What we put first, the choices we make in life are a direct reflection of what we value. What this means is that our experience of life -- for its pain or pleasure, darkness or brightness -- is a perfect reflection of what we want most in that same moment. Prove this truth to yourself, and you will put yourself on the road to putting truth before all else. We all have to drive places... work,...

Topics covered: Talks in the Pines 2017 "Seeds of the Soul"; Helping an addicted loved one; Are there spirits that can prevent material success; My family has expectations of me; I was in an abusive relationship and am afraid to love again; Is knowing yourself required before you can surrender; False impressions of myself; What to do when others make poor choices; Bogged down by guilt; Mistrus...

Topics covered: Discussion of Guy's new book on Relationship Magic; Blessed are those who cannot find peace, happiness, and consolation in this world; We are called to be in relationship with another order of being; Love brings us together so that we can see limitations in ourselves and release them; You cannot remain who and what you've been; My pain is not more important than yours; Love nev...

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...

Topics covered: What is faith; The love of what you are waiting for is what you are waiting for; Love tolerates all things; You couldn't feel the absence of something if it didn't exist; Knowledge is intended to be the seed, not the fruit; Intention produces revelation by delivering you to the doorway of limitation; What it means to go against yourself; As an aspirant you are agreeing to know...

Topics covered: Every question that the mind poses to itself actually separates it from the thing it's asking the question about; God defends those whom he loves; Meaning of the passage, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool; There could be no manifestation of hatred if love didn't exist; Your experience of any moment is inseparable from...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of April 8, 2013. Part 1: By love we overcome death, for death is an act of love... not the end of it. Part 2: Realizing one's spiritual helplessness never tastes good, nor does it ever go down easy; but, if our wish is to eat the Bread of Life, we must not turn away from the table set before us.

I know I should not worry about certain things in life; however, what am I to do when loved ones have chosen things that are not in keeping with the things that they have learned? What can I do to keep them safe and to guide them back on the right road? Inner work is not about trying not to worry. It is about seeing that worry doesn't work. How can a person who gives away his or her own lif...

There are times, seemingly dark, when I can see my sorrow to come. Sorrow that not only didn't I tell someone of my love for him or her, but sorrow also that I couldn't speak the truth of my heart -- or that I just wouldn't... For fear of being misunderstood. Sorrow that I didn't take a much firmer interior stand against what I could see defiled my soul, and sorrow that when I did attempt to...

You can either spend your life running away from dark moments -- wishing they would go away -- or you can learn to walk through them... Which is the only way to discover that Life within you whose Light can never be diminished regardless of opposing time or tide.

My sister and I are both going through heartbreaks. How do we best help ourselves deal with these losses?...

If it ever upsets you that others don't support or won't confirm what you believe is true, then it is your grasp of what is Real that should be questioned, not theirs.