Topics covered: Finding a true school; Awareness is faster than instinct; A lot of what people take for self-observation is actually identification; Something is new only if it is not already known to you; There's no end to experiences but there will come an end to the experiencer; You will not know what's happening to you when the Spirit comes to you; Your consciousness holds within it all th...

Topics covered: Your best spiritual work comes from seeing a truth from different angles; Every event is specific to the development of your soul; Your true nature doesn't use thoughts to communicate with you; A crisis does not create an unwanted condition, it reveals what doesn't want to change; Within you lives another order of being that doesn't have to think its way out of a situation; Our...

Wouldn't it be a real relief to get outside the limitations of negative reactions? But how do we get there? How can we be certain we're headed in the right direction?" Here is a great secret known only by those who have made the journey before us: Walk away from the mental "how" into the spiritual Now. And here is one of the keys to this special instruction: The journey outside of yourself doesn't...

Whenever we are taken over by a negative state -- and remain identified with our resistance to it -- we may not know it, but in these moments... we are as good as “dead.” Yes, it feels like we’re alive, but this powerful sense of self is really just the presence of our (own) painful resistance to what that moment came to reveal to us about our present level of self.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of December 11, 2017. It's impossible to arrive at wholeness by seeking it one "peace" at a time.

Learning what it means to step back from our reactions to life is the same as learning to walk past those parts of us that want us to believe our only choices in that moment are those presented to us from the content of these reactions.

The past -- whatever its pain -- only exists in the present moment as a place of suffering due to an unconscious level of self that -- on its own -- first recalls that time and place of sorrow, and then resists the torment of its own conditioned memory.

It's NEVER life's lessons themselves that are painful: the real problem, which is the same as the reason why we groan in these moments -- instead of grow from them -- is that there's something in our present level of consciousness that does NOT want that lesson!

Letting go is an act of agreement with life; it is an accord on our part with what the present moment is telling us about ourselves as it unfolds before us -- and within us -- asking us what it does. And what is it that life asks of us moment to moment? It's simple, really. Life is always asking... Will you be a witness to my story? Will you let go of your moment in the sun of passing circum...

Learning what it means to take a deliberate step back from our reactions to life is the same as learning to walk past those parts of us that want us to believe our only choices in that moment are those presented to us from the content of these reactions.

The key to the kingdom of heaven is never farther away from us than what each present moment reveals to us; for in truth “purity of heart” is inseparable from our willingness to see that things are the way they are because of the way we are.

The effort to remain inwardly awake, the work to be grounded in the present moment, is not to put away some pain that may be troubling you. The act of being "in Presence" - the attention required to do so -- is to make possible the following revelation, including its self-liberating realization: the negative experience of any given moment is, in fact, *inseparable from the nature of the seer...