Topics Covered: There is never a moment without disturbance; An unattended mind is a perpetual misery machine; The task isn't to not be disturbed, instead the task is to see the nature that doesn't want to be disturbed; We rarely suspect that psychological fear is a dream; It is awareness that we are after, not a result; There is a level of consciousness that is a world of imagination...

We don't know that we walk around with our mind literally looking at the world around us through our eyes full of darkness. And the darkness that our eyes are full of is imagination and the self that it generates. Unattended imagination relies on what it imagines in order to bring into existence a simultaneously imagined self. It is the most dangerous force in the world, because anything that...

Topic: How to Perfectly Balance Every Moment of Your Life (Even the Most Painful Ones) (7/8/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 7/8/2020 - Part 1: Whether the winds of fortune blow hot, cold, left, right - in the face, or from behind - don't lean toward one, or away from the other. Instead, remain awake and stand upright; only a quietly balanced mind can walk - unharmed and unhurried - over the uneven surfaces of this world while doing no harm to others...

Classroom Talk: 1/16/2019 - The priceless Gift of Life can't be freely received -- as it is forever being freely offered -- as long as we meet it with any demands upon it.

Classroom Talk: 1/4/2019 - All passing moments -- seen as being high or low, for or against -- should be realized for what they are in reality: just another reflection moving across the mirror of Time, setting the stage for the next revelation of a Life too great to be told.

Classroom Talk: 1/2/2019 - Spiritual effort is not the opposite of grace; the former is how we invite the latter into our lives, which can be summarized as follows: As goes my intention, so comes revelation...And in its supernal light, self-realization.

Never fear the loss of what will, and must disappear in this world of passing time. The work of remembering this timeless, (but unwanted) truth is the same as connecting yourself to the love of an all-embracing, fearless awareness... that never dies.

Looking for the meaning of any experience by taking thought about it is like focusing your attention on the single thread of a magnificent tapestry and hoping to understand the story it tells by analyzing that one thread. The story is so much bigger than that and... so is your true Self.

Feeling compelled to act as the judge and jury of another for failing to exhibit some desirable characteristic or quality, proves the absence of that quality in ourselves.

Unconscious pain persists the way that it does in our lives because we don't know how to discern a true inner guide from a false one, and therefore are mastered by every negative thought and emotion that runs through us that describes to us why we feel the way we do.

Guy Finley explains the key to being able to discern the true inner guide from a false one.