Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 9, 2017. Until we can see that we care more for what "will be" -- even "what was" -- than we do for being in relationship with "what is" -- our heart and mind are the possessions of passing time, which means that so is the false sense of self that appears out of it... only to disappear back into it time and time again.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of August 1, 2016. Hoping that if you can just keep moving -- rush from one place to another -- so that when you arrive "there" your pain and anxiety will finally be left behind you -- is like believing it's possible to kill a swarm of stinging thoughts by spraying yourself with insecticide!...

Topics covered: Everything that we see is through its reflection in our consciousness, including physical objects; Beauty is in our consciousness, not just in the outside condition that it sees, but it needs the condition to reveal that the observer is the observed; If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then so is fear, doubt and anxiety; Our present consciousness is mirrored in the...

Topics Covered: If the Kingdom of Heaven is within, then why can't we see it and why can't we enter into it? The Kingdom of Heaven is another level of consciousness that can't be seen with physical eyes, and there is no awareness of the Kingdom of Heaven when we're filled with resentment, ambition and anxiety;There must come a point in our spiritual work...

Topics covered: Discussion of the live-streamed series on Authentic Change; Having an intention isn't enough to make authentic change; Trying to escape what you're feeling versus really feeling what you are experiencing; A ""new you"" doesn't happen later, it's now or not at all; Being present to the movement of fear, anger, and anxiety within us; Learning to see that you are acting from an ""old...

Topics explored in this dialogue: There is no difference in the way men and women suffer, just differences in what we suffer over; We have false ideas about what our life is about and for, which results in a lot of fighting with life that produces constant pain; The root cause of fear, anxiety, doubt has to do with valuing ourselves according to how others see us...

Freedom from regret, hate, anxiety, and rage -- and making useless excuses for being compromised by these negative states -- begins as we stand in the light of this rescuing realization: unwanted moments, whatever their nature, do not cause the pain we find in them; rather, they serve to reveal a level of our consciousness already in pain, and looking for something to blame for it.

My wife died three years ago, I live alone, and I and was recently diagnosed with cancer. I think I have come to terms with the prognosis, but for some reason my anxiety and depression get worse every day. I wake each morning with utter dread of the day ahead -- this horrible feeling of having no escape from the awful fear and despair. Sometimes I feel so close to madness; it's as if the false...

Topics covered: Images of ourselves exist instead of us, and they exist only in our mind; Actions that we take against ourselves are the response to unseen anxiety we felt the moment before; To create or to complete, that is the question; Aside from practical thought, the very nature of planning for a moment to come is the seed of fear; Our minds are seeded with constant dissatisfaction...

Topics covered: The only thing we know to do in unwanted moments is to reject them, and then listen for guidance from the part of us that responds in that way; In a disturbing moment, the resistance that comes up -- the onset of it -- is not yours; How many times are you going to struggle with fear, anxiety, depression, anger, and every other negative state?

Topics Covered: We are meant to use everything that happens to us to deepen our relationship with peace; I get disturbed whenever what 'I' know is not confirmed by the prevailing condition; Anxiety is a state that tries to find rest by racing through all of the possible paths to take in order to get through the moment; As above, so below. As within, so without; Our experience of any...

Topics covered: When we're in pain, our mind acts as the physician; To start freeing ourselves from fear, anxiety, and feelings of inadequacy, we need new knowledge; Our reaction to an event is a signal to become aware; We cannot know the meaning of an event using thought to interpret it; Anything in us that justifies a psychological pain is part of the pattern; Don't serve psychological pain,...