GF: Welcome everyone and Happy Holidays to you. I am sure that it is safe to say that worldwide, over the last few days, billions of people have made New Year’s resolutions. Perhaps you are one of these individuals who long to take control of their destiny: to be more kind, less lazy, better disciplined, or not be as selfish and self-centered. But I would assert that every year, even as the t...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of November 14, 2016. The basis of real life -- of existence itself -- is exchange; whatever appears or disappears is the momentary expression of this Law. This is why the only thing that we can keep -- that is authentically our own -- is the Divine part of us that not only sees and understands this truth, but that stands in a stillness relative to it, a...

Stop Making Painful Mistakes Before They Get Started...

Life, in the broadest sense of it, both spiritually and materially, is an expression of an eternal descending and ascending set of forces: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" -- the principle of expansion and contraction, light and darkness, ascending and descending archetype ideas then brought into physical creation.

All of life is present, at once, in a timeless awareness; each and every creation -- from a molecule of water, to the river that carries it to the sea -- is connected in a seamless circulation of planetary and celestial energies...

Being in conscious relationship with what is Holy in life is only as possible as we are willing to see, and to be, accordingly, the whole of who and what we are in each moment...

To SEE that the dark shadow of any dragon is just as unreal as the shadow of the treasure that it guards... is the doorway into a world wherein no fearful shadows can dwell.

Be wise. Stay Awake. Remain attentive to all that you do, for there comes no second error that doesn't follow on the heels of the first.

If we are truthful about our life experience though, it is obvious that as long as we believe we have something to lose because of our identification with any temporary exterior condition or circumstance, we remain subject to every outer condition.

Getting to the root of the root in us...will never be reached through any act of the intellect, regardless how astute it may be with analyzing things. Being able to connect negative reactions to their hidden root requires a willingness to "pull back and out" from oneself (and the reaction). One must work to see the nature that's reacting, and not what it gives us to look at, blame, or otherwis...

One of the most slippery parts of the upper path is the temptation to judge ourselves -- to loath ourselves for whatever "weakness" is exposed to us in the moment. The act of judging ourselves in times like these seems natural and even necessary if we hope to ever "outgrow" our own limitations as revealed. But this kind of self-laceration is a Trojan horse within whose dark recesses lies...

Whenever we are not present and properly attentive to ourselves, we may be sure the false self is busy attending to something we'll be paying for in the days ahead.