Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of May 15, 2017. Life is change; it is creation revealing itself. We can either realize our existence within its movement as a designated part of its Divine design, or can continue to struggle with unwanted moments in the false belief that our resistance to any unexpected turn in life proves we already know the right way back home.

How is it possible to learn a lesson again and again (the spiritual idea of experiencing a "box within a box"), where each time you see something new?...

Topics covered:  We give more attention and care to the practical affairs of life than we give to our inner life. Nothing is more serious or more important than attending to your interior life; The punchline of the story about the twins who would inherit their Father's Kingdom was: "Freedom without service is an illusion. The great, sacred law is that whenever you are asked to place the needs of the kingdom above your own, you must do so regardless of the personal cost."

Part 1 Painful negative assumptions that pop up in us about ourselves, that darken our aspirations for a higher, happier life, are much like thorns on the stem of a fragrant rose: the only power they have to hurt us is when we mistakenly close our hand around them. Part 2 To measure flour for a pie crust causes no pain, but measure your baking skills against those of your friends --...

Topics covered: My wife manages me by punishing our children; Does the term 'law' from recent talks refer to personal beliefs; How do I know if I'm actually in the presence of God or just dreaming; Is it possible to not have a sense of self; How do we distinguish what is not aligned with Higher principle; How do I discern if what I hear from a spiritual teacher is true; How long does it take t...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of June 19, 2017. There are two good things about a constant, strong wind in one's face: first, how resilient one's legs become, the stamina that's developed by walking directly into a gale force. The other good thing is this: when the winds change direction which, by law, they always do -- so that now the wind is at one's back -- one sprints forward wit...

Are the laws in the Bible really God's, or are they man's interpretations? It seems that man destroys whatever he gets his hands on, so why should the Bible be any exception? When Jesus told his disciples that they must lose themselves to find themselves, was this the process of finding true self? Is the Bible a good resource for living truth? Each generation thinks that the Book of Revelation...

Everything is temporary. Resistance to any unwanted moment fixes, at once, an unwelcome sense of self that then feels stuck in the negativity it struggles to escape...

Though our eyes are yet to be able to see it, every “moment” is a ceaseless processing of life's higher possibilities... wherein, seen as a whole, it is indisputable evidence of the continuing revelation of God’s perfection...

I am working hard to stay awake and aware, but continue to experience persistent symptoms related to longstanding problems. This makes it difficult to tell whether or not I'm making any progress in my work. How can I know that I'm actually getting better? (From student correspondence)...

Part I: Treat a truly just man unfairly and he will turn this injustice into a fair profit for himself because he knows that to return such unkindness is to borrow against himself, and that by not going into this kind of debt he enjoins Reality to pay him his rightful due ten times over. Treat an unjust man with fairness and he will soon see your kindness as a personal debt and then, demanding...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of November 14, 2016. The basis of real life -- of existence itself -- is exchange; whatever appears or disappears is the momentary expression of this Law. This is why the only thing that we can keep -- that is authentically our own -- is the Divine part of us that not only sees and understands this truth, but that stands in a stillness relative to it, a...