Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 14, 2016. The inevitable sense of emptiness that eventually nips at the heels of most men and women is the sudden realization that in spite of having 'banked' a billion self-stimulating sensations -- even when all have been added up -- they still amount to nothing.

Topics Covered: Desire is not the answer to the sense of being incomplete; Enter completely into the emptiness; What measures everything will never know what is immeasurable; Revelation of our consciousness is the beginning of not being afraid of it; The only thing that bothers us about anyone else is what we want from them; The first priority is to see something that...

Part 1 It isn't the "emptiness" of life that we reject; what we resist in such moments is what we have filled that emptiness with. Part 2 In order for something to "appear" it must have an empty space into which it can appear; and for something to "disappear," it must have an empty space into which to vanish. This means that emptiness is neither empty nor full.

Who among us hasn't found themselves conjuring up some imagined pleasure when faced with the pain of some contradiction in life that seems greater than our ability to deal with? If we're honest, we can see that most of our time is spent identifying the so-called cause of our discontented conditions, and the rest of our time is taken up trying to change our unwanted situations into what we ima...

Student Talks: 3/07/2025 - The inevitable sense of emptiness that eventually nips at the heels of most men and women is the sudden realization that in spite of having "banked" a billion self-stimulating sensations -- even when all have been added up -- they still amount to nothing.

PART I Only the fullness of God can bring an end to his emptiness. PART II Within the need for God must God somewhere be.

The reason we resist virtually all endings in our life--wherein we feel as though something has been wrongfully taken away from us--is because these same unwanted moments leave us feeling terribly empty inside ourselves. In truth, it is this overwhelming sense of emptiness that we detest, and not the changing condition itself that we so habitually protest. So when things..."

Part I The only way in which hell can be escaped is by seeing its essential emptiness. Part II Spiritual progress consists in leaving behind your heavens each time it's seen that they have become your hells.

When things naturally come to a close in life, our pain isn't so much born of the fact that something now ends, as it is that within this moment of ending, we are forced to meet a certain order of emptiness in us for which we are just not prepared. We are brought face to face with a great void in the center of our heart that we thought had been filled. And then we make this common, but largely unrealized mistake...

Topics covered: A necessary realization along the upward path is that there are parts of you that do not want you to realize the truth of yourself; Although not really aware of it, the question of "Who am I" sits behind every pursuit, both worldly and spiritually; We are told that we are missing something, believe in the absolute truth of that idea, and then search for what we are told to pursue...

What hurts, what's painful and pressurized, isn't the event that you fear: It's being full of fear that hurts....

Regardless of how dark or empty any given moment may first appear, it acts only as a herald of the living light he needs to see his way home to the Divine.