Letting Go author Guy Finley explains the esoteric meaning of the well-known passage from scripture "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." The kingdom of heaven is not a destination, it is a place in your own consciousness that is revealed moment to moment within you. As you enter into this timeless, undivided space...

"Father, forgive them: for they know not what they do." Guy Finley explains that real forgiveness is an act of realizing the similarity between yourself and those that have caused you suffering, because you understand they suffer in the exact same way that you do. The scripture "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do" points to this type of "immaculate compassion" towards others which...

In this answer to a viewer's question, Guy explains that following a higher will begins with seeing the lower will that currently runs your life. The more you see about yourself, the more you are able to choose to be in a higher order of relationship that alone has the power to change you.

Student Talks: 5/17/2019 - Key Lesson: In a world of unconscious beings -- steeped in an ever-increasing immorality -- self love is worshipped as Godliness; where, for the sleeping masses, hypocrisy -- practiced to perfection -- passes for goodness. It has always been this way, so that anyone who comes to shed light on the...

Topics Covered: The importance of not embodying the state you speak of; Creation is the gradual formation of matter from free energy; Energy into principle into matter; Any form of resistance cements what is resisted; You have to get to the point where you're no longer interested in not wanting to be you; God never punishes the human being who makes an attempt to see what they are shown; You d...

Topics Covered: Pride is inseparable from identification and attachment; Thought is always superficial; Thought is a buffer; Animals are at peace with themselves; Why can't I sit still; There's no noise in Being that Being doesn't use to further ground it in its own nature; Peace is understanding that disturbance has a purpose that the mind can never know but that your soul is designed to be a...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of July 16, 2018. Powers, pleasures, and possessions cannot "add a single cubit to your stature" any more than the ocean is enlarged when -- as is likely to happen on any given day -- surface winds and undersea currents create more waves than usual to roll across its endless surface.

To change what we receive from life, we must have a new perception of it, beginning with new ideas about it.

Topics Covered: The opposites are actually a cicle; "Will" cannot be separated from "condition" in sleeping human beings; There is a direct relationship between purity, clarity, humility, and the Kingdom of Heaven; Poverty is my greatest wealth; We have a gluttonous nature that thrives on feeding on negativity; Real emptiness is within a world that's completely full; Humans have being; Becomin...

This, our world... is a virtual desert, but not because the earth herself is infertile. Rather it's because we -- human consciousness itself -- are barren: we bear no Light, let alone the Child within us... meant to be born out of its abiding Presence.

As we awaken, one thing becomes clear about our suffering, and our endless struggle to bring it to an end: by ourselves we cannot complete ourselves, anymore than a puzzle has the power to assemble itself. So that whatever we're tempted to do, plan, or become to make ourselves whole must belong to a lower level of self that seeks what it does to avoid seeing its own incomplete nature. There is...

Guy explains that in order to come into a real life, you need to work to stop passively giving into fear and start taking action that allows you to see yourself as you are. As you start to see the truth of yourself, you'll begin to discover possibilities you never knew were in you. Here's an exercise designed to help you be proactive in your inner work.