Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of June 6, 2016. Part 1: Peace of mind cannot be pieced together anymore than it's possible to sew water, or weave sunbeams into light. Part 2: You cannot separate the onset of the disturbing moment in life from the appearance of some simultaneous new possibility to know a deeper and more unshakable sense of peace.

True nobility is not a question of birth right or social rank; it is the native estate of each soul that, upon awakening to its divine inheritance, knows the strength of these twin truths without having to think about them: justice and mercy are one, as is love and fearlessness.

Classroom Talk: 8/10/2022 - For those who love truth no door is locked, no secret is kept; all that is needed to be free is given... freely; and Life asks but one thing of us in exchange for this Gift: the willingness to unwrap ourselves.

True compassion ­– a patience that never punishes – is our yet realized right to “love our neighbor as ourself.” But this Grace belongs only to those who have seen – and who dare to remember – this one great Truth in a time of trial with those who trouble us: there is no separate self.

There are no enemies without someone, or something to blame for our pain; whereas, when we will be consciously aware of our suffering – without resisting it – then, is humility born; and where there is this order of humility there abides within it a love that will bear no enemy.

Classroom Talk: 4/8/2020 - In the relentless passage of time whatever has been created -- a pungent spice, the prize-winning rose, even one’s greatest accomplishment -- all lose their fragrance, as must all things in time. Only Love -- its Living Light -- remains undiminished; the scent of Heaven is... Eternal.

Student Talks: 11/29/2019 - Key Lesson: The painful illusion of being held a captive of any painful limitation is the dark dream of a false self that loves to imagine it’s been thrown into a dungeon, so that then... it can plan an effective way to escape it.

The mind that is still mirrors whatever passes into it, finding itself unable to tell whether its nature is that which reflects the form, or whether it is the form being reflected. Love, and its companion, compassion, is the inability to distinguish between these opposites.

Classroom Talk: 3/25/2023 - Our great hope dwells within whatever supports, strengthens, or sustains our love of truth, where much as candle light banishes any shadow before it -- revealing its nothingness -- so a living faith reveals that hiding just within any dark moment is a light that it knows not.

Why do I stay in a bad relationship with someone who gaslights me? We all want to know when to let go of a love relationship that is toxic. Guy Finley answers what is going on "within us" when we can't let go and stay involved in a bad relationship.

Classroom Talk: 10/31/2021 - Spiritual wisdom is our greatest wealth. And when, at long last we see this is true -- so that our first love in life becomes the wish to discover the truth of ourselves -- then each moment of every relationship serves as the doorway to the indwelling Divine.

Topics covered: Freedom is our birthright; Use this life to be enlarged by love; Watching yourself inwardly; Resistance produces the circle of self; Events reveal our inner condition; Thoughts and feelings are the real trouble; Psychological fear doesn't exist; Dying to yourself, rebirth, surrender, letting go; Stop drop and endure.