From this day forward, be a careful observer of the moving pictures in your own mind. Learn to watch all the various scenes without casting yourself as any of the players on the screen. Remember, nothing you see in that darkened theater is who you really are.

We have an essential need to be at peace. Part of that essential need to be at peace is to know that we are in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing, and to know it in such a fashion that nothing can come along and convince us that we are not. Have you ever thought to yourself "I'm doing the right thing at the right time" and someone said, "No, you're not," and everything fe...

Topics covered: The value of personal prayer; How do we stay present; Are disturbances the same as sensations; How do I handle a confrontational situation; I feel inadequate to overcome my negative states; What is undivided awareness; Is it true that any sense of 'I' is false; Why was I born; I've noticed that past memories don't bother me as much as they used to; Interpretation of Christ's wo...

Topics covered: An impression is always fresh and new, and the first touch is uncontaminated and immaculate; We are created to be vessels of gratitude; You take the small to be the all; As time collapses we see the bigger picture, and the distance between the event and gratitude is shortened; Either God is good or he's not; God doesn't take things away, he changes the conditions under which yo...

Never fear the loss of what will, and must disappear in this world of passing time. The work of remembering this timeless, (but unwanted) truth is the same as connecting yourself to the love of an all-embracing, fearless awareness... that never dies.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 4, 2013. When all is said and done, our experience of "where" we are -- any condition in which we find ourselves -- is inseparable from what we are; which means the following: Until we realize the truth of this invisible unity our resistance to, and suffering over unwanted moments amounts to nothing more than an unconscious struggle against... a...

Any time you're rushing around, under pressure to hurry up and 'get it done'... you may be assured of the following truth: not only will you run right by the (real) purpose of your life... but crossing whatever may be your "finish line" of the moment will prove itself as meaningless as the time you wasted trying to get there.

Here are five reasons why the interior work of remembering yourself should always come first: 1. An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat. 2. The temptation to be self-degrading can only be dropped by seeing the secret self-love in it. (Then, instead of looking down on yourself, you can begin to learn what it means -- and what it costs -- to look up and away from this false s...

The 'death' of what lives in the dark of you is the same as the birth of a new order of yourself that is no longer afraid of the dark.

Your understanding of -- and therefore your relationship to -- passing time depends upon living in Presence, the conscious act of remembering (the whole of) yourself. Practicing this Presence is an active relationship... a dynamic partnership between attention and awareness that once married serve to reveal a Timeless world already present within an equally Timeless you.

Nothing is missing from our lives except for our not yet awakened ability to see this essential truth: just as fire needs wood to express its warmth and light, so too do we need the "darkness" of what we have yet to understand about ourselves. It rarely occurs to us, but *there is a greater potential in what we don't yet know about this life of ours than there is in what we've already seen...

There is only one reason why we ever become negatively inclined, let alone surrender ourselves to the debilitating embrace of any dark character that comes calling for us: We have forgotten that within us dwells a Light whose power grants us the right to choose the kind of company we keep.