Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of July 10, 2017. Part 1: The longing to be present -- to live in Presence -- is the path. The "steps" are made up of all the discoveries one must make as to what prevents one from being properly attentive to the Now, the indwelling home of the Holy.

Part 1 True abundance cannot be attracted into your life any more than a flower needs to reach out to receive sunlight. The flower is the sun -- its fragrance, a perfume of light. The secret plentitude of anything created by the Divine is that it already is what it wants. So it is with your True Self. Part 2 People want your money and, with a sincere smile on their face, will he...

Following are what may be called the The Three A's of the Peaceful Life. Welcome them as special work reminders to let God's will be as your own. If you will take these new intentions and inner attitudes with you into your day, then you will soon realize what it means to let go and know peace. Work to trust in the Goodness of God's moment, so that instead of trying to dig...

Just as a those who climb mountains must, at times, reach above themselves to gain a grip on a narrow ledge, we too must dare to go beyond ourselves if we wish to reach, let alone change our destiny. To that end, we must never forget the following truth: There’s no danger in self-ascent, only in remaining who we have been.

Nothing makes us more common, more alike all that we judge, than unconsciously identifying with those thoughts and feelings that tell us we're somehow different, better than all that we see.

There is no greater waste of one's time than worrying over what someone else may or may not feel about you.

Despite our resistance to it, no unwanted moment in passing time -- in and of itself -- is ever "wrong", or "out of place." Our incomplete understanding of the reason for its appearance not only tends to color such moments "dark," but our unconscious identification with this false conclusion then acts to drag us down into that same imagined darkness.

Compared to the wealth of true self-knowledge, worldly riches amount to little more than 'chump change.'...

We need never accept the presence of anything in us that wants us to ache over who we are -- or are not -- for it is given to us to outgrow ourselves anytime that we awaken enough to see the need for it. And when is there a better time to let go of who we have been than when it is trying to pull us down!...

To the degree you understand that it’s impossible to cling to who you have been, and be free (of yourself) at the same time, are you empowered to let go and outgrow painful negative states...

All acts of impatience serve to secretly deflect the one critical revelation that as long as we meet life with any unseen demand, we can't help but be painfully remanded into the hands of one of these two self-punishing states: anger or frustration. They are the bridesmaids of any desire thwarted.

Each person is created with the tools it takes to master his or her own life. But self-mastery remains the ultimate mystery until that day dawns when -- weary of struggling to overcome what he blames for his conflicted self -- he lets go and enters into this darkened nature by becoming completely still. And by this stillness, he tames its wildness; and through this stillness he is given domini...