Here's an important idea to consider the next time some thought or feeling starts telling you (once again) to "make tracks" -- to "get away" from something in life that psychologically troubles or otherwise torments you. In its darkness, the mind manufactures many things to run away from...but how much actual distance can you put between yourself and these fearful apparitions when all of th...

My teenage son studies hard, but his grades remain below average. I would like to be able to offer him some trick about studying and taking exams that would help him to achieve good results. (From student correspondence)...

Topics covered:  A profitable human being is one who no longer serves fear; Truth comes to show you that you have not been able to change your life because you have been living an imagined life; "The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise." -- New Testament -- In a true reflection, there is no division.

It is a big mistake to believe that negative imagination requires we be present to its calculated organization in order to imprison us in what feels like some fearful, or angry sense of self; quite the opposite is true. Truth be known, our most familiar, if not dominant sense of "I" is thus manufactured, and our identification with the works of this dark machinery is the unseen source of most of our fear and sorrow.

Topics covered:  What you call "your love" is sustained only as long as conditions seem to support that love. As soon as conditions change, what you called "love" is replaced with disdain, anxiety, fear, resentment, and hate; Take the fragments of Truth that you hear into your heart, and that Truth will lead you to the next Truth; When you dwell on an image, even an image of the Divine, you are without knowing it dwelling on the love of yourself.

Question: I am troubled by something I read in The Secret of Letting Go. I do understand and agree with your point that a fancy job title accompanied your life seems to lack meaning. However, the "rules" of this modern era state that being passive and letting life come to you leaves you vulnerable to missing out on the opportunities. In other words, being proactive prevails while passivity...

To see that the places where we feel stuck in life are really secretpassageways -- provided for us to gain vital insight into our own greaterpotential -- is to no longer perceive these hurdles as a hindrance to success inlife. In fact, once we learn to welcome whatever challenges us, we stand atthe threshold of a new order of our own being, where never again will wefeel ourselves to be a victi...

Topics covered:  True teachings are not intended to console the listener. They are intended to produce new insights that change the consciousness of those who allow the truth to act in them; Before rebirth there must come a death. "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it." -- New Testament -- There is an order to things that cannot be twisted. True teachings talk about how things have become completely reversed.

Topics covered:  Most of us don't know anything at all about our obsessions. When a person is obsessed with something, he or she sees it as natural and necessary; Life is intended to be simple. Everything that is perceived as being difficult is, in reality, simple for the level of understanding that sees from a higher perspective; The Kingdom of Heaven is within. It is not out there in the world of thought and its temporary creations.

True Self-Remembering is where and when -- within us -- both the outside and the inside world are perceived and realized together in the unity of experience.

Part 1: The more perfect the reflection, the less difference there is between the perceived and the perceiver. It is the absence of this distinction that the divided mind, the false self, fears above all else... for its very sense of existence depends upon feeling apart from all that it sees. Part 2: The love that you uncover in your heart for God is as un-measurable as God's love itself becau...

""I've been trying to think of a way in which to express to you something that's very important: No one is going to change you. The fact of the matter is that unless you do your own work inwardly, by law what is below you will gain ground. But if you do your work, what is below you will become part of what is above you. It's an ancient mystery and beautiful paradox. This school that you are pre...