Student Talks: 8/2/2024 - Key Lesson: Only in a sustained conscious awareness of our (own) suffering are we awakened to see, and to know, accordingly, the healing presence of a Divine Light: a living, loving intelligence that reveals and conceives -- all at once -- the possibility of perfect compassion.

Student Talks: 8/4/2023 - Key Lesson: 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...

Topics covered: Every true teaching is designed to help you see that, spiritually speaking, you cannot truly do what you think you can do, ie: complete yourself; Everything that happens in your life is part of the purpose of your life. What is in your way is part of the Way; Much of our lives now involve an incessant and exhausting search for a sense of security that cannot be assailed by any condition.

Topics covered: Worry never gives back a return on the investment of time, energy and tears that we pour into it; The moment a disturbance comes up, the only thing we know to do is remand ourselves over to a consciousness that can only worry about what to do about it; The general reason why we worry is that something in us believes that things are not the way they are supposed to be...

Student Talks: 10/8/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Everything is temporary. Part 2: Resistance to any unwanted moment fixes, at once, an unwelcome sense of self that then feels stuck in the negativity it struggles to escape. Liberation from this sorrow begins as we awaken to realize a shocking truth: there is no psychological suffering that isn't rooted in some form of unconscious...

Topics Covered: We have never been angry at someone else without also being completely justified in that anger. The justification excuses us from examining whether or not the anger is harmful; Chronic repressed anger can and does harm the physical body, compromising our health, and it also corrupts the soul; The real pandemic is unchecked negativity in the form of anger...

Topic: See the Truth About Whatever Disturbs You and Be Set Free (1/20/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: See the Truth About Whatever Disturbs You and Be Set Free (1/20/19 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 12/3/2003 - To pause before we engage some condition within us that compromises our wish to be free -- for fear we are not yet well enough prepared to win that struggle -- is the same as failing to prepare. Many battles are lost like this, before they begin! Our hope lies in challenging our captivity, not in consenting to it. Truth sets those free who will carry its Light into the fight.

Here is what we must see if we would be free: In the throes of any unwanted moment we're not just resisting what we see as responsible for our pain, but, imprisoned (as we are) by our own negative reactions...

True compassion is without direction and free of distinction.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of July 28, 2014. We want to be free of negative states, but refuse to bear our share in carrying the weight of them, a necessary act of self-sacrifice that is the mandatory interim stage between being burdened by the false self... and being set free from it.