In this short talk, Guy Finley explains how real compassion is the fruit of the mind that awakens to where it is harming itself.

We have not been given this precious life in order to go through it resisting everything that doesn't suit us; rather we are created to grow through whatever we meet along the way.

Real compassion has to do with realizing that conscious relationship is the root of our existence, trying to get us to wake up a little bit and enter into those relationships which make it possible for our lives to become what they're intended to be.

Higher inner awareness grants you patience and new forms of consideration, because now you realize just how much pain everyone is really in.

Our willingness to see the difference between real and false strength brings about an inner change that puts us in an entirely new relationship with life.

The better the instrument, the nearer the actual replication to the original principle. We are meant to be sensitive instruments whose purpose is to let God's hand play His notes through us. And in fact we are created to actually enjoy the "sound" of reality that is being played. As a result of the natural enjoyment of the notes that are being played, we can become for others a reminder that...

Here is a great secret about authentic prayer: When a man or a woman really prays, there must be some trembling behind it. If there is no trembling behind a prayer, then there is no implied sacrifice behind the words in the prayer. The authentic nature of all prayer is to establish a direct communion with conscious forces -- with God's life. We ought not pray with arrogance or with an attitud...

There are two incredibly powerful words. It is through these two words that we can actually begin to place ourselves where what is True, Right, and Bright can touch us. The two words are "I'm sorry." Most of us learn to say "I'm sorry" because it gets us through problems. Usually we say "I'm sorry", if we actually do, without any real sincerity behind the words. But only human beings have t...

The feeling that everything is right with your life comes in direct proportion to you being for everything that is right in life. When you begin to be for God, for Truth -- before you're for yourself -- the Truth of God's Life will begin to be there before you. This Supreme Nature will start to live inside of you and do something that you've never been able to do for yourself. Which is wh...

10 Exercises for increasing your spiritual memory. Remember that every effort you make to remember to remember God increases His interest in you.

When you see the poverty of your present fallen nature, the wish to have your attention on the divine and ask it to be with you naturally follows. The more aware you are of a pain that you can't push away, the more you are naturally in prayer.