Regardless of how one may feel in any given moment, real life can present no task before us for which we are "inadequate." Yes, we may be unprepared at its outset just as each year a bare tree can't know, in advance, the weight of a heavy winter snowfall until its branches bend and maybe even break beneath it; but no tree is its limbs, and neither are we made less for what we can't do or ca...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 15, 2018. Refusing to blame others for our pain is the same as asking for an awareness of a dark and unconscious nature that believes the best way to make things right...is to do wrong; that the surest way to get over our suffering is to blame someone for it, as if our healing depends on making others hurt.

We are created and each of us is intended to discover the truth of ourselves within ourselves. Our lives -- and all of our relationships as revealed in the present moment -- are the ground we must plow. These soils are seeded with our intention to be kind and true to one another, to give up our selfish ways, and to willingly embrace whatever life lessons we need to further our inner developmen...

A great poem, a timeless stanza of thought, a true writing that stirs and swells the heart; what are these precious forms save a moment of Love plucked from Time to stand as testimony to a perfection briefly remembered as the living foundation of all things. The poet is presented the proposal, the moment where the Great Pain beckons him to marriage. He is awakened from a slumber to answer th...

Don't try to be free -- for this sets you against any movement of life that doesn't line up with your ideas about the nature of freedom. Better than trying to be free, learn instead to freely explore all of your moments. For instance, be free to wonder about your worries instead of feverishly working to resolve them according to your present ideas about a worry-free life. Then perhaps y...

Dreaming of some brighter day to come -- when, for happier circumstances, you will be freer -- is like believing that the solution to living in a city with unending traffic is to have a better car to sit in as you go nowhere.

Part 1 The purpose behind working to be present is not to put away what's troubling you; the act of being in Presence is to invite the revelation that the unwanted moment you're seeing (in that same instant) is inseparable from the nature of the seer. Part 2 The sleeping mind is a house of mirrors, and whoever enters into it, first enthralled -- and then blinded by what he sees th...

Part I: When he "thinks" about his life, and all of his plans, what else does he do in such moments but read the content of his own thoughts that are, themselves, captives of secret self-reflections... but when he is awake to himself, present within his own native intuition, his unfettered mind roams the universe and awaits her perfect guidance. Part II: At every step of the way one's natura...

Our one true responsibility in life is to be awake and receptive to the eternally unfolding present moment, even as we give our full attention to what is revealed within us for its ceaseless passage through us.

Starting over is not the continuity of anything. It is -- at its inception -- an untamed impulse: a blast of will that undoes whatever it touches even as it assumes its next fleeting expression.

Topics covered: A chief feature of a divided mind is to judge; Most of what bothers you about other people is what they've stirred in you; When you really change you change in both directions of time; Your awareness of your long body is what changes your past; We have no humility in the face of our negative states; Observation creates humility; Something in me wants to be safe and right; A tru...

Can you count the number of times you have been present in a moment of your life and realized how much you wished you weren't you? That you hadn't done what you just did, and wished you would never do it again... loathing yourself for your weakness, despising yourself for your ambition that compromises you with every step you take, feeling frightened over some possession you've managed to acquire in the hope of some freedom it promised...