Work to solve the mystery of your self, and realize the healing solution to every suffering one must face in this life. But, refuse Life's invitation to true self-realization, and the great Gift hidden in this sublime mystery is turned into a misery that has no solution.

We affirm the Light of Truth -- not by professing its powers on sunny days, but in choosing to walk by its Light -- no matter how faint -- even in the midst of our darkest hour when all that we see before us is defeat.

We cannot be made a captive of any psychological condition to which we have not silently granted our consent.

Whatever thought or feeling we mistake for being the same as our self must, eventually, corrupt us -- much in the same way as an eagle, confined to live in even the finest cage, eventually forgets all about the freedom of open skies that were once its sole domain.

Blaming conflict-filled feelings on any condition, or person, outside of yourself is like getting angry at your shoes for being laced too tight. So here is an effective inner life step designed to help you grow and develop greater spiritual strength: No matter what happens, never blame anyone -- or anything -- for the way you feel. Rising above the blame game is the same as learning how to be...

True faith is to know -- without taking thought -- that a Living Light has already seen to a right and bright outcome for all things before it's revealed to you.

Seeing the spiritually lost state, the interior bankruptcy of other human beings, can be used to accelerate your own relationship with the Divine, but only if you understand that you are not on this earth to judge the nature of others, but to transcend it.

Whatever it is that we wish to let go of must be something from which we wish to be free. This may be unpleasant or troubling relationships, a problem-filled past or fearful future, any form of addiction, recent painful events -- or any of those disturbing thoughts and feelings about these same troubling things that we no longer want in our lives. The truth is that troubles like these come wi...

Whatever thought or feeling we mistake for being the same as our self must, eventually, corrupt us -- much in the same way as an eagle, confined to live in even the finest cage, eventually forgets all about the freedom of open skies that were once its sole domain.

Part I: Further deliberation over our captive condition cannot liberate us from it any more than we can hope to repair a leaky faucet by buying a new plug for the sink. Part II: Better to wait, trembling, upon the open ground of what we love than to seek shelter in the fear of what will become of us.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of July 1, 2013. Without some form of unconscious identification to nourish its proliferation, no negative state -- no punishing anger, fear, or worry -- can grow beyond the boundaries of that level of consciousness from out of which it appears.

Topics covered:  "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." -- C.S. Lewis; What is the nature of the emptiness that we have never been able to escape no matter what we have done?; Depression is the inevitable outcome of misunderstanding. It is a sin (missing the mark) to fall into depression because life has not given you what you want from it.