Student Talks: 01/09/2026 - Revelation is not a product of time, rather (it is) the sudden appearance of an impersonal, timeless awareness within us. These “ah-ha” moments do not provide intellectual answers; rather they provide, by grace, a glimpse of a higher order of awareness whose peace is inseparable the Divine intelligence it permeates.

Classroom Talk: 12/18/2022 - We cannot hope to find true peace without fulfilling the purpose of (our) life, and we can't fulfill that purpose without awakening to the Web of Divine Relationships within which the purpose of (our) being has already been sown. So that anything working to interfere with this realization is, at best, delaying its revelation...

Learn to let go of conditioned ideas, conclusions and pictures of what you think you must have to be safe and content. Inner life author Guy Finley and Dr. Ellen Dickstein discuss how the freer we are, the fewer choices we have to make as we learn to flow with the peace of the present moment...

Classroom Talk: 4/17/2022 - There is a very strange feature as concerns most human beings: we would rather feel anxious thinking about unwanted moments over which we have no power, than to practice placing our attention in the fact of that moment... where no thought is needed to build a bridge between ourselves, and a timeless peace whose Presence all of us seek.

Key Lesson: Even if I am told what is true, it is not yet the truth. Even if I am shown what is true, it is not yet the truth. Only as I see what is true for myself does Revelation begin, and with it the work of resting from my labors for having glimpsed a peace that passes understanding.

Classroom Talk: 11/21/2003 - We must do more than just try to remember that nothing disturbs our peace of mind without first having gained our consent to enjoin us in that conflict; we must learn to fight for ourselves, to boldly reject any negative state that would rule us -- or else accept the lot of victim and wear his mantle of woe.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 27, 2014. Until the peace and pleasure found within yourself is equal to -- or greater than any consolation found outside of yourself -- then your power to be patient, loving, and profitable in every moment is, at best, conditional.

Anyone or anything that asks you to be untrue to yourself has already acted against you.

Calling on, and then allowing a spirit of unrest to help guide you to the peace that your heart of hearts seeks...Is like hoping that a stiff winter wind has come, just in time, to help you gather all the leaves that lay scattered across your lawn.

The anxiety inherent in ANY dream of "when and then" can only end in the here and NOW...

Topics Covered: There will never be peace until we each begin to understand the unconscious mechanism that is responsible for the conflict we experience; The consciousness having the negative reaction always blames something for the pain that it is actually responsible for; If we are having a negative reaction, then we must believe that we know the meaning of the moment...

Topics covered: What we call 'I' is identification with sensation; The mind seeking peace and rest is disturbing itself; Mosaic Law vs. Christ's life - one was based in morality, the other in relationship; Laws would be unnecessary if we were conscious; Nothing in creation is finished, it's all in the beginning; Your spiritual work begins by connecting you to your body's senses; Everything abo...