Nothing is created to “have and to hold,” but rather always to be transformed by the Greater Life in which it is held, and that acts upon it... in order to bring about and reveal the infinite possibilities inherent in its continual perfection.

The one great exercise of prayer is... To come wide awake and to place the center of myself into the center of my will and... Having done so, take this gathering of attention and surrender it wholly to my God...

Painful thoughts, feelings of regret, the fear of some dark tomorrow: all point to a “distant fire” as the source of our suffering, even as they blow smoke in our eyes to ensure we don't see that they are what's burning us in any troubling moment.

Much as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so it holds true: our experience of any given moment -- for its light or darkness -- its joy or sorrow -- is cast in the image of the consciousness momentarily awakened to reflect upon itself.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of April 30, 2018. Let every search for a solution to the suffering you feel begin in the unlit corners of your own consciousness, and soon you will never again wonder "why" you feel the worries, fear, and the bitterness that you do.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 30, 2017. Part 1: The great secret of getting ourselves "unstuck" -- of being empowered to leave behind us those problems that life seems to set before us -- is to understand that before we can learn to walk through whatever stands in our way, we must take the first step of learning to willingly enter into it.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of August 28, 2017. Fearing failure, he fails; being willing to fail, he succeeds in freeing himself from the fear of failure. Being free of the fear of failure, he stops resisting whatever seems to oppose his will. He succeeds in all the days that follow because he's learned the greatest lesson that earthly life has to offer: when his will is the same a...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 27, 2017. Part 1: In this life we either grow out of what we're willing to see as true about ourselves or -- in the unconscious rejection of these healing revelations -- we shrink into a crystallized manifestation of whatever we've been deceived into hiding from ourselves.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of June 27, 2016. The repetition of patterns, even painful ones, is a form of safety to a mind that prefers to remain asleep to itself... because in the continuation of the known it finds a fitful kind of rest, even as it talks to itself about how much it hates being stuck in a rut!...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of April 27, 2015. The dawning awareness of how much you need the Divine in your life - to help open your heart, and to heal your mind -- is the same as 'how' to ask for... and receive this Grace; and the more real grows your spiritual need, the sooner comes a Celestial response.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 2, 2015. Conscious Love is the Divine interior act of intentionally suffering the pain and sorrow of those we meet along the way; it must include our willingness to consciously sacrifice any part of us that wants to avoid, or otherwise look away from this suffering... simply because it makes us momentarily aware of our own.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 27, 2014. Until the peace and pleasure found within yourself is equal to -- or greater than any consolation found outside of yourself -- then your power to be patient, loving, and profitable in every moment is, at best, conditional.