Classroom Talk: 5/13/2005 - The real test of our love for the Light of Truth is not when life is bright, but is best measured when nothing goes right. For the love of Light at mid-day is easy; but to remember it in the dark of night -- to struggle to recollect ourselves into its sheltering glow -- demands a conscious choice. Are we to be the one who feels forsaken by the Light we profess to love, or will we be the one who never forgets that true Love never dies?

When we are "driven" to succeed in this world, it is always to arrive at some point wherein we will no longer feel as though something is missing in us. All such drives in us are doomed at the outset. Here's why...

If you took the branches off of a tree, would the tree have the same meaning as it does with the branches? No, the tree would not have the same meaning because it would be missing half of what it is. The tree would no longer be whole. Love is when the reflection and the reflected are the same thing. The meaning of something cannot be found apart from the whole of it. Our present mind does not...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 12, 2015. It's Love that reveals what love isn't... such as in that higher order of revelation when -- by grace -- we're given to see that what we've always taken to be a loving, or otherwise kind part of us is, in fact, secretly self-serving.

Part 1 There may come a time when it feels as though love has abandoned us... Or, that it is so far above us as to be out of reach; nevertheless, of this you may be assured: love is always with us; it never leaves us: it can't... Any more than a heartbeat can live apart from the heart that sounds it out. Which means the love we hope to find -- to know, keep or to grow -- as the case may

The real test of our love for the Light of Truth is not when life is bright, but is best measured when nothing goes right. For the love of Light at mid-day is easy; but to remember it in the dark of night -- to struggle to recollect ourselves into its sheltering glow -- demands a conscious choice. Are we to be the one who feels forsaken by the Light we profess to love, or will we be the one...

Can a loving, true friendship between a man and a woman exist without physical attraction or sexual desire? Is this kind of love impossible?...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of December 29, 2014. What can't be accomplished by someone willing to suffer for what he or she loves, especially given the fact that -- in this world, or the next -- love always prevails. On the other hand, examine the lives of those who know only to resist their suffering; the power that prevails therein... is pain: a dark power that progressively blo...

Here is a simple set of instructions for those who want their love to last: Don't try to please each other, for each of you has constantly changing pleasures. Instead, strive to please love... and in this you will please what is capable of being loved in one another. This understanding alone nourishes your love, and in turn love will...

Love is a latent interior "hunger" we all feel through our longing to know -- deeply -- someone or something to which we are drawn. And Love understands that whatever we will agree to draw near to ensures -- given time -- we will come to know it; and then, transformed by Her magic through a marriage of a sort, we become as one with what was once unknown to us. Don't think this too...

Most of us try and take from life as much as we can struggling, in vain, to end a longing that never fails to prove itself endless. To see the truth of this is painful, but it's also the only way to discover what we've really been searching for all along: The only thing on earth that is truly without end is our capacity to give ourselves to life, to others, and to the Love that binds us to...

The power of being unconditionally kind towards those who unconsciously hurt us is just one of the gifts of higher love. In a way, it gives our heart "eyes" that can see what they were blind to before. For example, by its light we're able to see that the needs of others are really the same as our own, an insight that makes it impossible to mistake their pain as being somehow less...