Topics covered: How do you practice presence; Do we ever outgrow the need for the universe and its lessons; How do I let my shame teach me; Christ's ministry and working with the temptations of a dualistic mind; Seeing through physical pain and its illusions; Seeing one's own self-centeredness; Reconciling predator vs. prey with the idea that God is Love; Why do our minds take us down the path...

Topics covered: The nature of experience is revelation; All experience is connected; We are raised by Mother Nature; The sum of your experience is not derived solely from sensation; Every insight that is not rejected serves to strengthen your ability to receive the next impression; You have to love perfection more than you fear the hell you have to go through in order for the perfection to act...

Topics covered: The path of negation is what leads to the end of identification; Dropping a state is not the same as transfiguration of the character that embodied the state; Anything talking to you is an act of imagination; Unless you come to completely doubt yourself, you will never grow; Loathing oneself is the flip side of loving oneself; Doubt should be your instant companion in the face...

Topics covered: Recognizing the difference between what thought is and isn't useful for; Your work is to bring yourself to the point of shocks; Reactions (exterior actions) start with inter-actions (interior actions); You don't think in scale, you see in scale; The use of shame is never through thought; What we call ambition is actually misplaced yearning for love; To be a human being is to be...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 19, 2015. No one who loves the Divine, who embraces the Truth, need ever fear what life may bring down the road. Remember: the effects of passing time must, necessarily, act upon what is created; that's what time does. But within you lives something Timeless, and its Life can't be touched by temporary events or fading energies anymore than a s...

Part 1: Real-life is the ceaseless expression of converging celestial forces as altogether they manifest what 'cries out' to be harmonized in creation by the (merciful and loving) will of the Creator. Part 2: Most everything that we think we 'see'... isn't as it appears to be; that's why 'wait and watch' is the true path that leads to the summit of higher self-knowledge.

If the Truth we profess to love isn't demonstrated by our actions moment-to-moment, day-by-day, then what those same actions demonstrate is the extent of hypocrisy in which we live. There is only one cure for this kind of spiritual self-delusion: The honesty to see ourselves as we are, followed by whatever personal sacrifice we must make to start 'walking our talk.'...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of September 9, 2013. Here is the great prerequisite to realizing the Higher Life and Love for which you long: You must uncover why you consistently allow one thing -- i.e., one unwanted event, one disparaging comment, any old regret or familiar fear to become your all... instead of meeting these passing moments with the understanding that the All is mea...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of August 26, 2013. Until the peace and pleasure found within you is equal to -- or greater than any consolation found outside of yourself -- then your power to be patient, loving, and profitable in every moment is, at best, conditional; nothing better serves to sustain anger, frustration, and fear than being identified with a level of self whose life is...

Dyed-in-the-wool alcoholics don't care whether they get their next buzz from a $5 or $500 bottle of bourbon. In much the same way, our lower nature -- that loves and lives only for some kind of sensation -- drinks without discrimination from whatever 'bottle' is at hand; it cares for one thing, and one thing only: that it might lose itself in yet another temporary titillation.

For those who seek to discover the truth behind their inconsolable discontent, every now and then certain individuals appear who are able to provide insight and guidance.

We have not been given this precious life in order to go through it resisting everything that doesn't suit us; rather we are created to grow through whatever we meet along the way.