare take into it.

Part 1: The more we complain about any unwanted moment in life, the more certain we can be that it will repeat itself. Part 2: The more we are at ease with complaining about something, the more difficult, the harder becomes our life. Why? Because the repetition of any negative reaction not only makes it harder to see just how destructive it is, but (it) also serves to strengthen our unconscious inclination to identify with a lower level of...

We must make - and keep - a special place within us for what we love; otherwise, our heart becomes an overnight motel filled with the visitations of a thousand fickle lovers... not one of which is capable of loving anything other than itself.

The smallest effort to remember your relationship with the Divine connects you to a calmness whose power is the strength found in all things deep.

There are no enemies without someone, or something to blame for our pain; whereas, when we will be consciously aware of our suffering – without resisting it – then, is humility born; and where there is this order of humility there abides within it a love that will bear no enemy.

Psychological suffering is born of an unseen, “mechanical” resistance to life; it is the dark offspring of an unconscious nature that believes its painful experience of any unwanted moment is somehow separate and apart from the way it sees and reacts to it, accordingly.

Our greatest strength lies in our ability to realize that whatever may be the nature of some immediate worry or fear, it can be proven false... that is, providing we are willing to prove it so by walking into and through it, and to test this truth time and time again.

One virtually unknown aspect of love - and, in a way, one that is most vital to your inner growth - is found not in correcting the path of others, but rather in allowing them the undisturbed, conflict-free space they must have in order to fully experience the consequences of their own choices.

Part 1: Without our unconscious consent the past is powerless to punish us in the Now. Part 2: There is no better karma in any given moment than to make your first action to remember to remember your Self... because there's no "payment due" for self-destructive, or otherwise unkind actions that you're aware enough not to make!

Dormant - and waiting just "out of sight" - in any demand (of ours) for "certainty" hides the familiar fear of living with what we call "painful uncertainty."