Topic: The Endless Journey of Love (12/23/18)...

Topic: Don't Hate the Dark, Love the Light (10/26/14 Classroom Talk)...

Each time we see the need to let go of something -- a bad habit that drags us down, an unsatisfactory relationship, a career choice that can't complete us in the way we dreamed it would, or maybe unrealistic expectations of ours about others that eventually spoil our partnerships with them -- whatever it may be: what is it that's actually happened in these moments of honest self-examination? S...

I'm sure we can all agree that no intelligent, conscious man or woman would ever intentionally hurt him- or herself. No one would choose to ache. Yet the fact remains that all of us do hurt ourselves every day with bursts of anger or fits of depression or anxiety. Even at the simplest level, there can be no doubt: fear and worry take an immeasurable toll on our health and well-being. So, then,...

Topics covered: The world is not responsible for your pain, it reveals the pain that's already in you; Judgment of others always follows the rejection of seeing yourself; Real action doesn't leave a footprint; Being rightly active towards a negative reaction means not becoming a passive vessel for it; The more awake you become the less you want to change because you see you can't change yourse...

Starting out, the aspirant believes that his struggle is just to awaken himself. But, as he awakens, the aspirant sees an increasing need to serve others in their wish to be whole and free, as well. Then dawns the day when the aspirant realizes that his struggle was never just for himself, or for the few he met along the way, but to take part in the awakening of human consciousness itself: to...

Student Talks: 3/1/2024 - Key Lesson: 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.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of June 9, 2014. What good is the love of Truth without agreeing to embody the freedom it promises? This means that we must act from this love -- daring to embrace what is light, right, and true even in the midst of all that seems wrong within and around us. We must bring its flame into the midst of our storms and into that fear that comes with times of...

Whatever we do to encourage others, encourages us as well because -- in truth -- there is no separate self. The more we understand this, not only are we willing to extend a helping hand, whatever that may be... but we're also much less likely to judge another because... we've seen that we are the other.

Topics covered: What can an aspirant do to enter into a new state of awareness; Negative reactions belong to a part of you that you are meant to be released from; There is a purpose for why life unfolds as it does; Events are revelations; Each moment, good or bad, awakens you to the presence of a timeless quality within you; Learning when 'no' is proper vs. when it is a rejection of transforma...

The spiritual body that alone can stand the buffeting of unconscious opposing forces -- that ultimately learns to harness them for its own development -- is further developed each time we struggle, as needed, to remember that nothing in this world (or the next) has the right to use our own attention against us.

The longing to be present -- to live in Presence -- is the path. The "steps" are made up of all the discoveries one must make as to what prevents one from being properly attentive to the now, that unknowable world whose actions are the reflection of the holy.