Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of June 3, 2013. Presence, the actual present moment, is not the outcome of the past, or a door to some imagined future; it is the culmination of Time. Real life is not a result... anymore than the ocean is the outcome of its waves.

Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. The very fact that you know there's farther to go before your journey to freedom is complete also tells you that wherever you...

Classroom Talk: 10/4/2020 - Part 1: Any form of (psychological) suffering that looks back into the past for its "cause" -- or to the future, in the hope of some imagined freedom to come -- isn't just useless, it's wasted. Part 2: Here is the real "secret" of starting over: No moment in life can be any newer than we are willing to be as it dawns within us...

Stop being a victim of "Yesterday's News"! Calling on "what was" to deal with "what is"... is like being stranded on a deserted island, without any food, and hoping to make your growing hunger pains go away by reading and re-reading "Best Places to Dine Around Town"... the one magazine that washed up with you when you staggered onto shore.

Topics covered: return and remain, painful past, bad memories, dissociative disorders, separation, getting over depression, reconciling, reconciliation, forgiveness...

Topics Covered: The more you speak something with all of yourself, the more all of you becomes what you speak; The past doesn't trail you, it meets the moment with you; We currently use our relationships to validate ourselves, but we're meant to use them for revelation; I don't want to meet the pain, I don't want to meet the moment as I am; The strength of God is connected to my weakness; Your...

Classroom Talk: 12/8/2019 - Part 1: Each time some desire-created 'I' dreams of a better tomorrow to come, it "sees" that future in the THOUGHTS it weaves to dress it up. But thought -- by nature -- is of the PAST, which means that ALL of our newly imagined tomorrows... are secretly a set of secondhand clothes. Part 2: What is any...

We are not meant to be the slave of any negative thought or feeling, nor are we intended to live under the limitations inherent in these darkened states. Our true role is to be the sovereign governor of our interior lives and all that this spiritual estate implies. It is our spiritual right to decide what kind of thoughts and feelings are permitted to roam through our consciousness and to rule...

Topics covered: A chief feature of a divided mind is to judge; Most of what bothers you about other people is what they've stirred in you; When you really change you change in both directions of time; Your awareness of your long body is what changes your past; We have no humility in the face of our negative states; Observation creates humility; Something in me wants to be safe and right; A tru...

Knowledge doesn't exist without the past, while the Light of higher self-awareness has no past.

If regret is the act of a divided nature that keeps itself in place by regretting itself, then remorse is pain that nullifies this false sense of self. And that is why remorse is so rare -- and why it is so holy. It is written: "Blessed are the poor in spirit, those who mourn for the sake of righteousness..."

Allowing anything to eat at you, by consenting to sit down with it at the "table of torment," serves nothing... save the pleasure of some dark and "hungry" part of you that lives only to consume negative energy.