Topics covered: Comments on the lunch exercise; Our lowness should become more and more shocking to us when it appears; There exists a celestial disparity between the heaven and the earth, and the Christ nature is the bridge between them; Problems aren't painful, the pain is from a nature that enjoys the pain; The only problem we have is that we don't know how to have our own life; No one has...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of April 24, 2017. Part 1: Nothing True, Harmless, and Timelessly Good has ever taken root and flowered in this world that wasn't first sown by love, cultivated through sacrifice, and ultimately... watered by tears.

Disagree with the opinion of what others would have you believe is true, and they will secretly resent you; but quietly refuse to argue about anything with these same people, and they will openly cry out that you have abandoned them.

Topics covered: Is it possible to live without an agenda or ulterior motive; Parts of us are trying to stop our growth; Referring to yourself in the third person; Did Jesus Christ die for our sins; Can we help in the present those who have died; I've lost my inner light, can I get it back; Enduring criticism from those close to us; Can one always feel a true sense of well-being; Leaving an abu...

Topics covered:   You do not really understand something until you understand it with all parts of yourself. The intellect alone can only go so far, and can in fact hinder understanding; The New Testament story of Christ being tempted is the story of yourself. It is a teaching story that is your story; The last thing that we want to know is that we have no power of our own, and that all power belongs to, and comes from, what is higher than ourselves.

My life seems like an endless string of thoughts by which I know myself. I wonder if it's really even possible to live a thought-free life. How do I start knowing without thinking?...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of April 4, 2016. Justifying what we see in ourselves of an unkind, selfish, angry, or otherwise self-harming character -- that we know hurts us, and others -- is how the negative nature that nurtures and harbors these dark states hides itself from our view. It accomplishes this mean feat -- of being able to justify what is inherently unjust -- by conven...

In the end, all true knowledge -- including the Timeless gifts it grants -- is self-knowledge; which means whatever the nature of our present set of limitations -- physically, mentally, emotionally, and ultimately, spiritually -- it exists only as it does because of what we have yet to learn about ourselves.

True interior work always progresses in two directions at once because of the nature of real healing... and how the Holy Spirit acts upon the divided (self-opposing) mind. As we persist with our wish to be free, braving what we must witness in ourselves... we will see, usually in degrees (because of the mercy of the Divine), alternating glimpses of heaven and of hell. These visions (interior...

The end of suffering is not found in the pursuit of freedom from suffering, but in realizing the divided nature of desire that imagines and identifies with a pain-free time or a place to come, only to imprison itself in a fear it may lose the heaven it has imagined...

I asked Kate, the Foundation's assistant web master, to post the following thoughts in the GFN student forum, as a staff member had forwarded me a particular post there by someone who was going through a rough patch with another person and judging herself accordingly. This morning I decided to post that same message as a blog because, in one way or another, we must all awaken to, and be releas...

In this short talk, bestselling "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about what it means to wake up from spiritual sleep, which does not include comparing ourselves to what the world says it means to live an awakened life.