Topics covered: An impression is always fresh and new, and the first touch is uncontaminated and immaculate; We are created to be vessels of gratitude; You take the small to be the all; As time collapses we see the bigger picture, and the distance between the event and gratitude is shortened; Either God is good or he's not; God doesn't take things away, he changes the conditions under which yo...

Classroom Talk: 7/30/2023 - Part 1: Faith flowers into Love; Love is the fulfillment of faith. Part 2: To live with the perpetual fear you may "do the wrong thing"... is to be doing the wrong thing that you fear. Part 3: Whatever may be the welcome appearance of some familiar path promising to lead you away from a moment in life that you fear, be not mistaken: it is, by any other name, the path of fear.

Part 1: The more perfect the reflection, the less difference there is between the perceived and the perceiver. It is the absence of this distinction that the divided mind, the false self, fears above all else... for its very sense of existence depends upon feeling apart from all that it sees. Part 2: The love that you uncover in your heart for God is as un-measurable as God's love itself becau...

Topics covered: Why do I keep making the wrong choices despite knowing better; How do I handle a rude coworker; How do we understand Judgment Day and the Afterlife; Can fearing God be a point of connection to the Divine as much as love is; I fear losing myself in higher consciousness; I have removed myself from affirming relationships but still can't connect to higher love; How do I support fa...

There's no such thing as having a bad day, only our (present) inability to see the Good in it...

Classroom Talk: 2/25/2024 - Just as the eyes that see the sun cannot understand its light by which they behold the shape and beauty of all things, neither can the heart understand the love that calls it to know and encompass all things. Eye and heart are creatures in time, but Light and Love are not. Even so, all meet; and to be a silent witness to their inexpressible union... is to realize the pathless journey to the indwelling Divine.

When you finally see that you can have almost anything that you want in this world, but that nothing you give to yourself actually brings an end to your wanting, then you will slowly cease to give yourself to this painful nature that actually lives to want Which turns out to be what you really wanted all along.

If you've ever wondered why things must happen as they do -- and it's only those unwanted or otherwise painful moments that we ever really question -- it's because (it seems) the only time we're capable of honestly examining our own heart is during a time of trial. But what, exactly, is it about challenging moments that bring us this opportunity? Troubling times make it possible to see into...

As difficult and shocking as it may be to consider, within us dwells a certain level of unconscious desire that loves... to not want. It has but one purpose: This part of us "lives" to resist anything that doesn't live up to its expectations. Why would anything want to live like that? Because what this dark nature likes most of all is being negative!

Topic: Are You Being Courted by Love? (1/4/15 Classroom Talk)...

Topics covered: What are your thoughts on teaching these ideas to children; What is the proper use of the mind when we catch ourselves in identification; What is the meaning of 'I am the way and the truth and the life'; I experienced a high-energy state and am not sure what to make of it; What is the meaning of the Lenten season in connection to this work; I have thoughts about leaving this li...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of February 3, 2014. Suffering over unwanted moments does not mean the world is against you, or that it has suddenly turned upside down. Your pain appears, as it does, for one reason, and one reason only: it is trying to tell you that your priorities in life are out of order... which means they need a dramatic re-evaluation leading to a new, truer arrang...