The way we think of ourselves is a reflection of our past; Learn to live with what you see; Ideas are not action, knowledge is not wisdom; You suffer over your present understanding; Love never interferes with another person's life; All of your actions have ambition in them; There is no reaction without position; You are here to outgrow a level of consciousness; Real acts of will...

Your true nature is fearless because it lives for one reason only: to be the unflagging instrument -- moment-to-moment -- of whatever love asks it to be.

Topics Covered: Allow the moment to act on you; Make the choice and be done with it; Only the witness can understand the consciousness that it is witnessing; Consciousness is not bound by time; A person who loves something is free of ambition; Addiction to achievement; Staying with the direct revelation; Change takes place in two directions at the same time; Do not try to escape yourself...

Topics covered: Your mind never stops looking for something that troubles or bothers it; when it's not looking, then it falls into a daydream and delivers itself into the hands of something that requires you to struggle with it; I Sweat You - ISWTUE - Instant Struggle With The Unwanted Experience; What's the unseen purpose behind every ambition? I want to be free. I'm looking for a way to end all of my struggles in life.

Topics covered: Recognizing the difference between what thought is and isn't useful for; Your work is to bring yourself to the point of shocks; Reactions (exterior actions) start with inter-actions (interior actions); You don't think in scale, you see in scale; The use of shame is never through thought; What we call ambition is actually misplaced yearning for love; To be a human being is to be...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of September 29, 2014. We can't change others -- or the purpose of any given moment as it unfolds; but we can work to place one less demand upon both. Only in this action can we hope to find the freedom for which we seek, because the only thing that imprisons us -- in the end -- is our resistance to whatever runs against our deeply seated demands.

Part 1 Before we can have a conscious relationship with what is Timeless, before we can know a "peace that passes all understanding," there must come a series of (conscious) shocks that prove the truth of the following to us: any imagined time, power, or possession to come -- by which we are forever set free from worry and fear...

Can you count the number of times you have been present in a moment of your life and realized how much you wished you weren't you? That you hadn't done what you just did, and wished you would never do it again... loathing yourself for your weakness, despising yourself for your ambition that compromises you with every step you take, feeling frightened over some possession you've managed to acquire in the hope of some freedom it promised...

Nothing is wrong with desiring financial independence, but this kind of freedom isn't what you really want. What you really want is freedom from a self that torments you each time it compares itself to others it imagines are happier than you are because of what they possess. Truth be known, these people are possessed by a kind of spirit that can never be satisfied, as evidenced by the fa...

Topics covered: Spiritual parables and symbols are intended to convey celestial principles that words cannot explain; One of the chief deceptions that we fall for is that something is missing from our lives, and that we will be able to acquire it in a time to come. As a result, we don't want anything that gets in the way of that ambition; We spend our lives trying to possess what we perceive to be good, and avoid anything that is judged to be bad.

Can we agree that our fearful conclusions about our life experiences are born of an incomplete perception? That when I see something wholly, there is a different quality to the event than when I look at something and it formulates for me my sense of identity? And then the next thing I know, I feel isolated. And when I'm isolated, strangely enough, I'm still overwhelmed with fear!

Topics covered: True humility is rare; Human beings are here for a specific purpose; Discussion of Guy's book The Secret of Your Immortal Self; The nature of timelessness and timeless experiences; What it means to receive the invitation of the Divine; Fighting with the world changes nothing; The feel is real but the why is a lie; We have forgotten that we are loved; How to use moments for lear...