The reason we haven't as yet realized real rescue -- and so usually wind up trapped in a tangle once more -- is because every time we ask ourselves how we've managed to get stuck again, we usually turn right around and tell ourselves the answer.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 21, 2016. Part 1: It makes no difference to whom, or at what we point the finger of pain as the figure to blame for our suffering, because until we are aware of our own hand in these same unwanted moments... nothing can change. Part 2: The unconscious assumption that the more negative we are towards any given situation -- given the "wrong" we se...

The whole idea of learning to live with "controlled stress" is like believing that not only are you in control of a war you didn't start, but that you're on the winning side...

The perfect strength of the Divine is its infinite capacity to love: it is a living light that neither judges, nor hates weakness; (it is) a supernal force that never falters in its eternal work to reveal, and heal all who are willing to receive and enter it. This act of grace is something that weakness does not want to understand -- let alone embrace -- because to do so would release it from...

Our willingness to see the difference between real and false strength brings about an inner change that puts us in an entirely new relationship with life.

We are wrongly led to believe that life makes us into the kind of person we are. In truth, it's our level of self-understanding that makes life what it is for us! This is why nothing can really change for us until we see the truth of the following: trying to change some condition in life, without first changing the consciousness responsible for its appearance is like... blaming the mirror for...

Our task, if we want to be free human beings -- if we want a life in which we no longer carry around with us "what he did," "what she didn't do," "what never worked out" -- begins with discovering that there can be no real freedom for us until we understand the nature of the tyranny of the past that still lives within us. One of the main areas of this unchallenged dictatorship that still holds...

We can continue to suffer over what amounts to the pain of resisting what remains "broken" in other human beings...

The consistency of any painful, negative reaction to some person or event doesn't prove -- as we imagine it does -- that the “guilty” party remains unchanged as “charged.” Rather...

The birth of true will begins with your discovery that -- at your present level of spiritual development -- you have none; that what you have always called "doing" is no different than a puppet dreaming it pulls its own strings... in spite of the fact that, more often than not, the puppet is moved to act against itself and others. Only through the love of something unknowable within yourself,...

One of the things that makes letting go seem so difficult is the way in which our spiritually asleep mind looks at life: it sees cause and effect as being separate operations. This means our usual action toward anything that troubles us is to struggle with letting go of that unwanted effect. The problem is our usual reaction blinds us to the fact that the actual cause of our unhappiness is not...

I was thinking this afternoon about the man who introduced you to me. What would I say to him now, if we could meet? Did he have any idea what he was doing? Had he given any thought to what was going to happen to me? How the rest of my life, every facet of it, would be shaped by that moment our paths then crossed? Did he understand I would lose everything I treasure because the only constant...