Topics covered: What is my true potential; Can you define resistance; Is it normal to prefer to be alone as you progress in your spiritual work; Is there a contradiction in working not to be taken over by a negative state vs. entering into it; Does God need ego to be God; How did you become enlightened; How do I stay true to myself while surrounded by negative people; Do I need to be close to...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of December 15, 2014. The beauty of Great Nature is found in her infinite unique forms; her splendor reflects and reveals a ceaseless process of creation born of the timeless marriage of opposites. On the other hand, the ugliness -- the violence that can erupt in our human nature -- is first the presence, and then the pressure of a dark and twisted chara...

Topics covered: No negative state is a real feeling. Negative states are all born out of sheer resistance to a condition; Pure emotion is the result of a relationship between the observer and the observed. It's a feeling generated in the moment by the field that you are in; A real impression in any moment is the realization of your highest possibility in that same moment; You are always in a field of some kind, and everything you experience is a result of that field.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 28, 2013. Part 1: Our need to change, to be made new, is constant; however, so is our resistance to change. The former is inseparable from the freedom it heralds, while the latter ensures the continuation of patterns that imprison the soul. Choose the latter, and living becomes dying, but choose the former and see how dying leads to Life. Part...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of September 16, 2013. Any time you find yourself 'chewing' over some dark difficult moment -- in a struggle to resolve its suffering -- you are in the 'teeth' of the divided mind... So that the real reason for your pain is that you're unconsciously identified with what you don't want and, as a result, being consumed by an irreconcilable resistance to it.

Question: Thanks to your teachings, I have new understanding of how each experience reveals to me what I am in relationship with, and for the first time ever I see that I have the choice of knowing I am not thoughts of resistance, and that I don't have to follow any pull of false promises in challenging moments. I have seen a Presence that guides me, that allows an inner space in which to watch it all unfolding. This Grace has taught me that I am...

One of the reasons that you live with the pain that you do is because you don't understand that you don't have to. And the only way you're ever going to shake off that pain -- get off "the pain train" - is if you start to get fighting mad about what is making you the kind of human being that you are. I don't know if you can see it. I hope that you can. As a race of beings, we have become...

The real reason for impatience with ourselves, or with any other... has nothing to do with what, or who is blamed for it...

Only by daring to see the truth of ourselves in challenging moments will we ever see, and then be set free by the revelations that await us there...

Classroom Talk: 1/15/2020 - We cannot run away from what we don’t want to see in ourselves, any more than a mirror can escape whatever is reflected in it. And yet, to SEE the truth of this fact (about our present level of consciousness) is the action of transcending it, along with its pain.

Question: What about children? For example, my child is being disrespectful. I can clearly see that I am resisting and insisting that the child be other than what he is in that moment. I also see that I'm identified with something. I unconsciously want to be the mother of a delightfully flawless little angel. I do realize that that's nuts. But how do I carry out my duties as a mother without resisting bad behavior and insisting on good behavior from a young child?

The best things in life are not yet to come; they are inherent in the revelation of every moment in life...