Topics Covered: Who is going to heal who?; How do I stop suffering?; Everything happens for a purpose; Relationship to reality; Finding our natural place in unwanted moment; The pain lies the not wanting nature, not in the event it doesn't want; Why do we stay with abusive people?; Wanting to remember the Divine; Making a new start, starting over; Stop hurting yourself...

Your awareness of troubled thoughts and feelings roaming through you is the power that keeps their harmful and self-limiting influences from having control over you.

Topics covered: We don't understand the significance of being present; If you would remember the Divine you would never forget yourself; The true love of God is the willingness to be present to the light of God at all times; Everything that's wrong in your life is there when there's no love in you; Using reason to develop right emotion; The only hope you have to have a full-blown relationship...

In order to nurture our own awakening, we must first see the need to let go of those parts of us that we sense no longer serve us. This new kind of self-awareness is the interior “seed state” needed to outgrow and transcend our former level of self. But these seeds of higher self-knowledge must, in turn, become new actions if they are to awaken us to our immortal Self...

Topics covered: The purpose of your work at this stage of development is the continual realization that you're nothing; Your task is to see, not to be; Our tendency is to love the feeling of being absorbed; We are intended to be an experience; Personality is a machine; Your spiritual work gives you new things to remember and a new place within yourself to integrate them; It's the task of the a...

The more clearly we can see that it's impossible to reach a place of rest by rushing to get there, the sooner we'll arrive at the true solutions that allow us to relax, slow down, and realize the relaxed pace of an inwardly liberated life.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of February 23, 2015. Whenever you find yourself in the grip of some mental or emotional suffering, your first action must be -- assuming your wish is to be free -- to remember this one, all-important spiritual fact: no dark state can enter into your heart or mind, let alone remain there, without first having deceived you into welcoming it in, and then c...

Here is a new and true beginning you can start with today that will put you in the right place for leaving an old self-defeating choice behind you for good: Any time someone criticizes or corrects you, dare to go against your habitual urge to defend yourself. Instead of reacting with heated resistance to something you don't want to hear about yourself, just listen to what's being said.

Topics covered: Every time we have a rude awakening, the realization is quickly covered up with a new dream; There is something in you that lives to make sure that you forget what you need to remember; The problem with our model by which we will achieve endless happiness, is that the model does not stand the test of time; Until you experience for yourself the fact that nothing dies, you will always be afraid of death.

Looking for the power to be happy is not found in a person, place, possession, idea, or belief, but through the new understanding that your higher, permanent nature needs no power outside of itself in order to be in charge of an inner or outer attacker.

Standing at the window -- always looking outside of yourself -- it's easy to forget that you're also standing inside the house given to you by your Father. There is no shelter outside; all distant castles are dreams. There is no place to rest outside of your Self. Outside yourself there is no hearth whose fire keeps you warm; you'll find no light that never falters. Standing at the win...

Have you ever thrown your hands in the air and asked yourself "What in the world is going on with me? How come my best intentions and the ability to accomplish them seem to live in two different universes?" We intend not to run off like a mad human being, spending money ill-afforded. We intend not to do something mean-spirited or otherwise self-defeating. Yet that is often just what we do...