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...

Classroom Talk: 2/9/2022 - Seen properly, only self-liberation is possible; this highest form of freedom begins with being completely honest in all of our relationships, but especially as concerns the one we have with ourselves.

There is one incorruptible law, a cornerstone truth in the foundation of all relationships, that must be realized as being true for each of us if we wish to help ourselves and others grow in what is good for all. And since this law represents principle, there is no escaping its perfect justice. The wise person comes to love this law because through it he is granted freedom from wanting to hurt...

Part 1 Identifying with a negative reaction over some misstep we made, and then becoming even more negative because we can see our fallen estate... is exactly how the dark parts of us do their dark work in the dark of us to ensure we stay negative and living under their dark thumb. Part 2 The proof of our unconscious, yet consensual, relationship with a lower level of self that l...

Our reluctance to throw ourselves into life with all that we are -- to abandon ourselves, come what may -- is born of the fear we may not be enough to succeed. But the truth is that within us dwells more than we take ourselves to be, and only by leaping do we learn of unseen wings that open only in mid-air.

Whatever we try to go around in ourselves guarantees it will come around again, which is why the things we fear in life and about ourselves always tend to reappear. Here's the law that governs this relationship: whatever we resist in life persists as it does because whatever we oppose grows!

Part I: Not only is beauty in the eye of the beholder, but so also is ugliness; and this simple truth is a timeless fact that those who fear self-knowledge fail to see. The Wise understand that Truth is always beautiful, even when it is hard to look at sometimes. Part II: Better to pursue the promise of Truth for one's whole life, than to catch a lie and learn to live with it.

Part 1 Self-realization is synonymous with agreeing to make whatever sacrifice is needed to live within Presence; it is the "on the spot" successive payment of one's self -- by one's Self; it is the cost of a conscious relationship with the Holiness of Life... known only by shouldering your part of its plan as revealed in each passing moment. Part 2 It is impossible to be present to...

Seen properly, only individual freedom is truly possible; but this liberated state of being requires total responsibility (from those who seek it) for each of their actions, and in all of their relationships.

If all of creation didn't share something in common, something invisible... yet in some ways more real than the objects that reveal and manifest that relationship... then how could the death of a tree bring life to the forest...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 6, 2014. There's only one way to realize the unshakable sense of safety and serenity of knowing that you are 'first' on God's list, and that is to remember, at all times, your wish (and the work) it takes to place His life ahead of your own.

Starting life over begins with bringing a conscious end to all lingering relationships you may have with old thoughts and feelings that want you to keep seeing your life through their eyes.