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...

You can’t be “no one.” The choice is be someone defined and confined by the limitation of thought, or to be (the) One who sees and realizes -- without having to think about it -- that (the) true Self is indefinable...

I have followed you for many years, and now I need a little encouragement. I am 84 years old, and pray a lot. Years ago, I was told I had brain problems... and now I am on my way to Alzheimer's... not a good prospect. A message from you and your knowledge will surely help.

Those who live in dreams never realize how deep runs the temptation to dwell in them...

When, before our inner eyes, we always have someplace better to be, or find ourselves struggling to "add a cubit to our stature," we miss seeing two great liberating truths...

Topics covered: New Year's resolutions always revolve around wanting to keep the so-called "good" parts of what I call "me," and not-wanting what I call the "bad" parts; If you want to have a new life, you cannot bring old wants along with you; There is an innate longing to be in relationship with what cannot be expressed in words; True spiritual teachings are not recognizable by the consciousness that has faith only in things seen...

The higher purpose of suffering is to ground us in the existence and Presence of an altogether higher level of (our own) Being...

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

My most contented hours are those filled with emptiness; and I regret -- as comes their appointed time -- having to fill these precious moments with what is little more than the mandatory, but mostly empty business of this world...

It's always the right time to discover something new and true about our own nature...

Is it possible to use my marriage to further my studies in self-development? If so, how? Is it possible to avoid the ups and downs of a relationship? There are days when I'm sure that my partner is the love of my life, and the next we are at each other's throats. Where does the love go? Is it possible to realize a higher, more constant kind of love?...

If we cannot force a mind to be quiet, how does a quiet mind come about that is not forced? Am I correct when I think that we are not to be engaged in analysis of any thought when we are meditating?...