In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about how our lives are reorganized when we start to see that our own will is in conflict with Life's Will. The Divine knows what we need before we know it. When we see that with more clarity, then that observation will organize our mind in such a way that we will begin to recognize what the Divine is revealing to us in each moment.

The next time you run into some familiar blockage or begin to feel unsuited to face some new and difficult personal challenge, don't do what you've always done before. Don't try to think your way around it. You no longer want a way around your troubles because what goes around, comes around! What you want is to grow beyond the level of that disturbance. And to do that, you must not act from it.

The hidden nature of almost all that we do on a collective basis is the direct, but unseen, effect of this one great unconscious desire: to search out what we believe will complete us, drawing us to seek "greener pastures" by the deft touch of its magnetic hand, but never allowing us to rest...

Have you ever looked down at a sidewalk or parking lot and marveled at a single blade of grass that had somehow found the will and the way to break through the pavement and out into the fresh air and sunlight? When we think of a titanic struggle, we don't usually think of a little seed of grass buried in the darkness and fighting to get out in the light. And yet, even though we may...

Topics covered: Everything you need to know is shown to you each moment you are in, and it can’t be separated from the consciousness that is revealing it; We are on this planet because we have business to do in both this world and the higher world; Before it's possible for a human being to be themselves, they're going to have to discover what they actually are...

Classroom Talk: 1/24/2024 - There is a big difference between making a mistake, and thinking of oneself as being a mistake; any compulsive wish to be seen as perfect in the eyes of the world is a punishment that can never be a part of true peace and contentment.

Student Talks: 1/5/2024 - Key Lesson: Just as the eyes that see the sun cannot understand its light by which they behold the shape and beauty of all things, neither can the heart understand the love that calls it to know and embrace all things. Eye and heart are creatures in time, but Light and Love are not. Even so, they meet; in their union is the mystery, miracle, and fulfillment of our yet realized Divine possibility.

Student Talks: 12/29/2023 - Key Lesson: Blessed are those who do (what they do)... for the love of being a part of what they love; but few are those who know this Divine order of love, let alone what it's like to have Love itself as their life partner.

Topics covered: Love does not appear in a time to come after you get what you want. The Love that we cannot give ourselves is always acting on all of creation; We long to give ourselves to something greater than ourselves, and the longing is placed there within us by what is greater; People are afraid to walk away from things that they think they need to produce for themselves, even though attachment to those very things is the cause of...

Topics covered: What if there really is only one answer to every painful question you have ever had about life?; Rumi said, "The antidote is in the venom." Sometimes alongside a poisonous plant in nature is another plant that is the remedy to the poison; Following right on the tail of any disturbing moment are questions about what the disturbance means and how to resolve it...