Topics Covered: How do our negative reactions begin? There is no negativity that is not rooted in resistance to the way that the moment unfolds; We get negative when events don't go precisely the way that we have imagined. This means that, without knowing it, we come into these moments carrying images; Everything that happens in any moment unfolds within us...

The following key lessons are taken from 365 Days to Let Go. Use their insights to bring you nearer to true freedom... Here is one of the great spiritual mysteries of all time. Freedom is either found within one's suffering or not at all; the only thing one escapes who runs from his or her pain is the possibility of discovering its purpose and how to transcend it. --- Real faith and...

Topics covered: self-discovery, revelation, insight, denial, avoid, avoidnce, know thyself, truth shall make you free...

Topics covered: When you have heard the truth, you are forever in debt to it. What has been seen cannot be unseen; Heavy spirits, worried and anxious people, or ambitious people who refuse to see themselves cannot find freedom; Why would you give your attention to something that gives you an experience that you don't want?; Most of what you experience is produced by your...

Topics covered: Every psychological pain is the outcome of a unseen desire having been thwarted; The source of your pain is the disparity between what you desire and what you can't possess; What seems like a new, reconfigured desire always comes in to fill the hole left by an old desire that was not fulfilled; There is really no such thing as a new desire. The only things that seem new are the objects of desire.

Topics Covered: We are born into a world in which we are taught to fear suffering; Fear of suffering comes with the idea that there will be a time to come in which we will no longer suffer. Fear always creates the idea of a time to come; The only thing that the unconscious nature knows to do with suffering is to create a "tomorrow" to escape it. Suffering is inseparable from a nature that has...

Topics Covered: Analyzing our thoughts cannot do one thing to change the nature of the consciousness that those thoughts are coming out of; Every time that you take part in a lie, your soul cries; We have almost no awareness of how deep runs this level of consciousness that lies to protect itself from what it imagines has happened to it that threatens its identity; There can't be a lie without...

Topics Covered: The inner work we must do is simple, but simple does not mean easy; The world is populated with people who measure their value, and the value of others, through their possessions. People believe that they will not have a life without what they want or don't want; All psychological fear is connected to an identity crisis. One of the root fears is that we will cease to exist...

Key Lesson: Part 1: The divided mind -- driven as it is by unconscious desires -- is very similar to a dog that has learned to throw its own stick. It cannot come to a rest until it has exhausted itself, and even then it can’t let go of what it feels compelled to chase. Part 2: The cost of starting over spiritually is not what we pay to achieve some distant desire, but it is in our...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of May 2, 2016. Allowing your mind to dwell on any unwanted moment -- anticipating that the more thought you give to finding a solution to that pain -- the sooner you'll be set free from it -- is like hoping to escape a prison cell by walking into it and locking the door behind you.

Topics covered: We are more concerned with how we are being perceived than in being attentive to where we are and to each step that we take; Not wanting to be where you are is the same as not seeing how you just stepped into where you are. It is your attention takes you to the place that you don't want to be; What is it that keeps us reliving what we don't like? Because we keep giving ourselves reasons why it is necessary to relive it...

Though few understand the truth of the following, freedom is (always) a question of possibilities. Prisons, of any kind, strip away our possibilities. For example, (an inmate) has lost the simple freedom to just wander where he wishes, outside in the fresh air, under no authority other than what he wills in that moment. But there are other kinds of freedom, higher orders of liberty – for in...