Learn to be still and listen: the less you have to say about life, the more Life will speak to you, and start telling you things that ears can't hear.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 31, 2014. Stop complaining. Start changing. The appearance of every moment comes with an unseen set of complementary, but completely different 'buttons:' one is marked 'going down.' The other reads 'up.' Your destiny in life all depends upon which of these two buttons you select. Choose wisely!...

Part 1 Never fight with life; your struggle is not with what opposes you, but rather with what you have yet to understand about the opposing forces that live within you. Part 2 The wind that fills the sails of a ship is born of a coming storm... As is each tempest the herald of the calm waters that follow its wrath. In this knowledge is found the key to conscious detachment, the po...

Student Talks: 1/28/2022 - Key Lesson: Our true purpose in life has nothing whatsoever to do with anything that can be imagined, let alone anxiously pursued.

Student Talks: 3/29/2019 - Key Lesson: If thoughts are cheap, and negative states are a dime a dozen, then what does that tell us about the parts of us that like spending most of their time identifying with them?

Student Talks: 8/30/2024 - Key Lesson: We are so occupied trying to fill our lives with what we want that we can't see how all that we need is being given to us freely every moment of the day.

If we mistakenly give any negative reaction its "life" -- then the opposite must hold true: we can consciously withdraw that same life any time we so choose!

Student Talks: 7/29/2022 - Key Lesson: True spiritual liberation is inseparable from seeing, and agreeing to undergo whatever these revelations make evident must now change in one's character. Such Divine intervention never moves in a single direction, but rather occurs in all directions at once, like the radiations of the sun. This order of Light doesn't transform the darkness...

If we can't give the whole of our attention to someone -- or, for that matter, to any moment -- then we can't listen. If we can't listen, we can't possibly hear the whole story...

The only responses to life's challenges that any of us "ride" are those we think can carry us to safety. Leaping onto the back of the dark horse of a fearful reaction, according to our old habits, is like entering a runaway carriage being pulled along by wild thoughts and pounding feelings.

Student Talks: 4/5/2024 - Key Lesson: The reason why the search for the "Truth" of oneself is called "pathless"... is because it's not taken in steps, let alone in any known direction; rather, the "journey" to authentic self-liberation is found in our endless opportunity to enter into an ever-higher order of self-understanding that -- like the light in which it is revealed - never stops expanding. And... we are invited to travel along.

The fifth step to making yourself fearless is faith. Real faith is born in a human being when he or she has the direct experience that they live in a world that is established for them to succeed in realizing that within them dwells an Intelligence beyond fear.When a person takes the first four steps - attention, awareness, self-knowledge, and persistence - and brings them together...