Truth is always new, ceaselessly original; and to realize its innocence, to share its inexhaustible spontaneity, you too must be original.

Topics covered: Discussion of the exercise during lunch to wait 3 seconds before eating each bite of food; You can't change your experience of the moment unless there's a change in the energy moving through you; The more present you are, the richer the impressions you take in; The further a person can see, the more they understand; All of this work is to help you see that you're a victim of yo...

We live from a bottomless basket of endless wants that drive us everywhere, including crazy! Hoping to find comfort and life direction in your wants is like trying to find shade under a swarm of stinging flies -- while it may be cooler, you also have to keep running. Your pleasure is your pain. Real pleasure is not the opposite of pain, it is the absence of it. Think about it. What you re...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of December 2, 2013. Part 1: Psychological resistance is just a strong, painful sensation. (It is) a blind force of unconscious rejection, the life-blood of a negative nature that always -- and only -- appears whenever life fails to affirm one of its dark demands. Part 2: Trying to change any unwanted moment in your life -- without first changing that le...

The true measure of our love for the Light of the Divine isn't found in how much it fills us, but rather in our willingness to empty ourselves (of our self) for the sake of living its Presence.

Standing at the window -- always looking outside of yourself -- it's easy to forget that you're also standing inside the house given to you by your Father. There is no shelter outside; all distant castles are dreams. There is no place to rest outside of your Self. Outside yourself there is no hearth whose fire keeps you warm; you'll find no light that never falters. Standing at the win...

By wanting are all things not wanted... thus created; much as joy and sorrow, bound as one... are related.

Question: My partner and I have had so many painful experiences along the spiritual path, encountering people and paths promising at first and then proving to be so empty! In all honesty, one hardly has the heart to keep going...

Part 1 Mindfulness is mandatory for anyone wishing to end the misery born of trying -- in vain -- to fill an empty heart with a string of meaningless experiences. Part 2 We have freedom of choice, but not from the consequences of those choices.

When, at times, the spiritual aspirant feels as though there's no reason to go on...because he can no longer believe in an imagined good somewhere ahead of him, he comes to what seems a complete dead end. And yet, it is exactly in this place that he must step through himself, and persist in the work of doing what is right and true simply for the sake of a Goodness yet unknown, barely realized.

There are times, seemingly dark, when I can see my sorrow to come. Sorrow that not only didn't I tell someone of my love for him or her, but sorrow also that I couldn't speak the truth of my heart -- or that I just wouldn't... For fear of being misunderstood. Sorrow that I didn't take a much firmer interior stand against what I could see defiled my soul, and sorrow that when I did attempt to...

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...