What a strange mystery; a paradox locked in some seemingly timeless conflict. After all how can all of us feel this great need for change, to make ourselves and the world we live in a better, a kinder place to live for all...

The following eight points are essential spiritual truths. Individually they represent vital lessons that must be learned along the Path to Real Life. Collectively these same truths hint at the promise of a spiritual power for which there is no substitute: The certainty, compassion, and quietude of a mind filled by the Light of Truth. For the best results read each of these separate truths...

Classroom Talk: 12/8/2002 - There are two paths through life thought to lead one to a happy Wholeness. The first path is littered with all manner of glittering things that one thinks are needful to complete oneself, while the second path is the way of discovering what one can live without. The former path is always cluttered, and leads only to increased conflict and self-compromise, while the latter path is as simple as it is peaceful in its native innocence.

The great circle of life is imbued with a unique kind of "gravity" where all that lives is drawn to join itself to a larger body of life.

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 about it.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of June 15, 2015. Here's the most important thing to remember whenever you find yourself racing to get some where, or rushing to the imagined end of some task: what you are really reaching out for in that moment is the ineffable shelter of a quiet mind: a peaceful state of Self that -- whenever you'll slow down enough to remember its Presence -- reaches...

We are born into a world, into a mind that convinces us of the ways we must go about pursuing power, so that when we find ourselves feeling negative -- worried, stressful, angry, frightened -- it's because we are in relationship with something inside of ourselves that has told us we will lose power if things don't go as we imagine they should. So we wind up serving our imagination and a body of desire that we have no essential awareness of at all...

How many times in a day do we find ourselves having gone after something that we wanted, only to find ourselves "gotten" or "done in" by what we have reached for? Then what happens? The crying, complaining, bitterness, blaming starts: "Oh, why is this happening to me? This isn't right!" We can't see how we actually participated in producing the moment in which we find ourselves compromised, an...

The following are examples of ways in which one might use the "Be Thou" prayer following one's work with any of the exercises in double attention. Each of the following eight simple prayers is to be felt by the whole of you, one by one, as you address their corresponding parts in the order shown here. As you become aware of...

The more clearly we can see that it's impossible to reach a place of rest by rushing to get there, the sooner we'll arrive at the true solutions that allow us to relax, slow down, and realize the relaxed pace of an inwardly liberated life.

Topics covered: Discussion of the live-streamed series on Authentic Change; How can I stay on track with projects; Can psychological irritation cause physical problems; Trying to find a peaceful place after my husband passed away; Should I move on from my relationship; I have regrets about how I treated someone who has since passed away; I don't feel much love for anything and wish to open mys...

Classroom Talk: 8/30/2002 - If we could only learn to go consciously quiet in the face of some unwanted or otherwise fearful moments, then we would realize a kind of Real miracle: for in that same intentional silence (of ours) we would hear this adversary before us begin to tell us all we need to know about the meaning of its fearful appearance, as well as what actions to take -- if any at all -- to put us upon the best path to a peaceful solution.