Topics covered: Discussion of Guy's new book on Relationship Magic; The same love that brought us together keeps us together when some of the thrill turns to a chill; We are here on this earth to fulfill our own spiritual possibility and highest attributes; We enter into relationships not knowing we place unseen demands on the other person to be responsible for making us feel whole, complete a...

There is a very old, familiar expression that states, "The journey of 10,000 miles begins with a single step." That commonly used phrase has a great interior, spiritual meaning. It is saying, "Wherever you are, whatever you have to do, no matter what it is that is in front of you... Just start!" Anyone who has ever done some sort of physical exercise on a regular basis knows that sometimes th...

Topics covered: You've already lost any fight you engage in; Who I am depends on what room of my house I'm currently in; We're driven by incomplete experiences; We don't pass through life, life passes through us; There is something in me that would rather hate itself than see the hater; Don't try to be, choose to see; There is a relationship between spiritual maturity and saturation of experie...

Long before it's possible for us to be spiritually reborn, we must first awaken to ourselves. Awakening is the sudden realization that somehow or other what I took to be the only world isn't the only world. Because the way the mind works now, it looks out and there's just this world with you that messes with it and me that wants it right. It's all one world to me.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of February 1, 2016. Once living within the limits of what is known is also realized as being the limitation of our spiritual possibilities, there is no recourse other than to depart from the safety of all that we have been... in favor of discovering all that we may yet become.

Effortless contentment appears as unconscious resistance -- along with its “partner in conflict” -- involuntary insistence, disappears.

Spiritual awakening is the realization of one's (own) consciousness becoming aware of itself; where self-integration is the same as transcending the suffering born of the temptation to identify with "one side, or the other" of every passing event. This level of consciousness can't be deceived into seeing any opposite as "good," or -- its other side -- as "evil"... because it knows, without tak...

There will be moments in our spiritual life in which it will feel as though we have nothing -- in which there seems to be no promise. It is during these difficult times that we will have to make a choice. We can do as we have always done in these moments of feeling empty and search for an escape through some form of distraction. Or we can choose to become truly conscious of the feeling, not be...

I have been studying metaphysics/positive thinking/spiritual truths for many years and in some ways I have grown from it. However, at this late date in my life I have to look up and say: "So what's it all about, really? " After all this knowledge, and acting on it most of the time, I am left without a friend, and now I have cut ties with my children. I have lost everything I ever possessed. I...

Topics covered: Presently our lives are much more about the avoidance of life rather than the fulfillment of its  possibilities. That consciousness cultivates pleasures and avoids pain: We avoid running into anything that we don't presently understand: Something inside of us that is more than just the physical body wants to go beyond the physical, to understand more about the whole of life: Spiritual development is voluntary...

Classroom Talk: 3/6/2024 - Part 1: When fear creates morality, as well as the rules governing them, there is no longer morality... and it is fear that governs. Part 2: That we should search only our own conscience for confirmation of what is good and true, this is the best definition of integrity; for that which is good and true is not social in nature, but spiritual in need and in deed.

Topics covered: Everything that happens to you is meant to be a lesson learned; What you need to be rescued from is yourself; Instead of using energy to build something for oneself, the spiritual aspirant instead uses that energy to discover more about him or herself; Your experience of life is a direct reflection of your consciousness; You can't run from suffering and ever understand its real source...