Topics covered:  The mind creates enemies through resistance to its own memories; You are not going to think yourself out of the experience of yourself. The thinking nature IS the experience that it wants to escape from; Most of us live within a repeating psychological pattern that includes the plans to escape from it. Eventually the human being becomes the pattern.

Topics covered:  We are not looking for new ideas to understand with the old mind. Rather, we are looking for a new mind that already understands; A moment of beauty is silent because there is no thought involved in it; A mind that is being consumed by itself does not think to itself that it is being eaten alive by its own thoughts.

The false self is very inventive; it's always busy creating - through imagination - some new way to make itself feel important.

When it comes to being in a hurry, what difference does it make how fast you can get somewhere when all you find there is the next thing for you to rush through?...

The parts of us that believe winning praise from others will release us from our painful hunger for that kind of approval belong to the same low level of self that first tempts us into eating what we know we shouldn't -- and that then calls us "Stupid!" for not knowing any better.

Topics Covered: What is the difference between little "I's" and the whole of the divine; I've battled with anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder since my late teens and don't know how to practice the higher ideas I learn; How do I help a young student in my classroom who is rude and hateful; Is conscience a conduit of truth.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of February 26, 2018. Any old and particularly familiar pain that repeats itself does so for a single reason: we believe that we understand the reason for its appearance, when nothing could be further from the truth... as evidenced by the reappearance of that suffering.

Remastered Classic Talk: 6/23/17 - 

Part 1: No evil can be done to me save for those moments when -- enmeshed in a forgetfulness not my own -- I can’t remember the Good.

Part 2: The pain of a thousand failed attempts to remember oneself, to put what is true before all else, not only disappears in the flash of each success, but that same light lingers, grows, and eventually comes to outshine the return of any shadow of doubt.

Part 1 We always seem so willing to sacrifice ourselves in order to fulfill some desire, and yet it is almost unheard of for us to sacrifice a desire for the sake of our Self. Part 2 The sorrow of man is that he is only free from his hunger when he eats.

Part 1 It seldom occurs to us that whatever we persist with in our lives works to perfect the same, so that by allowing persistent negative thoughts and feelings to have their way with us, we unknowingly perfect self-punishment! Part 2 As surely as raindrops have the power to make rivers or shape mountaintops, good fortune favors those who persist with their wish for what is Good.

Resistance recreates and then reinstates whatever it opposes, including the sleeping level of self that tries, in vain, to escape the pain of the opposing forces that created it.

As surely as the alcoholic's familiar idea that "just one more" drink won't harm him - and that such thoughts necessarily constitute (a part of) his unconscious captivity - so too must the following be true, in scale: the one who accepts the limitations inherent in...