We're always trying, one way or the other, to grab and maintain something that will make us feel safe and whole forever. The pursuit of that wholeness, of that security, is through what we commonly call "powers." When we think of our security, we think of the powers that we must have to maintain it -- whether it's trying to please other people, trying to have, keep, and gain more possessions, or struggling to get some kind of control over a relationship or...

Real power isn't the ability to imagine and implement an endless series of new solutions to old problems, but to awaken the higher understanding that allows us to transcend the need we have to live with any painful problems at all. Which would you rather have: a big fire hose with a hydrant and a fire to put out every day, or a life without fires in them? But what we have to examine here is...

We have in us, the way we are, this idea that somehow or other we are going to be the ones who make the world that we see work. This notion runs very deep and is strengthened in us, in part, by what is its partial truth. So we're very reluctant to see that for all of these years, and all of the things that we've been doing -- with ourselves and for ourselves -- that every other day we still se...

Real self-independence is the fruit of an awakened inner life. And just as fruit on a tree must develop into fullness following a certain order of natural events, so too is there a natural order of self-realizations that lead up to winning your own life and living it as you please. Every step along the way to this higher independent life is both the challenge and the reward. The challenge is...

The fall of fear begins with our heightened awareness of fear's presence. Out of this higher level of self-consciousness comes something as mysterious as it is grand: the spiritual intolerance of fear. This deep, nonnegotiable disdain for fear comes to us in advance of the powers we need to win our freedom from it. And the arrival of this supreme strength -- that ultimately leads to lasting...

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...

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...

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...

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"...

Student Talks: 11/13/2020 - Key Lesson: All forms of feeling stuck are the negative byproduct of having become unconsciously “fixated” on some moment in life that we don’t want!

Topics Covered: We throw ourselves, of our own free will, into a prison of feeling powerless. The fear of being powerless is self induced; We all suffer from POUR Syndrome: "Prisoner Of Unconscious Resistance/Reactions"; Humanity is the evidence that there is no peace in a "time to come"; All pursuit of power in order to be free only empowers what is powerless within us...