Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of August 28, 2017. Fearing failure, he fails; being willing to fail, he succeeds in freeing himself from the fear of failure. Being free of the fear of failure, he stops resisting whatever seems to oppose his will. He succeeds in all the days that follow because he's learned the greatest lesson that earthly life has to offer: when his will is the same a...

Classroom Talk: 6/1/2005 - Learn to rely upon yourself in all things, and you will make this glad discovery: it is the strength you find yourself lacking that is the seed of the new strength that you need to succeed.

Classroom Talk: 4/14/2004 - No weakness of ours persists that is not fueled by the unconscious fear we have of it; so to wake up and face this fear is the first step in erasing the weakness that it protects.

Classroom Talk: 5/25/2003 - Just as the yellow-red and fire-like orange colors of a sunset fill an emblazoned sky without staining it, so does the endless spectrum of thought play across the mind that is one with its own light without leaving a mark.

Classroom Talk: 6/26/2002 - Whatever it may be that life serves up to us, regardless of its original character, it has the potential of being made Divine whenever we will agree to add to it a dash of our wish to let God prepare us!

Classroom Talk: 10/30/2024 - The fear of what may lie just ahead does not exist without the unconscious parts of us clinging - painfully - to what no longer serves the purpose for which it was originally created.

What is impatience but an unconscious agreement to inject oneself with a venomous substance that not only sets us against Life itself, but whose fast acting poison causes us to forget that, in reality, nothing is punishing us apart from our own pressing demands.

Student Talks: 10/4/2024 - Key Lesson: In this life – regardless of circumstance – there is no greater reward than our God-given right to see what is true, and then to do what is asked of us in the light of that revelation; neither is there any task that comes with so great a personal price.

Classroom Talk: 10/4/2023 - The consistency of any painful, negative reaction to some person or event doesn't prove -- as we imagine it does -- that the "guilty" party remains unchanged as "charged." Rather, what it does show -- at the very least -- is that it is we who are unchanged: an unwitting captive of being unconsciously identified with our own negative reaction.

Classroom Talk: 3/6/2022 - Coming to realize any limitation in our consciousness is not the denial of our passage into and through whatever may be the next stage of our inner development; all such revelations along the Way are, in fact, the threshold of an invisible door that -- if we will but dare to stand there -- knocking on it -- never fails to open, revealing a secret entrance into...

We must choose whether to live our lives in that endless struggle of trying to fit ourselves into life as this world gives it to us, or to work to give ourselves that Life that all else is created to fit into.

Just as a frightening shadow cannot pass away until the form does that casts its scary appearance, neither can we hope to go beyond our own dark inner states until we voluntarily transcend the level of self that gives rise to them.