Classroom Talk: 3/14/2021 - Part 1: We live within... and under an unseen Law: whatever we resist - deny or reject - about our past is destined to become a part of our future. Part 2: Weakness always excuses weakness... because it fears itself.

Here's the real reason a 'coward dies a thousand deaths.' By law, any fear we refuse to face always returns... until we finally learn its essential lesson: resistance ensures repetition, so that whatever we try to go around will come back around again.

Classroom Talk: 11/14/2021 - It is an eternal law: everything is always being changed, ceaselessly transformed into something else; but within us dwells the light of a Divine intelligence that is the unchanging center of all there is, or that ever will be.

In days long past, seekers of Truth spoke of a mysterious "lost chord." Perhaps you are familiar with this timeless spiritual idea? Roughly speaking, the search for this lost chord centered on an idea not too dissimilar from the one that drove seekers to try to find the legendary philosopher's stone. If someone could discover, group, and then intone certain musical notes together -- at the rig...

Here's the real reason a "coward dies a thousand deaths." By law, any fear we refuse to face always returns...until we finally learn its essential lesson: resistance ensures repetition, so that whatever we try to go around will come back around again.

We can never hope to be free as long as any part of us struggles with, or suffers over what others are doing, have done, or won't do with their lives. Besides, if we could remain aware of the often-compromised state of our own character, that is, how we still do those things to others that we don't want to do, this awakened conscience would stir in us a new need. Rather than worrying about whe...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 23, 2015. There is only one real way to share the life of the Immortal Self that lives within us, and within whom we live: we must shoulder our share of creation by consciously suffering the throes of its ceaseless birth and death. And how is this done? By agreeing to embrace its seemingly opposing parts until they reveal the secret holiness fro...

Student Talks: 11/19/2021 - Key Lesson: It is an eternal law: everything is always being changed, ceaselessly transformed into something else; but within us dwells the light of a Divine intelligence that is the unchanging center of all there is, or that ever will be.

Have you ever looked down at a sidewalk or parking lot and marveled at a single blade of grass that had somehow found the will and the way to break through the pavement out into the fresh air and sunlight? When we think of a titanic struggle, we don't usually think of a little seed of grass buried in the darkness and fighting to get out in the light. And yet, even though we may not see it as w...

Guy Finley explains that as your awareness of the natural laws that currently govern your actions increases, so does your ability to make choices based on higher knowledge, instead of being blindly guided by ignorance. Spiritually speaking, this is the beginning of the development of true free will.

Student Talks: 3/19/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: We live within... and under an unseen Law: whatever we resist -- deny or reject -- about our past is destined to become a part of our future. Part 2: Weakness always excuses weakness... because it fears itself.

Since real life is genesis itself -- the ceaseless rebirth of 'what has been' giving way to 'what is and will be' -- then the only thing a person can be 'in charge' of is the illusion that something remains constant besides change.