Blaming conflict-filled feelings on any condition or person outside yourself is like getting angry at your shoes for being laced too tight. So here's an effective inner life step designed to help you grow and to develop greater spiritual strength: No matter what happens, never blame anyone -- or anything -- for the way you feel. Rising above the blame game is the same as learning how to be in...

Do you remember the opening lyric to the classic song "Love and Marriage?" If not, allow me to refresh your memory: "Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage." Along with its memorable melody, this particular song has endured the test of time because hidden in the heart of its simple lyric is a celestial law about the power of attraction. If you recall, the rest of the lyric go...

However expressed in us - from the lowest level of sensual life pushed along by pure desire, to that incessant drive to make ourselves special in the eyes of the world, to those loftier ambitions of longing to be an instrument of the creative life, whatever its form, be it lower or higher - it is Love that moves us. It is Love that guides us. It is Love that we seek and find. How? Because it i...

Between our known negative reactions towards those who we perceive to have offended us, and that healing unknown Love that restores us to the truth of each other, is hidden a kind of conscious changing ground... an inner realm whose entrance is gained by willing intention to Love, and whose sanctuary is won through self-sacrifice. Have you ever been so upset, so disturbed by someone, that i...

I am taking the biggest "risk" of my life and am about to leave a longstanding job for a new home business opportunity. Although I have basically kept my old job out of fear, there is quite a bit of fear in leaving the known and "safety" for the unknown. Any tips on how to make this new adjustment in life and to quell the uncertainty? I want to be brave in scary situations, but when I am frigh...

Before I dream may I hope for you. Before I long may I reach for you. Before I judge may I listen to you. Before I rush may I rest with you. Before I shout may I call on you. Before I doubt may I hear from you. Before I brag may I point to you. Before I fear may I trust in you. Before I act may I remember you... So that in these things, in all I do, It is not I that am first,...

Topics covered: In the end all dissatisfaction comes from not being connected to the source of our life; There is no such thing as psychological fear without negative imagination; Don't look for power. Instead realize where you have agreed to be powerless; Judging a fear is fear's action; The majority of the world thinks that success is the ability to cover up fear...

Topic: Realize the Perfect Security of a Power that Is Not of this World (Classroom Talk 12/13/23)

Topics covered: The only way it is possible to want to avoid any moment is that we are asleep to the possibilities in that same moment; Our powers that we imagine we possess abandon us whenever we need them the most; The mind's endless juggling is about trying to find a way to get past disturbances to the place of peace it has imagined in a time to come; The endless struggle is about trying to gain the powers necessary to restore peace and security...

Classroom Talk: 12/13/2023 - We can't be more than we are given to see -- and to be -- IF we agree to allow that awareness to serve its given purpose in each moment. Which is to do what? To reveal -- at once -- all that remains concealed (from us) about our consciousness... so that it might be reconciled, re-integrated, and realize itself as part of a whole greater than the sum of its parts.

Student Talks: 11/27/2020 - Key Lesson: Only by daring to see the truth of ourselves in challenging moments will we ever see, and then be set free by the revelations that await us there. For instance, the "weight" of any relationship that seems to overpower us is inseparable from our resistance to what it brings up in us...

Topics Covered: We're anxious, worried and fearful because we live with an interior bully that we know nothing about; We have to prove to ourselves what our intuition already tell us, which is that we are not here on earth to hoard as many possessions as possible so that we can live free from disturbances forever; The acronym MOIB stands for "My Own Inner Bully"...