If we must fall in spiritual battle, let it not be fear that brings us to our knees, but for the failure of our strength. For any strength tested and found lacking in our hour of need is renewed and made greater. But, when fear is renewed, it is our weakness that increases, and we find ourselves having fallen faster and faster.

Once you realize that you don't "need" those (dark) voices in your head to tell you who you are -- any more than you'd pick up a jackhammer to help you peel an apple -- you're well on your way to a new kind of independence requiring no one and nothing outside of you in order to feel whole.

When you finally see that you can have almost anything that you want in this world, but that nothing you give to yourself actually brings an end to your wanting, then you will slowly cease to give yourself to this painful nature that actually lives to want Which turns out to be what you really wanted all along.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of August 28, 2017. Fearing failure, he fails; being willing to fail, he succeeds in freeing himself from the fear of failure. Being free of the fear of failure, he stops resisting whatever seems to oppose his will. He succeeds in all the days that follow because he's learned the greatest lesson that earthly life has to offer: when his will is the same a...

Our lives in these modern times seem to consist of nothing but one problem after another. The level of mind that we live from currently is constantly trying to resolve everything that it sees as a problem. Our minds are often preoccupied with trying to change what we don't want, and so we find ourselves resisting life as it comes to us. But is it actually "me" that does not want my present ci...

The wish itself -- to be a higher person -- comes to you from a higher place and is received in its inner equivalent within you. This means there's already an existing connection between the you that you want to be and the you that you presently are; between the new destiny you would have, and the fortunes you've known. All you have to do is stay on the royal road that has brought you up to th...

Guy explains during a recent Online Study Group meeting why this work is predicated upon creating, by our efforts, the inescapable presence of second force. The more we are earnest in our work, the more willing we are to meet what we have to because we've seen there is no other way.

Sometimes we feel discouraged because our past efforts to meaningfully change our lives have not prevailed over what challenges us. We think, why bother to try now? Perhaps we are disheartened because one of our main hopes for happiness suddenly proves hopeless. Maybe we get downcast some days because our body, or our mind, is no longer capable of doing what it once could in our younger years...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of December 1, 2014. Part 1: Those who seek the Kingdom of Heaven are always in the right place, at the right time, to see their cup filled, and to drink from it... as freely as they will. Part 2: You have been granted a relative forever; a living 'time' in which to either find a freedom and permanent fulfillment that only love can provide... Or, to live...

Topics covered: Saying 'take your hands off of me' to the nature that prevents you from speaking your heart; Anything I can learn about myself is good for me; The only way a divided mind learns about itself is via immersion in that which isn't divided; You cannot be prepared for the touch of God, and yet you must spend your whole life preparing for it; If you're not wrestling, you're not worki...

Classroom Talk: 8/4/2019 - The body can be disciplined. The mind should be trained. But, spiritual realization requires that one's wild heart be surrendered.

Imagine a man lost in a series of deep and dark caverns. He anxiously shouts out "Hello!" and then strains to listen for a response. A heartbeat passes and in the distance he hears "Hello, hello." His spirits surge and off he races in the direction of the caller. He doesn't understand it is only an echo. He doesn't know he is following the sound of his own voice -- a voice that is taking him d...