Our attention needs to be turned around so that rather than always being mechanically drawn to consider whatever it meets in each passing moment, it is directed upon what it is (within us) that meets the same. Otherwise our attention belongs to every thing, which leaves us with nothing of our own.

Topics Covered: Discussion about the lunch exercise; All untethered boats eventually sink; Every light eventually goes out; Without attention there is no connection; God is not in touch with humanity, he's in touch with a few individuals who are in touch with humanity; You are the hope of the world; Desire is not love; We're not meant to spend our lives serving ourselves; The man or woman at p...

We are not bound by any unwanted condition, but rather by our failure to realize that we’ve become unwitting prisoners of our own misplaced attention...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of November 7, 2016. The effort to remain inwardly awake, the work to be grounded in the present moment, is not to put away some pain that may be troubling you. The act of being "in Presence" - the attention required to do so -- is to make possible the following revelation, including its self-liberating realization: the negative experience of any given m...

Since what others may do to us is not in our power to change, we need only concern ourselves with what we do to ourselves, for this is in our power.

If you want to understand why you feel the troubles that you do, just "tune-in" to the parts of yourself that you're listening to. All the "sounds" of life are revelatory, but none are perfunctory, so if we keep hearing discordant thoughts and feelings within us -- whose vibrations disturb us -- it is not because Life sings this song. Our unrest continues only because of an unseen interior...

Your experience of your life is determined by your attention. We want to consistently see without selfing.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of April 23, 2018. If attending to, and then surrendering oneself to the will of the Divine fulfills the highest possible purpose of one's real life -- and one works inwardly, as faithfully as one can to live this understanding -- then slowly, but surely appears a new kind of freedom...

Our attention connects us to life; it establishes our relationships with all that unfolds around and within us.

Topics covered: Your usual sense of I is mostly attached to the motor system; Real prayer requires a concerted effort with all parts of yourself; There are different levels of attention utilized by different levels of yourself; Silence is perfect safety because nothing can enter into it unannounced; The first rebirth comes from leaving the world of thought; It's impossible to see something new...

Slowly our wish and inner work to sustain our attention grows into the will to be able to do so.

So-called “self-love” is the endless hunger of an unconscious nature for the attention of others...