When we are hurt badly, the higher lesson hidden in this trial is to recognize the time has come to let go of who and what we have been up until the moment of loss.

Topics Covered: Spiritual life is a ceaseless series of departures; The antidote is in the venom; In my weakness is Thy strength made perfect; The nature that wants to fit in is in a prison; Eliminate the mechanical man or woman, and you eliminate what is maniacal; "Give me liberty or give me death" is a fact of spiritual life; The emptiness we fear doesn't exist without...

The vast majority of our mental, emotional, and physical patterns -- those repetitive, too familiar pathways along which we walk, are -- in fact -- the creations of an unconscious nature...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 26, 2015. Real Life is neither what we call (this) life -- nor (fear about) death; it is the simultaneous ground of both states and -- as such -- can be realized only in the Timeless Now... and only by that part of us that is already one with its Timeless Presence within which dwells all possibilities at once.

When it comes to experiencing an overall sense of peace, happiness, and abiding contentment, we are not created to be self-filling beings.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of August 29, 2016. Whoever doesn't know the truth of himself, suffers uselessly for the sake of ignorance. Whoever works to know the truth of Self, agrees to suffer ignorance for the sake of Wisdom. Becoming wise, he 'slays' the lower self, as well as its suffering. And in having transcended the useless suffering born of self-ignorance -- and the death...

Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.

Topics covered: Every time we have a rude awakening, the realization is quickly covered up with a new dream; There is something in you that lives to make sure that you forget what you need to remember; The problem with our model by which we will achieve endless happiness, is that the model does not stand the test of time; Until you experience for yourself the fact that nothing dies, you will always be afraid of death.

Topics covered: I had a stressful experience at the hospital recently; What is the meaning of 'You cannot serve two masters for you will love one and despise the other'; Why do I feel pressure to act a certain way; I'm attached to my pain; What is your view on destiny; How do you 'will' physical pain; Learning that what I feel is not True I; Life begins and ends in mystery, and death makes no...

Part 1: We are told that life is everlasting -- but see that nothing lasts! We are taught there is no death, and yet we see it everywhere around us! We dwell in the middle of an immense contradiction wherein one part of us feels the possibility of a life eternal, but that sees, and fears -- in the same moment -- only the inevitability of the opposite. Part 2: The Great and Timeless Teaching --...

The spiritual search for the "old nature" set against you... isn't a "snipe hunt." The source of human misery is not a myth; so that if you've yet to see the beast of self-centeredness, if you don't recognize this creature for what it is -- and where -- it lurks within you... then at least learn to look for its tracks. That way, you might one day trace them back to its dark lair, where lie a...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of July 31, 2017. Part 1: It's said that 2 things are certain in life: death and taxes; while this old saw may be true, it shines no light whatsoever on the deeper truth that hides within it, as follows: in this world of passing time -- whatever it makes, or that is made out of it -- will be undone.