Topics covered: Any moment of seeing a truth changes the nature of the seer; You really give something up when you have nothing to replace it; When you really understand something, it is a moment of something new being born out of something that has come to an end; The acronym "FBRS" from the doctor story stands for "Fixed By Resistance Syndrome"; When you don't want a condition...

Topics covered: The root of fear is the mistaken belief that something outside of yourself can make you whole; The fearful self must defend itself against anything that threatens its image; Who you really are has no beginning and no end. But you must stop trying to save yourself in order to really know that; Not wanting a negative state actually nourishes it. Resistance is a form of negative attraction.

Topics Covered: Resistance is bondage. "Not wanting" is a form of bondage that can't be separated from its opposite of "wanting"; Within every imagined want is contained the fear that what we want will not come; There is another order of our own being that cannot be made less than it already is; Silence is not just the lack of sound, but it is backdrop and foundation that allows...

The gifts given to Jesus at his birth represent the relationship of reciprocity; We don't live in the real world, we live in the world of "never was"; As we are now we give only what we think we can afford; There is no "I" the way you think there is; Judgment is always resistance to a condition; You've been conditioned to believe you're not supposed to have a negative reaction...

Topics covered: Boredom is the byproduct of an incessant state of resistance; Boredom is the outcome of unseen conflict; The mind generates excuses for its fearful state; The mind must make an object out of whatever it wants to know; There is no such thing as the future you hope for; The future should never be tied to the past; Borrowing will from intention; The observer can't fail; You are th...

Topics covered: You can't be a part of the All unless you're Its nothing; Your resistance to life is initiated by personality; Rushing is relaxation to tension; Everything in physical life repeats itself; It is a law in this world that everything is circular; Food is energy that has been converted from light to form; The spiritual journey is from matter back to energy back to light; Awareness...

Topics Covered: We are awash in a world of resistance which isn't just global in its formation, but finds in us a willing instrument; It doesn't matter what this world does because this is not your world; We all suffer from SFS and FOPPS, which stand for "Stage Fright Syndrome" and "Fear Of Poor Performance Syndrome." The symptoms of these syndromes are anxiety, worry and self-doubt...

Topics covered: Review of the new double attention exercise with self-remembering; An event is a form of light; Resistance is a form of similarity; This work is about getting your heart completely opened and aligned; Toxic people don't cause negativity, they reveal it; Light isn't afraid of the dark; Once you become interested in what disturbs you, you are close to being free of it; Everything...

Topics covered: Why do we prefer the torment of our minds over being present; To be present costs you something; You are developing something in you that can sustain attention; Creativity requires imagination and imagination requires emotion; Your mind is always in a dream world; If I'm asleep then I'm in danger; Resistance is the father of negativity; You don't prepare yourself for God's life...

Topics covered: Desire promises to deliver us to a higher place but because it originates from a lower place it can't connect to what's higher; Choose presence over fantasy; You must learn to stay in one place (psychologically) long enough to study yourself; Change is not possible without revelation; No one can be reborn until they die; Nothing grows stronger without resistance; It's only when...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of December 30, 2013. Painful tension is nothing more than unconscious chronic resistance (to life). This means one's suffering isn't the evil spawn of some dark condition unfolding outside of oneself, but rather (it's) the unhappy effect of identifying with a deeply divided mind that believes the best way to deal with unwanted moments is... by not wanti...

Topics covered: Discussion about "The Secret of Letting Go"; Real life doesn't have avoidance in it; Resistance to a condition is the same as identifying with it; No psychological fear exists without negative imagination; When the student is ready, the teacher appears; We can't know something is true unless its character is already residing within us; The only thing that troubles us about othe...