Exercise: Let yourself be reorganized. In the moment of any big event, high or low, realize that any sensation of feeling 'good' or 'bad' is actually your identification with something that is passing in time. Work to remember the whole of yourself, which automatically brings you into another order of awareness and attention that instantly removes you from the pain of clinging to your old unde...

Exercise: Spend time deliberately looking at something and feeling what you see. You will need to be empty, not allowing anything within you to change what you see. Then work to see what you feel, which requires that you be active in the moment. You can't separate pure seeing from pure feeling. In this act of double attention, where the active and passive worlds are married, you let the Divine...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 11, 2013. Each moment reveals the point of our life, because everything in -- and about our life -- has brought us to that point.

As we awaken, one thing becomes clear about our suffering, and our endless struggle to bring it to an end: by ourselves we cannot complete ourselves, anymore than a puzzle has the power to assemble itself. So that whatever we're tempted to do, plan, or become to make ourselves whole must belong to a lower level of self that seeks what it does to avoid seeing its own incomplete nature. There is...

In the end, nothing we can win in this life can enrich us half as much as what we are willing to lose for the sake of living without fear.

Topics covered: Discussion of the double attention exercise interiorly and exteriorly; There is no true 'I' when you're lost in thought; The world wants to sell you what you can do, but you want to see what you can no longer be; Discussion of the words evil and Satan; The only truly happy person is the one who understands that everything is exactly as it should be in that moment.

Topics Covered: Discussion about the lunch exercise; All untethered boats eventually sink; Every light eventually goes out; Without attention there is no connection; God is not in touch with humanity, he's in touch with a few individuals who are in touch with humanity; You are the hope of the world; Desire is not love; We're not meant to spend our lives serving ourselves; The man or woman at p...

Topics covered: 'If tyranny and oppression ever come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy;' A human being that is set against himself is a good definition of someone who has no sanity; Nature is not set against itself, so how is it possible that a human being can hate himself; If a human being lived in reality he couldn't be set against himself; 'Give me liberty or...

Topics covered: Student observations from practicing attention exercise regarding gratitude; There's no gratitude in familiarity; We live within fields of energy that are all connected; Resistance causes a collapse in the field of possibilities; Discussion of movie 'What Dreams May Come'; All that is in the dark must come into the light; You can't integrate the parts of you that you're afraid...

Topics covered: Discussion of the new active double attention exercise; Imagination is the ultimate enemy of the aspirant; Intuition is the key to insight; Intuition is the indicator of another order of being that comes from above; When we say that something comes to us from 'above' we mean from the fourth dimension, another order of time that holds passing time; The world is upside down with...

Topics covered: Review of the new double attention exercise with self-remembering; An event is a form of light; Resistance is a form of similarity; This work is about getting your heart completely opened and aligned; Toxic people don't cause negativity, they reveal it; Light isn't afraid of the dark; Once you become interested in what disturbs you, you are close to being free of it; Everything...

Topics covered: Student observations from practicing the free-memory attention exercise; The most valuable moments of your life are the ones that are the most excruciating; A psychological shock leads to a stop which leads to the possibility of real 'I'; You can't create the shocks that are necessary for your transformation but you can agree to put yourself in the situations where they take pl...