Karma

Student Talks: 07/18/2025 - If we’re still talking to ourselves about some past, painful, unwanted moment—justifying, revisiting, or analyzing it—we can be sure the invisible, Divine purpose of that moment was not fulfilled. And this insight, for those with “eyes to see,” reveals a deeper truth: if the lesson remains unrealized, then so does our reason for having incarnated the forces responsible for its revelation. Within this truth lies a still greater one, for those who would be free: under celestial law, such moments must return—either to be repeated, or – in our acceptance of a Divine will that seeks to strengthen our relationship with it – to serve as the ground of spiritual renewal.

Remastered Classic Talk: 01/27/16 - The only way it's possible to be punished by some mistaken action on our part... is if we make the second mistake: allowing the same level of self that we followed into that "pit" to condemn and then punish us for the very misstep that it first assured us was the right one to take!

Student Talks: 6/7/2024 - Key Lesson: It's well known that storm-tossed waves often expose new treasures along the shoreline... and there is unexpected wealth to be collected by those who know the secret value of rough seas. And yet, even though most of us have little tolerance for anything that "rocks our boat," the truth of the matter is self-evident: Unwanted moments introduce us to dark parts of ourselves that would otherwise never be...

Student Talks: 7/21/2023 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Whenever you make someone else's karma your own, you'll always blame them for it. Part 2: An incomplete mind creates incomplete actions; incomplete actions have consequences. Part 3: Word made flesh... or, "war" made flesh; that's the question that sits at the heart of every moment of life, whether it is wanted, or not.

Student Talks: 7/7/2023 - Key Lesson: Here is why it's impossible to run after, let alone come to possess real peace of mind: the same moment we set out to do so... we disturb it.

Classroom Talk: 8/4/2021 - There can be no reconciliation with (painful) karma until we enter it understanding the following truth: whatever sacrifice is asked of us to release our suffering serves a higher purpose than can be known by the parts of us thus called to realize them; and to that Divine end -- and for it alone -- do we surrender ourselves to a Timeless Intelligence greater than our own.

Classroom Talk: 4/21/2021 - Part 1: Every moment spent in the love of wisdom, accompanied by our wish to keep its company regardless the cost, helps us build an unseen but eternal bridge between the deepest and highest parts of ourselves. Part 2: The importance of working to develop our attention is found in the appearance of a new kind...

Classroom Talk: 4/7/2021 - At every possible moment of crossing over into a new and higher level of consciousness, standing at the gate between each spiritual kingdom, there is a faultless, infallible celestial guard. His authority is absolute; it is backed by nothing less than the Balance of All There Is. He has but one timeless task...

Student Talks: 3/12/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: There is no desire within which isn't hidden -- much like the fabled Trojan horse -- some form of unseen pain that is its "partner in time." Part 2: Things are the way they are, because we are the way we are; the life we've made acts upon who we've become, just as who we become...

Classroom Talk: 5/17/2020 - Here's a glimpse of a higher level of self-knowledge that opens the door to the possibility of a karma-free life: Nothing moves that everything doesn't; so that if we learn to move with life itself, Life will take care of itself… and therein is our innocence, and our freedom guaranteed.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of August 13, 2018. Part 1: The fact that we always want something from the moment -- even if it's to not want what it offers, or has otherwise come to reveal -- blinds us to the fact that every moment is always giving us... showering us with the Light of a Life that wants for nothing.