Following are five ways in which your awareness of the power of now can transform each challenging life experience (or memory) into a new and true beginning for you.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 7, 2016. The real victory in life, the only one that lasts beyond passing time and changing circumstances, is awakening to the realization of another order of being -- already within your Self that neither time nor circumstance can ever take from you.

Topics covered: It requires faith to change what we give our attention to; Faith in its earliest form is awareness of another order of being and therefore another order of time; That which you seek already exists within you, and can only be realized through your attention, so that you might enter into relationship with higher principles; Everything that seems to obscure the way is part of the way...

Classroom Talk: 11/6/2019 - Here's a great secret: anytime you feel like you "can't" go through something -- do what you want to -- or maybe just handle whatever needs to be done, remember the following: This painful sense of "I can't" -- including the legion of heavy thoughts that seem to anchor you to it -- is NOT you. Who YOU are...

Topics Covered: We are rendered powerless any time that we get caught up in an interior dialog. Most people do not know how much time they spend talking to themselves; As goes my attention, so comes my experience. Attention connects us to whatever it has landed on; We believe that talking to ourselves is the way in which we bring an end to pain. But that dialog is part of being...

You'll never know how forgetful of your self you are until you make the smallest effort to be self-remembering.

Topics covered: The world is about done in but nobody sees it happening; Our attention doesn't go to what is natural, it goes to what sustains our sense of self; We have a nature that moves through life like it's moving through a buffet table; Only humans have the capacity to commune; No attention, no presence; The laws of this world are designed to ceaselessly divide and spiral downward; The...

Topic: Being Unstoppable: How to Walk Through Any Fearful Moment; Questions: What is the difference between the whole of awareness and the whole of existence; Should I look for a partner or trust the relationships I need will be given to me; How to deal with past mistakes; Can dark forces control you through your eating; Does 'honor thy father and mother' refer to active and passive forces; Th...

The clock tells time, but its hands also show that times goes nowhere -- even though it takes a hundred parts in constant movement to impart that truth. The force "to do" what is Right and True comes to us only as we free ourselves from those forces draining us of our power to perfect the moment. We can dream our lives away -- always trying to make ourselves into what we imagine is "right and...

Without an anchor, a ship is carried off by any shallow current or wave that passes beneath its bow. And so it is with us... as long as we try to navigate through this life without...

Topics covered: We don't want to escape our consciousness, we want to transform it. Negative thoughts and feelings don't need to be overcome, they need to be understood; You cannot resist something and learn about it at the same time. To resist is to separate, to push away; The problem with our attention is not that there are too many distractions. The problem is that we do not possess our own minds. Until we possess our own attention...

Topics covered: The value of personal prayer; How do we stay present; Are disturbances the same as sensations; How do I handle a confrontational situation; I feel inadequate to overcome my negative states; What is undivided awareness; Is it true that any sense of 'I' is false; Why was I born; I've noticed that past memories don't bother me as much as they used to; Interpretation of Christ's wo...