There is never a good reason to go along with feeling bad about yourself...

We are born into a world, into a mind that convinces us of the ways we must go about pursuing power, so that when we find ourselves feeling negative -- worried, stressful, angry, frightened -- it's because we are in relationship with something inside of ourselves that has told us we will lose power if things don't go as we imagine they should. So we wind up serving our imagination and a body of desire that we have no essential awareness of at all...

Questions: Disillusionment about the spiritual teacher and path I've been studying; How to properly thank my father and deal with his imminent death; How do I balance sadness and faith; I'm having trouble dealing with a recent relationship breakup; Clarification about the meaning of the word 'evil' in scripture; What is the lower nature; Observing my changing 'I's'; How can I reconcile dark ac...

Have you ever noticed how the more negative you get, the more difficult everything about your life becomes, including being able to do the simplest things? It's like suddenly sinking into dark molasses, where not only can't you move, but everything you don't want seems stuck to you!...

Would you like to make the most out of every moment of your life? If we want to make the most out of every moment of our life, we have to let every moment in our life touch us. We have to learn to listen to it, to receive it. If we want to be lifted by it, we have to let it hold us. But instead of being touched by moments, we're touched by thought. We're touched by irritation...

A crisis arises when some lie we have deceived ourselves with is revealed to be just that: a lie. But never are the healing powers of the truth so close as when a crisis is at hand. The reason a crisis must precede each new level of authentic self-unity is that the crisis, whatever it may be, points out where we have been holding on to a particular belief, a shaky pretense, or some flattering...

Lesson 14: Once we understand how to use them... life's many unwanted twists and turns are no longer seen as being just isolated, disjointed experiences under whose yoke we are born to be burdened, but instead are realized as unique opportunities whose rewards are the lessons that can lead us, if we will follow, up to and through the successful education of our soul. Lesson 17: When...

One maxim of self-development I sense is true is that the way out of any stressful situation is to "go through it." How does the approach apply to reducing stress-producing thought-attacks? Everything depends upon our ability to inwardly discriminate between thoughts and feelings that are for us as opposed to those that are against us. Whenever confronted with an onslaught of internal impress...

Student Talks: 12/05/2025 - 

Part 1

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; it abides there, breeding the conflict it has with the natural tides of life, waiting to consume those who consent to enter the hell wherein it dwells.

Part 2

The hell in which we dwell is the conflicted experience of a conditioned mind trapped in a time it can't escape because it recreates it each time it returns there to resist and relive, again, a time of its own making!

 

 

Part I: You have a secret feature of yourself that cannot be dominated by a dark thought or fearful feeling any more than a crashing ocean wave can crush the life out of a ray of sunlight. Part II: An Advanced Lesson in Letting Go Whenever our pain over some unwanted condition is unconsciously allowed to become the condition itself that we don't want, then we lose sight that this switch in ou...

The perfection of each and every moment is realized by seeing each and every moment perfectly...

Here is a very simple set of six steps leading to a special order of higher self-command. The more you study and practice the insights that follow, the sooner will appear in you the presence of a whole new kind of self-command that never ceases to perfect itself, moment to moment, no matter what challenge life brings to your door. Step 1: Begin by realizing that your heightened awareness of a...