It is a Truth: we must be moved along by life, for we all play a role of one kind or another in the world of passing time. Each must mount some appointed stage in that hour of need. But it is not true that one must feel anxious and rushed; such anxiety, and its painful expression, is not a natural part of passing time, for all there dwells in its place accordingly.

The meditative life is not limited to sitting down someplace quietly, nor is it limited to someplace in time where we can control conditions so that we can experience something of a quiet mind. It can be said that meditation is the active relationship that an individual has with the whole of his or her life. Indeed, if we were able to see clearly enough into our own life, we would see some...

In a moment of crisis, would you say that you're easy-going? Are you wide-open and joyous to be with? Or, in a crisis, would you say you're about as tense as a human being could possibly be? Isn't that true? The more tense you are through resistance, the more negative you become. The more negative you become, the more resistance resists itself. And the more you resist yourself, the more tense you become. So you run left, you run right...

Classroom Talk: 11/11/2018 - Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of November 19, 2018. Anyone who rushes through life always finishes last! This is a truth unseen by the masses, but evident to those weary of going nowhere fast. You race as you do to escape the unhappiness you feel being where you are, running toward what you imagine will free you from that dissatisfaction. But such races are always lost before they be...

My mind is a constant racket. The thinking noise never seems to end. Something has to be done about this way of reacting to life that has plagued me for so many years. I have to find a way to remember at the outset of any crisis that God is in charge and that there is no reason for me to leap into anxiety, rage, or violence because I do not realize what is going on nor can I control what is go...

I am at the end of my rope and can find no one else to help me. I have such a sense of worthlessness; it is like my soul has been ripped out. There is so much anxiety, tension, confusion, insomnia, and now illness. Can you help me find a way to get peace of mind? What realistic strategies are there for me in this circumstance? What can I use to pull myself out of this awful nightmare? (From st...

A quiet mind never goes out looking for guidance because it never gets lost in thought...

Topics covered:  What you call "your love" is sustained only as long as conditions seem to support that love. As soon as conditions change, what you called "love" is replaced with disdain, anxiety, fear, resentment, and hate; Take the fragments of Truth that you hear into your heart, and that Truth will lead you to the next Truth; When you dwell on an image, even an image of the Divine, you are without knowing it dwelling on the love of yourself.

Topics covered: How do I deal with a pattern of anxiety and stress; What is Being; Why am I unable to act quickly on what I know I need to do; Our present nature is constantly in a dream; We don't see the pit coming because we're already in it. The consciousness itself is the pit; Dreaming in physical sleep versus dreaming in spiritual sleep; We dream because we want to escape what we are; Pai...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of July 18, 2016. Rushing somewhere, through anything, in the hope of finding some imagined peace of mind is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!...

Part I: Think of how many dangerous car accidents wouldn't happen at all if only motorists slowed down their cars even to a small degree. Then imagine just how many painful personal encounters with others we would be able to walk right by - without a hint of a hurtful collision - if only we could slow ourselves down enough to see them coming! Part II: We don't feel the pain of our rushin...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of June 26, 2017. Part 1: So great is the need of the false self to feel itself as being "important" that it never stops imagining the scenarios it needs to give itself the feeling that something vital is almost always at risk. And, as incredible as it seems, it uses this ensuing, self-created state of tension and anxiety -- a pain that drives it from pi...