When it comes to our wish to make real changes in ourselves, good intentions cost (us) nothing...and that's why the road to hell is paved with useless coins. On the other hand, making a conscious effort to change -- in the moment that calls for it -- comes with the cost of seeing ourselves as we really are – this awareness shows us not only the possibility of being release...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of February 5, 2018. Until we stop trying, in vain, to fill the empty moments of our lives with all of the distractions we pursue to quell that ache, we will never see, let alone realize this same sense of emptiness -- that we now resist -- is full of Light, a Living Awareness that neither fears nor wants for anything outside of its own Native Wholeness.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 5, 2015. Part 1: Negative assumptions precede the appearance of a disturbing fear, much in the same way as a chill in the wind comes before the storm that it heralds. Part 2: Before you can know and win the freedom of watching some fearful state walk right by you, you must learn what it means to let it walk right up to you... without resisting...

The reason we resist virtually all endings in our life -- wherein we feel as though something has been wrongfully taken away from us -- is because these same unwanted moments leave us feeling terribly empty inside ourselves. In truth, it is this overwhelming sense of emptiness that we detest, and not the changing condition itself that we so habitually protest. So when things naturally come t...

Topic: Loneliness, Heartache, and Depression; Questions: My partner wakes up cheerful and I wake up resistant; How does one actually 'stop complaining and start changing'; I feel stuck in my marriage but don't want to go through the discomfort of ending it; I stay in a loveless marriage because I fear that I won't learn the lessons I'm meant to learn; Is it okay to leave your partner if they'r...

Our present experience of life, its happiness or sorrow, is nothing more or less than what certain unconscious parts of us tell us it is. Before we can hope to change our life experience, we must stop trying to re-write the Book of Life and work instead to awaken ourselves from the dreams of the unseen storyteller within us.

We are a peculiar race of beings. On one hand, each of us professes to be concerned with growing and self-developing while, on the other hand, none of us ever wants to be wrong. This is a paralyzing contradiction...

Meekly submitting to any negative emotion in the hopes it will run its course and leave us alone just invites it to subjugate us again.

Part 1 If it's a Real Life that you seek, then you must stop thinking about it -- running after what you want from it -- and instead learn what it means to look at your life. Only this action -- of conscious self-observation -- can bring you to what your heart of hearts seeks above all else: the realization of another order of Self -- already present within yourself -- that is greate...

We can either spend our lives shaking in fear each time an unwanted moment arrives -- trying to protect ourselves from it -- or we can use that same situation to see through the false self that believes being fearful can lead to the end of being afraid...

There is a part of us that summarily rejects the moments when we see -- by a light that we would rather not see -- our actual condition. And in that moment of helplessness, we have a choice to recognize that were it not given to us in that moment by something greater than what we don't want to see, we would never be able to see it... and never have the opportunity to transcend ourselves...

Just as a river is refreshed -- each moment -- by the small creeks and streams that pour their waters into it, so are we meant to be renewed by the passage of Real Life as it pours into us, revealing all that it does... within us...