Topics Covered: The comfort of certainty is the conflict with the moment; False certainty and conflict are one thing; You can't serve two masters, you'll love one and despise the other; Stay awake, watchful, a witness to what "Real I" in you must go through; Everything the mind formulates as the next freedom is the next prison; Give up the idea of "perfect"...

Actualizing our spiritual right to live without the frustration of fearful limitations is not a question of achieving something new; it begins with choosing to end a relationship with that which has never been true. So, it isn't a question of "What do I do?" but "What must I bring an end to?" Here for your consideration is a very common but false belief about what one must do or be in order...

Topics covered: Everything you do to "courageously" get rid of fear is the continuation of the fear; Not knowing what to do about whatever state is boiling in you is the same as actually seeing the state as it is; The thing that you feared your whole life is the place you find freedom. The antidote is in the venom; Emptiness will always be filled naturally if you will stop trying to fill it through your own efforts.

 

Classroom Talk: 1/16/2022 - We have but a single thing to do to nurture the soul and, in turn, fulfill our role in the Greater Plan of Creation. Our one true task in Life is to complete the moment as it is given to us to do. This is the principal agreement, and in our obedience to its will is found not only our freedom... but the assurance of knowing that whatever sacrifice we must make...

Topics covered: "It is wise to seek immortality because time defeats all other ambitions." -- Vernon Howard; The attempt to avoid suffering is an ambition. The attempt to avoid the experience of yourself is an ambition; Our daily wishes are rooted in the imagination of a time to come in which we will not be in the pain that we are in now; What human beings presently call "freedom" involves a time to come...

Topics covered: The more we think about the purpose of our life, the more we fear any moment that comes along to show us that our certainty is mistaken and misguided; Why is it that we allow thoughts to lead us around, when we ought to be the conscious decider which thoughts we will or will not entertain?; There is only one way to win real freedom from painful thoughts and feelings...

Topics covered: In the world of imagination there is no heaven, there is only hell disguised as heaven; The only thing that has authority over you is what you look to for a sense of self; A machine can never be free because it can only do what it has been originally programmed to do; A machine can only work within the confines of its own content; Freedom from the machine already exists...

Student Talks: 1/21/2022 - Key Lesson: We have but a single thing to do to nurture the soul and, in turn, fulfill our role in the Greater Plan of Creation. Our one true task in Life is to complete the moment as it is given to us to do. This is the principal agreement, and in our obedience to its will is found not only our freedom... but the assurance of knowing that whatever...

Topics covered: The loop of thought; The only way to find yourself is to be present to what is making you lose yourself; The fairytale story of Rumpelstiltskin; The power of turning the straw into gold is in the observer; Real gold is freedom from all of the parts of you that drag you down; The name of something isn't the knowledge of it; Thought doesn't offer solutions, it tempts you into con...

Topics covered: The work is about growing into a real man or woman; You fear your own emotions; Our intention is to have a right feeling towards a wrong state; Agree to see the difference between flesh and spirit; It is Perfection that allows you to see your imperfection; If I don't touch Forever, how do I do what needs to be done in time; Freedom has tremendous responsibility; The fruit of yo...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of July 20, 2015. Your mind belongs to you, and to you alone... which means that it is yours to determine who or what enters into it, and upon what terms; to forget this truth is to forgo the freedom that comes to those who are willing and able to remember it.

Topics covered: Spiritual love is never accidental; What we call caring is most often self-love; There is nothing new under the sun; Your habitual reactions are a prison; God is a body of intelligent forces; The more you taste freedom, the more you see your captivity; Observing tells you not only about what you're observing but yourself (the observer) as well; Being present at the onset of neg...