Topics covered: Every action you take is the result of whatever will is present in you at that moment; Using uncomfortable moments to perfect your relationship with the divine; Do conscious invisible beings exist and do they have an affect on us; Taking a conscious risk; What causes the bittersweet feeling when we start working to give up the false self; Comparing the urgency of spiritual work...

Topics covered: Should I quit my job before having another one lined up; The more I'm aware of my suffering, the more I suffer; How can a spiritual aspirant stand against aggression without reciprocating; How can God be both merciful and punishing; Questions about the Active Double Attention exercises; Why does success come more easily to my less responsible partner; I don't know whether to st...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of November 10, 2014. Our love for what is Right, Bright, and True is constantly being tested... Not only by that timeless spiritual Light that calls us to take its side, but also by the nature of that darkness created in its absence... through which we must walk in order to realize our intention to be whole, fearless, and free.

Topics covered: Real spiritual gold is to be able to rest from ourselves; Thoughts and feelings weigh you down and exhaust you; The only problem we have is that we have forgotten the truth of ourselves; What it means to take action from higher understanding; The nature of negative states is to consume; How to be free of fear; What the real law of attraction is about.

Why isn't there actually a "secret" or technique for fearless living?...

I have been seeing an energy healer of late and wondered: what are your thoughts on this type of 'spiritual' practice? Good, bad, or? During a recent session my facilitator told me that of my 'energy' is 'more open' than in the past. I think this is a good thing but...I am recently having dreams and odd sensations of my mother who died almost 20 years ago. I can't help but think that my recent...

Topics covered: It is wise to seek immortality because time defeats all other ambitions; The greatest prize hidden within our inner life is victory over death. Uncovering the treasure is a matter not of intellectual knowledge only, but of awareness, relationship, participation and understanding; The desert in spiritual stories represents the endless useless struggle to escape from conflict, not seeing that the attempt to escape is the perpetuation of the conflict.

Topics Covered: We cannot DO anything to create freedom. What we CAN do is understand that which takes freedom from us. Our reaction is usually one of doing instead of seeing; There is no captivity outside of ignorance of the activity of our own consciousness; There is no such thing as "I can't" when it comes to your spiritual life. What you are really hearing is the voice of an...

Topics Covered: Sanity is a state of mind and of being that is at peace; The great task for all spiritual aspirants is to be completely what you are as you are being completed; The whole of life cannot be separated from that which is giving life; The orignal meaning of the idea of "sin" was connected to "missing the mark"; Thinking about tomorrow's plans to find peace and fulfillment is...

Topics Covered:The awakening of conscience is the beginning of the return journey to our original spiritual home; "If I am not for myself, then who will be? If I am just for myself, then what am I? If not now, then when?" -- Hillel the Elder; We presently live from a divided level of consciousness that believes it is impossible to be for ourselves AND for others at the same time...

Topics Covered: The physical body is not interested in the experience, it's interested in the sensation; Your life is meant to be a kind of spiritual Disneyland; The fulfillment of any wish depends on the nature that makes it; Find a way to vary your routines; Gratitude is inherent in one's awareness of their own existence; The mind has an incessant need to be touched; Prayer is the beginning...

Topics covered: Review of the lunch exercise to come back to double attention while sensing your emotional state before taking a bite of food; One of the main reasons for a spiritual exercise is to see that you're asleep; Setting an intention is a deliberate invitation for second force; Most of what we call emotion is just the byproduct of whatever thoughts are passing through us; We want to b...