Lately, I have noticed a growing sense of desolation...as if I am wandering through an endless, dry desert. My days seem utterly empty of anything important. Indeed, the whole world looks this way to me. Sometimes it feels as if I have come to some plateau where all is meaningless, and above it there is nothing more. Sometimes even the mountains look...unbeautiful. What's happening to me? (...

Part 1 Hoping for love "to come" is like standing in a field of wildflowers and feeling pain because you can't find any roses there. Part 2 Real love is life unfolding. Like gentle sunlight dancing through the leaves on trees, timeless love can only be seen and known by what it moves through and upon.

Student Talks: 7/16/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Whatever we seek in this world to confirm our sense of self, the same serves to corrupt us. Should you doubt this, just become aware of your compulsive need to constantly be assured that whatever "kingdom" you've created for yourself... is still there. Part 2: Blessed are those who love, for they shall be loved; but for those who love not -- but only imagine they do -- even what little they have shall be taken... and they shall neither know love, nor be loved.

Student Talks: 1/5/2024 - Key Lesson: Just as the eyes that see the sun cannot understand its light by which they behold the shape and beauty of all things, neither can the heart understand the love that calls it to know and embrace all things. Eye and heart are creatures in time, but Light and Love are not. Even so, they meet; in their union is the mystery, miracle, and fulfillment of our yet realized Divine possibility.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 18, 2013. Nothing in this life is created to 'have and to hold,' but rather always to be changed, transformed by the powers that hold it, and that act upon it... in order to bring about and reveal the infinite possibilities of its continuing perfection.

Classroom Talk: 6/5/2002 - Within us we may incubate, A love or hate, And accordingly we realize, Our chosen fate.

"Do you know why you want freedom? To know why you want freedom, you must know what you want freedom from. And most of us do not know that idea of 'freedom from' -- other than when we're in a bad relationship. What you want is freedom from pain. You want freedom from fear. Freedom from self-doubt. Freedom from feeling inadequate. Freedom from being alone...."

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 2, 2015. Conscious Love is the Divine interior act of intentionally suffering the pain and sorrow of those we meet along the way; it must include our willingness to consciously sacrifice any part of us that wants to avoid, or otherwise look away from this suffering... simply because it makes us momentarily aware of our own.

Vernon Howard was a bit harsh in his assessments of people. He believed you shouldn't help others. I think we all need help because many of us are blind. Would you help anyone that came to you, even "undeserving" people? Aren't we all undeserving? Vernon spoke of "super-sickies." Are there such people?...

One of your "key lessons" says: "Don't be the least concerned if you can't seem to find the time -- or the energy -- to get going because of life's seemingly endless "duties" to family or friends. Drop these punishing (and false) ideas." Do you suggest ignoring responsibility and family... or the way one thinks about such responsibilities? (From student correspondence)...

What if everything is growing all at once? Even the whole of this world, and all the stars it wears as a crown? So that not only are the trees, the leaves, the flowers and their bees growing individually, but they are growing together as one...

The greatest, and ultimately the most important quality any of us possess is our love for what is True; and part of that truth includes being able to see that we did not seed this rarest of loves into our own heart. But, as long as we are willing to put this love within us -- still in its seedling form -- before all other desires, the same Truth that planted its Love in us will see its fruitio...