Topics covered: Why we feel the need to control events in our lives; The past is comparison; Wishing things were different than they are; Do what is in your power and refuse to do what is not; What is the purpose of every moment; Our relationships can be used for revelation; Overview of Guy's book 'The Secret of Your Immortal Self.'...

Student Talks: 8/25/2023 - Key Lesson: Having no real direction of its own in this life... a wandering mind is incapable of recognizing the difference between finding the promise of (another) false purpose to live for, and the pit into which it falls... as it's tempted to reach for the treasure it imagines it has found there.

Topics covered: Discussion of Guy's online workshop on 'Relationship Magic'; Discovering one's purpose in all relationships; Exploring what it is that draws us to or repels us from particular relationships; Relationships awaken us to parts of ourselves we weren't aware of before; Learning to use differences to heal past misunderstandings; Reverting back versus converting to a new relationship;...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 1, 2018. One way of knowing that you have found your true purpose in life is that you no longer wish to be in any place other than right where you are.

Is there anything in the Universe that isn't touching something and being touched at the same time? None of the creatures that you find in nature can choose what touches them or what they touch. They are involuntarily moved by great nature for the purpose of perfecting the whole of nature itself. As human beings we have been created with a unique possibility, which is that we can be aware of...

Topics covered:  The end of fear is not only possible, it is the purpose of your life to realize the end of it; The worldly kind of success and security that you pursue turn into things that you fear losing; A river is constant, even though it is never the same river. It is the same with real life itself.

Topics covered: All true spiritual teachings have a singular purpose, and that is to call human beings into another world that already exists within them; An unconscious nature within us believes that it is superior to everything that it judges; The love that lifts a person above the loveless world of thought has an infinite capacity to recognize perfect similarity...

Topics Covered: Who is going to heal who?; How do I stop suffering?; Everything happens for a purpose; Relationship to reality; Finding our natural place in unwanted moment; The pain lies the not wanting nature, not in the event it doesn't want; Why do we stay with abusive people?; Wanting to remember the Divine; Making a new start, starting over; Stop hurting yourself...

Topics covered: The Light is already a part of who you are; Negative states are undeveloped states of consciousness; We are a reflection of what is eternal, divine and immortal; Relationships reveal the purpose of existence; The authentic spiritual life includes conscious suffering; Resisting unwanted moments cements the condition we don't want; Who you mistook yourself to be was never you; Re...

Topics covered: Discussion of Guy's book, The Courage to Be Free; What is a true initiation; Our foremost responsibility is to be in the Presence of the Living moment; Why it takes courage to effect real change; Understanding the lower nature; Resistance breeds negativity; What relationships can reveal about us to us; Rising above the world of opposites; Spiritual self-sufficiency; The purpose...

Question: My father just passed away, and after fifty years of marriage to someone who was significantly dependent on her, my mother is struggling to find her purpose. I'm doing well thanks to Truth teachings. I've shared them with her when I felt it might assist, and she has responded. Any words you might have for her would be welcome.

Topics covered: True exploration of your consciousness cannot be for the purpose of escaping from something, nor to confirm what you already know; The defintion of "insanity" is doing the same thing over and over again, and hoping for a different result. The same could be said about "addiction"; "Addiction" connotes the idea of unwilling service to something that is harmful.