Topics Covered: Resistance is the instantaneous appearance of an old body of experience; Faith born of seeing; The more you don't want something, the more you don't want it; Everything lines up for consciousness; Duality exists at the level of the opposites; Every human being is given a divine role; Using physical pain to maintain higher awareness; Working to be present before the disparity ap...

Topics covered: All questions, by their very nature, separate you from what you're asking about; All forms of disturbance are evidence of a disparity; The disturbance is a tension between worlds and levels of being; Within me lives a nature that is a living disparity seeking reconciliation; Faith is born out of understanding what is cosmologically whole; Life isn't poking you, life is pointing...

There is a big difference between making a mistake, and thinking of oneself as being a mistake...

Ask anyone who has been through it: the road to recovery is a hard one. Not for the faint of heart! And so it's true when it comes to the real Work of realizing and recovering the most precious gift of all: the inner Light that grants us the right to live without dark mental and emotional states.

There is no greater waste of one's time than worrying over what someone else may or may not feel about you.

I have a problem that I just can't seem to shake: I can't seem to be faithful. I know it's wrong, but I just don't learn my lesson no matter how many times others, including myself, have been hurt. I'm so full of regret. I'm lost, disenfranchised, and have only hurt others and drawn them away from the light as well. I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing on this earth but know for certain...

The wish itself -- to be a higher person -- comes to you from a higher place and is received in its inner equivalent within you. This means there's already an existing connection between the you that you want to be and the you that you presently are; between the new destiny you would have, and the fortunes you've known. All you have to do is stay on the royal road that has brought you up to th...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of July 11, 2016. Fear -- or any negative state that persists as a power to punish us -- is the inevitable result of believing that we are something that we are not. Once we see the definitive link between the fear, worry, or anger we feel, and the particular false sense of self that doesn't exist without these punishing states, our choice becomes clear:...

Guy explains during a recent Online Study Group meeting why this work is predicated upon creating, by our efforts, the inescapable presence of second force. The more we are earnest in our work, the more willing we are to meet what we have to because we've seen there is no other way.

Student Talks: 7/1/2022 - Key Lesson: Part 1: The secret entrance into the unknowable Divine can never be found in this or that thought, but only within a faith-based action that must be trial-tested before it can be counted on as unquestionably True. Part 2: The instant that we stir any element of time -- of thought -- into our experience of the present moment we have sown...

Topics covered: New impressions are preparation for the establishment of a new understanding in you; Faith is meaningless unless it brings you to a point of sacrifice; Everything we see is defined by a reaction; I am not different from what I observe; Hell is the heaven of the unconscious nature; Life is the marriage between impression and what is impressed upon; Exchanging a time life for an...

Many times, darkness is the medium, sorrow the seed, and the subsequent humility conceived in these trials is the divine garden in which our soul flowers.