Insight Timer Talks

Most of us "give" back to life -- to others -- what little we do only to ensure we continue to get whatever we feel is fair in trade for that exchange. It's a good thing that the Divine doesn't adhere to our notion of a fair program of exchange.

Being renewed by Love -- and being willing to begin our life all over again -- are one and the same interior action. Learn what it means to do the latter and the freedom of the former will prove itself time and time again.

Shadows are forms without substance that create contrast; thoughts are shadows whose substance -- when identified with -- seduce us into seeing a dark world filled with useless solutions to imagined fears.

Unconscious suffering is the negative effect of our (own) incomplete understanding of why life seems to keep giving us moments we don't want. To see the real reason hidden in this reoccurring relationship empowers us to let go of our resistance to life, and to enter into its unseen Divine flow.

Whatever seems impossible, or otherwise impassible in life is inseparable from the extent of our resistance to it; a fear inherent in the way we're conditioned to see such moments. To realize the nature of this fear is to be released from it, no matter when or how it presents itself along the Way.

If we can't give the whole of our attention to someone -- or, for that matter, to any moment -- then we can't listen. If we can't listen, we can't possibly hear the whole story. And if we can't hear the whole story, then how can we ever hope to understand, let alone realize our actual role in it.

We can no more separate the way we experience any given moment from the level of consciousness involved in the way it unfolds than we can separate waves of water from the ocean that gives rise to them.

We will have to repeat whatever we fail to complete in (this) life... until that work is done.

Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view!

The agility of the "thinker" to explain and justify its mistakes -- AFTER it makes them -- is not insight; such "cleverness" is nothing more than its capacity to deceive itself, something it applauds each time it finds yet another way to navigate around the wreckage it tends to leave in its wake.

The painful experience we have to any unwanted moment is inseparable from being momentarily identified with our own negative reaction to it; which means -- all said and done -- that what we're actually suffering from, and uselessly struggling against in these moments -- is ourselves.

One of the hardest things to understand about the true spiritual path, and the struggles along the Way, is that the inner struggle we fear losing has already been won for us... if we will only (remember to) take our rightful place in the midst of that engagement...