Classroom Talk: 10/9/2002 - Part 1: We are subjected to the unconscious pain of any negative state that we refuse to make the subject of our own conscious self-study. Part 2: Peace can never be obtained by conquering fear but only in seeing that there is nothing one can possess that will gently hold the mind still or fill the heart with grace.

We will make detailed preparations for a single day off, lay out careful plans for a special date, or spend untold moments worrying over what we should wear; but few of us rarely take the time to prepare our interior life to receive the higher impressions that awaken our soul to its substance and meaning.

Every truth ever discovered -- each new light that will ever burn bright -- already exists in (our) consciousness. All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice -- the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows -- awaits us within ourselves. Hidden in this Gift of gifts, in its timeless truth is both the seed of our perfection, as well as its promis...

Student Talks: 2/16/2024 - Key Lesson: 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 we can continue to struggle with unwanted moments in the false belief that the pain of our resistance (to them) proves we know how life is supposed to unfold.

Topics covered: Every unwanted moment is the fear of death; God's life is a great undiscovered ocean that is already within you. The ocean doesn't exist outside of you and you have always been a part of it, but as yet you do not know how to participate. Seeing that you do not know is the beginning of participating; The fear of "un" is fear of the unknown, the undiscovered, the unwanted. Until you get over the fear of "un" you'll never know...

Remastered Classic Talk: 07/20/16 - Here is a great unseen Law: never ask someone to do for you what you haven't first struggled with, mightily, to do for yourself... For in adherence to this Law not only will you be open and willing to admit your present set of limitations, but you will also be forever grateful to whoever steps forward to help you see how to transcend them.

 

Topics covered:  Spiritual wisdom is in discovering the mastery of God. Within us lives this mastery; Every time someone does not agree with you, you experience the fear of death. Anxiety is the avoidance of the fear of death. Anger hides the fear of death; Behind every form of psychological resistance is the fear of death.

Identification causes stupefication. Stupefication causes petrification. Petrification is spiritual death.

We must strive to be ever mindful of the company we keep, for by these same sources is our Soul nourished and sustained and subsequently taught to evolve or degenerate, brought into the Light or the darkness, and at last delivered unto Life or death.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of April 28, 2014. Spiritually speaking, all relationships serve one purpose: self-knowledge. Self-knowledge serves one purpose: awakening to the truth of one's self. Awakening to the truth of oneself serves one purpose: dying to oneself. Dying to oneself serves one purpose: rebirth. And rebirth is... the purpose and fulfillment of all relationships.

By love we overcome death, for death is an act of love... not the end of it.

There are two kinds of death: involuntary and voluntary. The former, the first death, serves this world...