Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of September 4, 2017. It's not some task before me that I suffer, neither is it one behind me, for its loss; rather, what I suffer is the Cross of Being whose weight is only as great as my misunderstanding of its purpose in the birth of my soul, and in the forthcoming Conscious Humanity whose perfection it heralds.

Topics covered: What is the point of an experience if it carries us right back to where we started?; What is the point of experience if not to learn and grow inwardly through the experience?; You cannot separate how you experience any given moment from the corresponding sense of yourself in that same moment; We are presently always giving ourselves a familiar sense of ourselves moment to moment...

I'm going to give you five ways to make the most out of every moment of your life. They're very simple ones. Then I'm going to explain each simple one. These actually are presented to you in a specific order because there's a broader story. Whenever I order principles, there's a broader story that's told in the collective understanding of them.

Revelation is not a product of time, rather (it is) the sudden appearance of an impersonal, timeless awareness within us. These “ah-ha” moments do not provide intellectual answers; rather they provide, by grace, a glimpse of a higher order of awareness...

In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the difference between merely thinking about spiritual ideas and the actual awareness of the truth of ourselves in the present moment.

The only thing that really troubles us is that our attention doesn't belong to us. Presently, something calls for us and claims our attention. Every errant thought and feeling that passes through our psychic system commands that we attend to what it tells us to, and then tries to direct us to what we have to discover based on resistance to the moment produced by our misplaced attention...

Exercise: Become aware of the flash/cash card in any moment, when that flash of thought appears and you feel tempted to go with it. Work to bring yourself back into the present moment and see that wanting to go with it is really selling yourself to it.

When you catch 'Simon' talking to you, come to a complete stop, bring yourself back into the present moment, look inwardly and ask, who is talking to me? Allow the moment to be naturally balanced through your conscious awareness of Simon's suggestions, instead of unconsciously doing what Simon Says.

Guy Finley talks about the difference between the conditional love that we currently experience, and the real, higher kind of love that our hearts long for, which can only be realized by loving and living in the present moment.

Exercise: Work to attend to the whole of any difficult moment by agreeing to the disturbance while being present to what disagrees in you.

Classroom Talk: 11/09/2025 -There are thousand different ways to wrap a gift, but there’s only one way to receive the true “present” moment…and that is to be open to what it has come to give you.

The present moment and our awareness of it are one consciousness, much in the same way as the Eye of The Beholder shares an awareness of both the mirror, and the object it reflects.