Topics covered: If you were present in your life, you would never have questions about it; Is there any value in revisiting failed past relationships; Relationship Magic also applies to your relationship with thoughts and feelings about the past; The past doesn't repeat itself, it's you that repeats; When thought examines thought, nothing changes; Are fantasies okay; Feeling stuck caring for s...

Topics covered: Your life is a series of transitory moments; We have an insane urge to be special; Every idea about your individuality has to be discarded; What you become identified with does not want you to become aware of it; Humility must precede a change in being; In complete uncertainty there's no conflict; The purpose of a school is to feed the individuals in it; The more you imagine a...

Starting life over again is the key to a new you. Never mind all of those thoughts and feelings that may be telling you this is impossible -- those inner whisperings that either deny the need for this self-newness or that scoff at its possibility. Brush them away with the following helpful insight: self-defeat in the past does not prove that self-victory doesn't exist. Defeat of any kind in li...

Any wave of resentment, anxiety, or fear that comes to wash you away is nothing more than a kind of psychic residue left over from who you once were.

Have you ever had appear in your mind the image of someone who hurt you, or run a whole mental movie about something that didn't work out, so that in recalling the event you actually relived the sense of loss? How does such a painful image seem to stay in the mind, especially given the fact of how much we struggle to make it go away? We all know how it feels to try and "fix" such visitations,...

Whenever we find ourselves in some "unwanted" part of ourselves, perhaps reliving an old heartache or caught in the throes of some irrepressible anger, old fear, or unyielding worry, part of this unwanted moment includes our certainty that we're trapped in this condition. And compounding our confusion over feeling ourselves captive in this way are all of the attending negative inner voices. Th...

The past can't be forgiven because that's not where the Christ, the living Light and Love by whatever name... lives. Only atonement -- being in Presence -- can place you where you see that who you really are is not (in) the past you're ashamed of.

Topics covered: Seeing where we are standing in our own way; Love existed before a 'dark event' and continues to exist after; Thinking that we possess something is an illusion; We are created with the capacity to continually discover deeper and more meaningful truths about ourselves; Why reliving the past is a problem; It's much harder work to remain the same than it is to change; There is no...

Somewhere in a remote region of the Southwestern United States, a park ranger was seated in his high tower. It overlooked the deep canyons and ravines that ran through the national park where he'd worked for the past twenty years. Looking out over the terrain through his binoculars, he could see a thunderstorm gathering in the west and knew it was only a matter of minutes until a flash flood w...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of February 19, 2018. Unconsciously identifying with any form of (psychological) pain doesn't just enhance, nourish, and help sustain the persistence of that suffering, but it also makes it seem more formidable, as you unwittingly increase its strength with each failed attempt to escape its mounting pressure.

The living now is a timeless Presence; it is neither the outcome of the past, nor a door to some imagined future; passing time is just one of the ways in which that which is always present appears, but this apparent movement of time no more defines or confines Real Life than the rising and setting of the sun changes the nature of light.

Nothing in the universe can make you relive the ache of some past psychological pain. This means that any misery over a mistake in your past -- - whether ten seconds passed, or twenty years gone by -- belongs to a part of you whose very "life" depends upon driving you back into and a painful memory of some kind.