Topics covered: Sensation, emotion, and intellect try to pass themselves off as love, but are not; We've lost the ability to feel life; You find your way on the inner path through experience; There is no burden that someone else is carrying around that isn't ours, too; Only the heart is in relationship with real life; The last thing I want to see is the burden of being me; Learning to ask, 'Wh...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of August 3, 2015. Part 1: The love of any moment is inseparable from the sacrifice we must make to be in it. Part 2: Learning (how) to ask for a conscious relationship with the Divine begins and ends in the single supernatural action of giving ourselves to Him, to His Life. Only when we see -- and then agree to embody these seemingly opposing motions as...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of December 1, 2014. Part 1: Those who seek the Kingdom of Heaven are always in the right place, at the right time, to see their cup filled, and to drink from it... as freely as they will. Part 2: You have been granted a relative forever; a living 'time' in which to either find a freedom and permanent fulfillment that only love can provide... Or, to live...

Many times the very thing we want from others is the very thing that we ourselves either lack at the moment or otherwise somehow are withholding from them.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 22, 2018. The grand illusion and, in the end, the unseen source of psychological fear and pain is our unconscious perception of disquieting moments that "tells" us we are not responsible, let alone accountable, for the unwanted experiences that come our way.

We cannot hope to find true peace without fulfilling the purpose of (our) life, and we can’t fulfill that purpose without awakening to the Web of Divine Relationships...

Tell me! Where are you going just now... in the heat of such a hurry? Always in a rush somewhere, to do something and still... nothing real changes. And so one must ask: why do you believe... in distance? Such a strange religion...

No seed -- whether a kernel of corn, or a special talent -- can prove itself more valuable than the sweat it takes to sow it -- cultivate & nourish it -- until it offers up its latent Good.

My sister's husband abandoned her, and she is left angry and hurt. She has asked me how to get past this. How can I help her? (From student correspondence)...

What can I do to stop living in the past? My main goal in life is to be as happy as possible. What would be the one thing I could do over and over again every day to achieve this goal? I think I'm in love with by "chatter-brain." When I do come awake to the present moment, thought does stop. It's extraordinary, but before I know it, I'm jabbering on again. My noisy mind must be what I pref...

Could you give some insight into loneliness and how to abolish it? At times it seems to me that the more I realize about the awesome nature of spiritual love, the more loneliness I feel in my current human relationships. I long to share my discoveries with others, but who do I turn to? Sometimes I feel a deep loneliness in my heart. I know I have many tools to be happy, and the most important...

The false self, forever struggling to protect (the dream of) its own imagined importance, cares nothing for how it sabotages itself, or victimizes others...