Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 21, 2013. If you'll spend the time to hunt down a nuisance rattle in your car because it disrupts the quiet ride you enjoy -- then why won't you take the time to uncover the source of that constant chattering and clattering in your mind, so as to know the silence for which you long?...

Natural resistance unnaturally resisted is the seed of suffering – it is tantamount to all forms of reincarnation. Natural resistance recognized – and realized – for what it is, and serves, accordingly – is the same as...

Question: A shift in consciousness is predicted and needed on our planet. What do you think this shift will be and what will it bring? Answer: First of all, it is not a global shift. Even though there may be global instances and I'm not going to discount the possibility of that. The true shift is the shift in we as individuals. And the shift in individuals, unfortunately, at this poin...

Question: Many paths emphasize the importance of balance and alignment. Can you comment on what it means to be "aligned"? Answer: Real alignment would be the ability of an individual to participate in life as it's happening. We have a mindset that starts falsely from a comparative basis. So when we hear the word "alignment" we think to ourselves as a positive outcome, in the flow. And when we...

Every great journey begins in faith, not with facts. The great explorers throughout history never had facts about the new worlds they were about to discover before they set out on their journeys. New worlds were discovered because these explorers had faith that they existed. It is through the journeying itself that we find what we really need, not in the collecting and mulling over of intellec...

Denying, or otherwise refusing to see the negative effect of any compulsive desire is like consenting to feed a wild wolf: first you give it the food in hand, and then... it takes your arm!...

Understood properly, any moment of defeat in life is the same as being introduced to the possibility of transcending that level of self that leads us to compromise ourselves in the first place.

Part I: Wholeness is the only True Happiness. Part II: You cannot escape your experience of life, but you can die to its continual recreation and be made New.

Emptiness does not, as we mistakenly perceive it, imply nothingness; rather, (it is) an available space -- a Divine place in time -- waiting to be filled.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 15, 2018. If you will learn to tend to every thing that appears in your life in its time, then it won't be long before the whole idea of being anxious over anything will just quietly give way to this ceaseless revelation, accompanied by its peace-giving realization: there is nothing more important for you to do, no other place for you to go...

Guy Finley explains that fear is not real any more than the shadow of an object is the object itself. It is merely a projection of a nature that has set itself against what is real. Just as we cannot defeat the hydra by attacking its individual heads, we must work to see and change the nature itself that uses the many heads of fear to divert us from its hiding place in us.

The only real and final victory in life is... over life: the realization and entrance into a higher world wherein who you are -- your True Self -- can neither be diminished by the passage of time, nor increased by some capricious change in circumstance.