Whenever we find ourselves confused, depressed, angry with someone, or upset with ourselves for whatever reasons, we must come wide awake and realize -- through our inner awareness -- that we suffer as we do because we are ruled in these moments by our own thoughts and feelings.

Just as a ship lost at sea must make a course correction if it hopes to reach a safe harbor, so must the aspirant be willing to be corrected by life if there's to be any hope of sighting the shore of heaven. And it isn't really so much that life (itself) corrects us, as it is that it reveals us to ourselves presenting us the opportunity to be self-correcting. But, when one considers that there...

Topics covered: No negative state is a real feeling. Negative states are all born out of sheer resistance to a condition; Pure emotion is the result of a relationship between the observer and the observed. It's a feeling generated in the moment by the field that you are in; A real impression in any moment is the realization of your highest possibility in that same moment; You are always in a field of some kind, and everything you experience is a result of that field.

GF: Welcome everyone. Before we begin tonight I want to discuss a very simple but invaluable idea. We are going to look into what it means to be a Friend of Truth. This kind of Friendship makes all things possible. Without it, a Real Life is impossible. Before we tackle the idea of what it means to be a Friend of Truth, let's do a bit of preliminary thinking toward the whole idea of "friendsh...

Remastered Classic Talk: 1/25/17 - Being "clever," or "strong" enough to escape unwanted moments is not the same as escaping the fearful nature within us that creates them. Freedom, real freedom, is not being able to successfully avoid the things we fear; rather, it is the moment-to-moment realization of a relationship with the whole of Life... wherein we can see that who we are, our True Self, has nothing to fear in this world, or in any other.

There is no emptiness; there is no fullness. There is only their dance, in an endless turning...

What goes with us everywhere, that never makes a sound, but that without its company... we wouldn’t be able to hear anything? Silence!

There is no greater feature that we human beings have than the presence of a living Light within us whose very nature knows what is its own and what is not its own... because when at last we let go of all that is not our own -- all the mistaken conclusions, and the painful contusions they cause as we anxiously search to remedy what ruins us -- we find that we already have everything...

Topics covered:  The purpose of life is to wake up from the dream life you are in and discover a new relationship with the life that is everlasting; If regret is such a great tool for self change, then why doesn't it work? We go over regrets constantly, so something in us must believe that they are useful; Regret does not transform the self. It ensures the continuation of the lower nature that condemns us through those same regrets.

Topics covered: Nothing that's talking to you about you is you; Discerning prayer to escape myself vs. wishing to be a doer of the Word; Anything you do to escape your condition increases your relationship to it; The mind that creates a problem can only meet it by trying to escape it; Love is the right way to pray towards God; God knows what you want, so why don't you let him give it to you; G...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of November 25, 2013. Part 1: There is an unseen, unheard constant communication, a communion that exists between -- and within -- all things created, throughout all of the cosmos. Part 2: The reason that (spiritual) fulfillment favors those who persist (in its pursuit) is because nothing comes into creation that isn't the offspring of a relationship res...

Topics covered: Is it possible the Divine would start looking for us early in life; What are the dangers of spiritual arrogance; We seem to live in our own private worlds, but is there a common, objective world; How does one remember oneself; What is the difference between true feeling and derivative feelings; What is the relationship between the mind and the brain; What is the difference betw...