Most of us believe to have the "power of choice" means it is our right to decide what we want to pursue and possess in this world – these choices being one and the same as the path to what we imagine will fulfill us now, or in a time to come. But what difference do these choices make – regardless of what we may pull from the river of passing time when – by Law – everything tha...

We go through life looking for approval from others. This unending search for approval runs deep inside of us as we unknowingly nurture a relationship with the idea that if we could just be accepted, then little by little we would come to know who we are. We actually buy into the notion that if we could get enough people to approve of us, then this ache in our soul that is always trying to fig...

Stains grow and spread by the law of accretion through attraction, meaning that similar substances are drawn to each other, and bond together as one. To see this law at work -- even in our own coffee cup -- is to see all negative thoughts and feelings for what they are: a source of foulness that, if left to breed in the darkness of an unattended mind, becomes a stain that first soils, and then...

Remastered Classic Talk: 07/20/16 - Here is a great unseen Law: never ask someone to do for you what you haven't first struggled with, mightily, to do for yourself... For in adherence to this Law not only will you be open and willing to admit your present set of limitations, but you will also be forever grateful to whoever steps forward to help you see how to transcend them.

 

Topics covered: Each level of existence is subject to the laws that create it; What you think you are is not who and what you truly are; Just as opposites attract, similarities repulse one another; The laws of this world govern the creation of opposites; When you truly learn the lesson, you become what you learn; All that is in your power to do is to awaken the need to no longer be under the l...

I have a mother-in-law who embodies every known cliche about mothers-in-law. I used to call her regularly out of a sense of duty, but she was often rude and negative, so a while ago I stopped calling her. I don't have the spiritual strength to handle this person with equanimity. As an aspirant, is it right to avoid contact? What is the kindest thing to do here -- call and satisfy her demands,...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 14, 2013. Part 1: Unconscious suffering is a creation of incomplete perception; it is the inevitable painful outcome of having mistaken the partial for the whole. Part 2: Employing self-remembrance, strive to practice Presence; (this) one action is the path of spiritual purification, even as it serves to reveal all of God's Kingdoms presently...

Topics covered: All forms of interior dialog are the justification of a deflection in that moment; You don't deflect what you are, the deflection IS what you are; A human being is the embodiment of the laws which brought him into existence; Discussion of the law of seven; No straight lines exist in nature; Resistance is a circle; You must meet the deflection point and not be turned.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of May 12, 2014. No reaction to a reaction can release you from the prison of patterns that enclose and sustain the life of the reactive self, anymore than yanking on the tail of a lion has the power to make it release you from its mouth.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of September 9, 2013. Here is the great prerequisite to realizing the Higher Life and Love for which you long: You must uncover why you consistently allow one thing -- i.e., one unwanted event, one disparaging comment, any old regret or familiar fear to become your all... instead of meeting these passing moments with the understanding that the All is mea...

Here is a great unseen Law: never ask someone to do for you what you haven't first struggled with, mightily, to do for yourself... For in adherence to this Law not only will you be open and willing to admit your present set of limitations, but you will also be forever grateful to whoever steps forward to help you see how to transcend them.

Topic: The Consequence of Living Outside the Law (Classroom Talk 3/6/24)