The present moment and our awareness of it are one consciousness, much in the same way as the Eye of The Beholder shares an awareness of both the mirror, and the object it reflects.

We are meant to become an observer of ourselves, watchful of both the content -- and the intent -- of everything arising from our own mind and heart.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of February 24, 2014. Resisting any unwanted or otherwise painful state guarantees its unseen cause that lies concealed within oneself will never be revealed. What remains concealed cannot be healed, which means its negative effect will never go away. Summary: self-revelation is the same as rising above whatever is pulling you down.

Conscious separation from any negative state -- through the deliberate effort to observe that state -- is a very different bit of business than trying to insulate or otherwise protect oneself from it, whatever that method may be.

Conscious separation from any negative state -- through the deliberate effort to observe that state -- is a very different bit of business than trying to insulate or otherwise protect oneself from it, whatever that method may be.

To begin seeing that negative states such as anger, impatience, worry, and fear have lodged themselves into the hidden corners of your heart is to discover how they have managed to win their spot.

Self-observation is the key to a higher order of awareness; it is how we learn to become inwardly vigilant to our own thoughts and feelings, even as they pass through us. When we can observe ourselves in this new way, our higher nature naturally prevails over any troubling thoughts or feelings that want to drag us down into their lower world...

Self-observation is the key to a higher order of awareness; it is how we learn to become inwardly vigilant to our own thoughts and feelings, even as they pass through us. When we can observe ourselves in this new way, our higher nature naturally prevails over any troubling thoughts or feelings that want to drag us down into their lower world...

In this short talk listeners are encouraged to discover the freedom in self-observation. Presently, we experience the pain of resisting the moments in life that we don't want without understanding that resistance is the limitation of possibility. But by consciously working to observe the moment instead of resisting it...

Self-observation is how we learn to become inwardly vigilant to our own thoughts and feelings, even as they pass through us. When we can observe ourselves in this new way, our higher nature naturally prevails over any troubling thoughts or feelings that want to drag us down into their lower world.

We cannot govern what we can't see, which is why the work to observe ourselves is the first step in learning to be self-ruling.

Topics covered: People who are addicted to something lie to themselves, listening to something in themselves that justifies their behavior; "An unexamined life is not worth living." (Socrates) The act of true self-observation is constant self-examination. Little by little, you will want to spend more time in a properly contemplative state; Through self-examination we see what it is interiorly that is presently harming us, instead of unconsciously agreeing...