The real underlying limitation in our relationships is rooted in how we look at and think about others who are in our life.

It wasn't that long ago that men and women understood that the purpose of prayer wasn't to bring things into their lives to make their lives better. It was so that through prayer, they could bring themselves into a completely different order of their own consciousness.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of September 4, 2017. It's not some task before me that I suffer, neither is it one behind me, for its loss; rather, what I suffer is the Cross of Being whose weight is only as great as my misunderstanding of its purpose in the birth of my soul, and in the forthcoming Conscious Humanity whose perfection it heralds.

There is no solving the mystery of ourselves without having first solved the mystery of (our) pain... which is why so few become self realized, let alone set free...

Topics covered: Useless struggle is the effort to maintain the self that believes outside conditions to be the cause of its experience; The mind that cannot see itself is forever set against itself; The sole/soul purpose of all true teachings is to get an individual to see that nothing is missing; Our present level of consciousness sees transformation as a process of becoming, through the acquisition -- in a time to come -- of something that is missing...

Topics covered: There is no life without death, and there is no death that is not the fulfillment of life; We judge others for their weakness because it seems to prove our strength; The purpose of all true spiritual teachings is to bring about a change of nature that cannot be brought about by thought; Reincarnation is first and foremost what happens to the level of consciousness that repeats the same painful patterns over and over again because...

Student Talks: 6/2/2023 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Realize the amount of pain in your impatience, and in that revelation you will also know the extent to which you're deceived about who you are, and the true purpose of (your) life. Part 2: The vast majority of humanity views the idea of spiritual rebirth as a prize to be claimed: some sort of special possession, like winning a tropical island in a high-stakes lottery.

Classroom Talk: 10/28/2018 - Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of November 5, 2018. All our relationships, particularly with those we love, exist for a single beautiful purpose that expresses itself in two different ways. Our partner -- whatever role they play in our life is there to help us grow; to provide just the conditions we need to become the better, truer person that both of us know we're meant to be.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of September 23, 2013. Part 1: The purpose behind working to be present is not to put away what's troubling you; the act of being in Presence is to invite the revelation that the unwanted moment you're seeing (in that same instant) is inseparable from the nature of the seer. Part 2: The sleeping mind is a house of mirrors, and whoever enters into it, fir...

At all times everything, everywhere, is unfolding as it must. Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view. In down-to-earth terms, to resent the person who cuts you off in traffic does nothing to change either that scary moment now passed, or the sleeping nature of...

Classroom Talk: 7/2/2004 - The secret purpose of that self-loathing nature in us -- that wants us to suffer today for what we could not do yesterday -- is not there to help us make straight our mistakes, but rather to ensure that we waste the rest of our days struggling to escape the ache of useless regrets. Awake! Detect and reject despair! It is not the guiding light it seems to be, but it is a cold heat that compromises any heart into which it seeps.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 30, 2015. A flower in the process of blooming doesn't go looking for what it needs to fulfill the purpose of its existence; the very presence of its beckoning petals and delicate fragrance attracts to it all it requires... with no extra effort on its part, whatsoever. As you work to realize your True Self... opening yourself to the revelations n...