Whatever storms you are given to face on your long journey back home, work to remember this truth... and be assured the day will dawn when you will know the unconditional freedom you seek: Your struggle is with yourself, and yourself only.

Here's the most important thing to remember whenever you find yourself in a mad rush: what you really want, what you're really after, is a quiet mind... a peaceable state of self reached only by realizing there is no place more empowering for you to be than in the present moment.

There is nothing in God's Universe that can keep you from remembering the Truth of yourself, therefore all falsehoods and their unhappiness are rooted in our forgetfulness.

Topics covered: Dealing with shame in the workplace; Career path not going as expected; Is the path to eternal life found through self-remembrance; Need more clarification on abusive relationships; Meaning of Psalm 23 and walking into the valley of death; Problems communicating with teenage son; How can something like fear exist without God having created it.

The key to regaining command of yourself in any moment you start to feel as though you're in a rush is to remember that who you are and what you are is made to be changing and transforming the moment you are in.

Unless our “productivity” in life serves to increase our soul’s receptivity to the living Light – then all that we make for ourselves is an emptiness that passing time never fails to reveal.

Part 1: A real wish rises out of the ashes of expectations realized and found wanting. A false wish is a temporary flame that -- no matter how many times answered -- never quells the fire that gives it birth. Part 2: The difficulty of remembering the Truth of oneself is inseparable from those parts of oneself that much prefers remembering something more to their liking!...

The next time that life comes knocking with what you "don't want," instead of allowing yourself to be dragged through the old round-around, make these three new choices, and watch how they dismiss the darkness knocking at your door: Your first choice (always!) is to come wide-awake to yourself. Remember: Your new aim is to not allow old, mechanical reactions..."

Just as the physical eye can't see itself other than through a reflection, you cannot see your "self" other than by gazing upon some mental image of your own creation. So, when "seeing" yourself as a failure in your mind's eye, just remember in that same moment it isn't you who made that picture, and that...

Whenever you find yourself in the grip of some mental or emotional suffering, your first action must be -- assuming your wish is to be free -- to remember this one, all-important spiritual fact: no dark state can enter into your heart or mind, let alone remain there, without first having deceived you into welcoming it in, and then convincing you to take its side as it "proves" to you... that...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of November 10, 2014. Our love for what is Right, Bright, and True is constantly being tested... Not only by that timeless spiritual Light that calls us to take its side, but also by the nature of that darkness created in its absence... through which we must walk in order to realize our intention to be whole, fearless, and free.

In this Saturday discussion the question of justice leads to working with the discovery that moment to moment, we all do exactly what we love.