Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of December 24, 2012. Nothing true and timelessly Good has ever taken root and flowered in this world that wasn't first sown by love, cultivated through sacrifice, and watered with tears.

When it comes to true success in this life -- regardless of whatever world it is in which we strive for excellence -- there is no greater ability than to be able to do what we don't want to do, when we don't want to do it, and, in all cases, to do it well.

""I've been trying to think of a way in which to express to you something that's very important: No one is going to change you. The fact of the matter is that unless you do your own work inwardly, by law what is below you will gain ground. But if you do your work, what is below you will become part of what is above you. It's an ancient mystery and beautiful paradox. This school that you are pre...

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 begin because you can't outrun yourself!...

The dark powers that presently govern this world are secretly dedicated to the denigration of (true) character...which they slowly achieve through attrition, tribal glorification of imitation, and the growing sense of discouragement felt by anyone who sees the promise of humanity slipping away in creeping mediocrity. Whenever any government promotes and celebrates the idea of reduced individual..

Student Talks: 6/3/2022 - Key Lesson: When it comes to developing a living relationship with the Divine, good intentions cost nothing, which is why the road to hell is paved with useless coins. On the other hand, making conscious efforts comes with the cost of encountering the reality of our present level of being; of seeing what we are actually capable of doing, and what we are not...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of February 2, 2015. The vast majority of our mental, emotional, and physical patterns -- those repetitive, too familiar pathways along which we walk, are -- in fact -- the creations of an unconscious nature... and all designed to fulfill its unseen purpose: that in our constant, but ultimately meaningless considerations of all we see unfolding around us...

It's impossible to separate some false purpose in life from the pain that it produces.

It is what we attend to that determines what we will ascend or descend through.

A famous artist had a hit record long ago containing the lyrics, "I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter, and make believe it came from you." The next moment you find yourself with a stronger connection to what it really means to be a human being, sit down and write yourself a letter about what you think it means to be a real human being.

Guy Finley explains that each of us has the possibility of nurturing the "seeds of our soul" so that in their flowering we not only become a bridge between Heaven and Earth, but are also brought into another level of relationship with the Divine.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of November 14, 2016. The basis of real life -- of existence itself -- is exchange; whatever appears or disappears is the momentary expression of this Law. This is why the only thing that we can keep -- that is authentically our own -- is the Divine part of us that not only sees and understands this truth, but that stands in a stillness relative to it, a...