To be a human being is to seek. There is a part in us that is incessantly seeking something. We are never not looking. When we start out in life, we have inside of us this longing, this seeking, and we look for something that will answer whatever it is that has come into us that says it needs something in order to complete itself. For example, I'm eighteen years old, and into my mind comes...

I am at the end of my rope and can find no one else to help me. I have such a sense of worthlessness; it is like my soul has been ripped out. There is so much anxiety, tension, confusion, insomnia, and now illness. Can you help me find a way to get peace of mind? What realistic strategies are there for me in this circumstance? What can I use to pull myself out of this awful nightmare? (From st...

One maxim of self-development I sense is true is that the way out of any stressful situation is to "go through it." How does this approach apply to reducing stress-producing thought-attacks? Everything depends upon our ability to inwardly discriminate between thoughts and feelings that are for us as opposed to those that are against us. Whenever confronted with an onslaught of internal i...

The sense of any disturbance within us is the awareness of being touched by Life. The part of us that resists this unwanted sense of being "upset" by life is, in fact, powerless to restore the equilibrium...

Topics covered: We live under the government of an order of being that makes sure we do not understand that the Divine knows what we need before we know that we need it; We have wishes that we think are our own. But not one wish that we have originated with us; We have the capacity to manifest some of the things that we desire, but the things that we desire never come with the peace and fulfillment...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of November 27, 2017. The more we realize our higher purpose in creation is to atone for the difference between "what is" with "what has been" -- by surrendering any part of us that stands in the way of this reconciliation -- the more we see this sacrifice as inseparable from the ineffable peace that comes with being in the right place, at the right time...

If you want to know the peace that passes all understanding, then you must learn to do two things at once: First, reject the false belief that what's taking place outside of you is responsible for your pain. Then, in that same moment, dare to see that the true source of your conflict -- including your sense of being held a captive by it -- is inseparable from your resistance to realizing this...

When we’ve seen that we can’t "prove" ourselves in this world without having first compared ourselves to it -- and that this endless comparison is the unseen root of conflict...

Topics covered:  Without knowing it, something in us sets out each day with the secret intention of remaining the same as it was the day before; We say that we want peace and freedom, or a relationship with the Divine, but psychologically speaking, we spend our time defending old beliefs so that what is old and familiar remains in place; You can't transcend the nature that wants to remain as it is unless you first SEE it.

Topics covered:  "Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done." -- New Testament; For us evolution is imagination of the direction we need to take in order to finally be at peace. But you cannot evolve yourself. You cannot evolve into new understanding by yourself; Every true instance of evolution involves a relationship with that which asks you to give up who and what you have been.

Topics covered: If I can put my attention where I want, I can't be compromised by anything; You must not try to receive life; The nature that can be carried away by a want will never know peace; If you don't truly understand emptiness you will never know true fullness; We are afraid of leftovers; We need a 'me' detector to go in front of us into every moment; You can't know the nature of a wan...

Topics covered: You don't suddenly sink down into a dark world, you are given to see, by grace, that it is where you live; You are not at peace with your place; The divine cannot be approached through anything other than humility; There is no openness in the rejection of a moment; Your relationship with the divine needs to be unconditional; Dishonesty is the root of karma; You have to be separ...