Humility

Student Talks: 1/26/2024 - Key Lesson: Never forget that no real spiritual effort is ever in vain, even when you're given to see some low estate into which you have fallen. In turn, always remember: the ocean into which all rivers eventually empty themselves is always at their lowest point, and that this lowly place is, in fact, the origin and source of their waters.

Topics covered: The last thing we want is to be in the lowest place, even though every true teaching talks about one's salvation being found not in pride nor in any of the possessions we have acquired; Your life has its own teachings. You alone can receive what you have been given to receive. Life is not a race to win, but a school for your higher education; Arrogance is the act of pushing everything away that does not correspond with the image we...

Topics Covered: Thoughts are the past; Thoughts are always incomplete; Be the witness of the judging consciousness; Seeing is not the same as thinking; Who and what you really are is immeasurable; Measuring yourself is misery; See what it is like to complain all the time; Real consciousness will not contradict itself; We do not escape a fear, we see through it; The present moment is...

Topics Covered: Conditioning is the extension of a consciousness trying to escape itself; Work to be conscious of a nature that never stops conditioning itself; The habitual tug of emptiness saying, "fill me"; Judging yourself is part of repetition; The moment we don't want is the level of consciousness that fears it; Crisis is a revelation factor; Identity and image are a singularity...

Student Talks: 5/31/2019 - Key Lesson: Sometimes the greatest measure of true interior strength is not what we're able to pick up -- or carry with us -- but rather... what we're able to consciously set down.

Student Talks: 1/13/2019 - Key Lesson: Here's why learning compassion for another -- putting yourself in his or her "shoes" -- is a good idea: not only is it likely that your paths will cross again but, odds are, next time round... you will be the one walking in their footsteps.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of September 3, 2018. It is a strange characteristic of most human beings that we would rather feel anxious and strained about things over which we have no power, than to do the one thing actually in our power -- for whose conscious practice we would know the very peace we claim to be seeking. And that is: to ground our attention in the fact of the momen...

There is probably no greater treasure than authentic higher self-knowledge but the reason that so few seek it, let alone make the kind of sacrifice needed to succeed in their quest...is because its realization leads one, inexorably, first to the shores...and then to the endless, open waters of uncharted seas.

Learn to appreciate people who would point out your faults to you because, right or wrong in their estimation (of you) it is your reaction to them -- for its negativity, or in its notable absence -- that proves what is true either way!...