Topic: How to Find Lasting Freedom in Spiritual Stillness. Questions: How can I stop listening to my thoughts; I want to stop destroying my relationships; Handling the death of a loved one; As my meditations get deeper, I'm experiencing nightmares; Why is communion with life easier in nature vs. a busy place; Learning to recognize thought patterns; The impact of antidepressants on my inner wor...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of September 29, 2014. We can't change others -- or the purpose of any given moment as it unfolds; but we can work to place one less demand upon both. Only in this action can we hope to find the freedom for which we seek, because the only thing that imprisons us -- in the end -- is our resistance to whatever runs against our deeply seated demands.

I am ashamed to admit that my fears get the better of me all the time. Even being fully aware of them in the present moment hasn't helped. I wanted to muster the courage to do something, but when I tried, the most horrible fear I ever felt came over me; I literally felt physical symptoms. Needless to say I didn't try... I knowingly gave in to the fear and walked away. Truth is, I don't act on...

Sometimes the touch of Grace is sweet; sometimes it seems bitter, hard to bear; yet, whatever its measure...

Understand this great truth, and bring an end to the real source of unhappiness: all unwanted moments -- points in time that seem to imprison you -- are really one and the same as the unwanted sense of your self that appears in those same moments. To see the truth of this... is to begin dying to that lower level of self that lives to feel dissatisfied. The only other path -- with its never...

Part I: External flaws and faults are nothing more than visible reflections of our own secret unfulfilled internal needs, so that before any such faults can be healed, these needs must be met. Only God can visit and mend the unseen splits lying buried in the soul. Part II: We must learn what it means to return to the interior realm of ourselves, something we each have the power to do an...

The following is a Key Lesson (for the talk that will be given this evening at the Foundation (Weds, May 18/2011). But, it is also a standalone insight and instruction that, once understood, opens the doors of perception and allows the one who realizes its truth to walk through what once seemed impenetrable walls. Here is a great spiritual paradox, but the first step towards real interior f...

Part 1 Any real intention we set for ourselves to rise above our present level of being is going to reveal a lower level of self that doesn't want to change. This is a powerful spiritual law that creates both challenge and opportunity at the same time. The challenge: agreeing to see how our unconscious nature -- encased and enchanted by its own negative reactions -- is incapable of doin...

Some things are true in one world, while not true in another. What's possible to see from a mountain top is impossible to see from the valley. What's real in one world, is unreal in another. To be able to see this seeming contradiction means that one is beginning to live in both (worlds) at the same time... which is the purpose of all true inner Work... to help one awaken to all thw worlds wit...

Around and within us reside invisible and powerful laws that rule over reality in all its infinite forms. These forces of instant righteousness, or perfect balance, are always at work. Nothing escapes their imperceptible presence; everything yields to the weight of their judgment. We've all heard the phrase, "What goes around comes around." This principle of karma, the idea that...

Attending to, completing what the present moment asks of you... is the business of real Life. In the silence of this relationship is revealed and received, all at once, the wisdom and wealth of your True Self...

The real cause of our unhappiness has nothing to do with which way events or relationships turn. Even though it often feels like it, dark inner states aren't born in the actual unfolding of any present moment, but are born afterwards, from unconscious resistance to any event that somehow opposes our wishes. It is clear that the source of our suffering isn't that life fails to live up to our e...