In those times when we're busy dreaming up the next plan, the next love, the next thrill, aren't we really looking for a way to renew ourselves? Most of us experience "renewal" when some idea or a hope that we have gets fulfilled, filling us in turn with a sense of excitement; and then, in that feeling of being full of ourselves, comes a certain kind of pleasure that we take as being the same...

The following are examples of ways in which one might use the "Be Thou" prayer following one's work with any of the exercises in double attention. Each of the following eight simple prayers is to be felt by the whole of you, one by one, as you address their corresponding parts in the order shown here. As you become aware of...

When you see the poverty of your present fallen nature, the wish to have your attention on the divine and ask it to be with you naturally follows. The more aware you are of a pain that you can't push away, the more you are naturally in prayer.

Thank you, Father, for opening my eyes to see... I am never more blind than when all I see is who or what is to blame for my pain...

Exercise: Set an intention to be engaged in ceaseless prayer for three hours -- one mantra that reminds you that the treasure of yourself is about to be stolen if you stop remembering yourself.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 14, 2013. Part 1: Unconscious suffering is a creation of incomplete perception; it is the inevitable painful outcome of having mistaken the partial for the whole. Part 2: Employing self-remembrance, strive to practice Presence; (this) one action is the path of spiritual purification, even as it serves to reveal all of God's Kingdoms presently...

Student Talks: 05/16/2025 - The only thing good about any negative reaction is the revelation of how useless is that (level of) suffering to change anything about our present nature, let alone the condition it convinces us to blame for its pain.

The reasons we give ourselves for our pain are not the cause of it.

Guy explains how we can begin developing true fearlessness by refusing to follow the commands of the internal pressure that jumps in and immediately tells us what we must now say or do, given the moment of uncertainty that stands before us.

Conscious prayer is the (act of) seeking relationship with one's own kind; it is...a bridge to reconciliation, to a reunification with one's own latent levels of higher consciousness; it is the means by which one enters into a conscious state of similarity with higher, more celestial levels of being, to eventually transcend the limits of similarity and enter into pure atonement.

Student Talks: 11/17/2023 - Key Lesson: Anytime we struggle in the dark of ourselves -- trying to change our nature -- our efforts are misdirected; our real work is to learn to see by the light that dwells in that darkness, and to know the truth of ourselves, as (it is) revealed.

Heavenly Father, blessed Christ, Divine Mother, Holy Spirit: I come before thee bringing together my heart, mind, and soul in praise of thee, and to pray to thee: Adonai Eloheinu Adonai echad: the Lord is our God; the Lord is One. Please help those of us who want to find their way back home to thee. Guide us; protect us from the evil one; lend us thy strength in our battles with the darkness.