Whether in a simple truth tale, or in a moment of great personal crisis, don't fear what life is trying to show you about itself and about you. Don't be afraid to let the truth strike you. Welcome it! Yes! Don't resist anything that threatens to pull the rug out from under your feet...

Topics covered: It is Grace that shows us our limitations and weaknesses, even as almost nothing in us wants to know about them; We have been deceived into protecting something in ourselves that lives to ruin our own lives, and by extension the lives of others; Is anger a strength or a weakness? Anger deceives us into believing it is a strength, but it is a weakness, a limitation that resists the moment and limits our possibilities.

Do you feel like you can't embrace anything these days? You go to the store and encounter a scowling face. You hear some bad news, or you get a call, and you have a terrible reaction. You don't want to embrace it. You want to erase it! How many of you wish you had a giant eraser? And isn't that what we've been trying to do most of our lives when things go wrong?...

Events in our lives serve lessons. Lessons serve truths. And each truth that we will submit to changes us into a human being more whole than we were prior to the event. What we suffer over in life is lessons we have yet to learn. When we are in pain, it's because a lesson has been refused. For example, let's say you're talking to somebody and you see that you can't stop from saying something...

Topics covered: Is the part of me that sees my lower nature a higher nature or just something resisting it; What is the proper role of enthusiasm and commitment in our lives; Can you explain active and passive as relates to the masculine/feminine principle; How long should I work with a particular spiritual intention; I often receive inspiration while meditating but am unsure if I should inter...

Topics covered: What is inspiration and are there different ways to use it; How can these teachings be applied to art; What is the difference between denial of a problem and letting go of it; How can I better discern practical, necessary thought from unconscious, hurtful thought; How do we drop a disturbance without resisting it; Some of my passions are not supported by friends and family; Are...

Topics covered: All awakenings are both terrible and beautiful; You can only be awake to yourself when you are present to the sleeper; Metaphorically speaking, you can't sit at the table and eat if you haven't worked; You don't have your own life the way you think you do; As you work on yourself you will attract that which resists revelation (second force); Anything that talks to you about you...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of December 29, 2014. What can't be accomplished by someone willing to suffer for what he or she loves, especially given the fact that -- in this world, or the next -- love always prevails. On the other hand, examine the lives of those who know only to resist their suffering; the power that prevails therein... is pain: a dark power that progressively blo...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 18, 2016. Unconscious opposition to unwanted moments can never change the condition being opposed because the lower nature responsible for mounting this opposing force not only remains unchanged, but resists all that it does in order to ceaselessly re-create itself... Including the unwanted moments in which it always finds itself.

A man is walking through his office when his boss walks by and gives him a blank look. The thought pops into the man's mind that his boss is criticizing him or doesn't like him. Now, as he starts to fear this idea -- a negative picture produced by his imagination -- his mind focuses its attention on this disturbing image. And the more he attends to this dark dream, the further into its labyrin...

If you find yourself harboring resentment -- filled with angry thoughts or painful regrets -- having surrendered to the suffering induced by your own negative considerations... be warned: in the darkness of that nature is where affliction hides...

Until the peace and pleasure found within us is equal to -- or greater than any consolation found outside of ourselves -- then our power to be patient, loving, and profitable in every moment is, at best, conditional...