How do I help someone in pain? "To support and help someone in pain, the first true thing is always action, not words." Guy Finley explains how working on your own mindfulness and self-awareness can educate you before you give advice to a friend in pain.

In this short video, Guy talks about the existence of an unwavering part of us that is aware of the chaos moving around it, but yet is not attached to any of the movement. This higher consciousness is already at peace.

In this answer to a viewer's question, Guy talks about how we are presently not in charge of our own mind, and what we must do in order to be free of its authority over us.

Student Talks: 2/12/2021 - Key Lesson: A quiet mind is one that literally lives in a different world than does the mind that talks to itself.

Topics Covered: The thing that our heart is searching for is not of this world, which means that the false self cannot find it by identifying with changing conditions; "In time all things are seeking completion. In the Now all things are complete." -- Maurice Nicoll; What is timeless is already here, we just don't usually see it. Our highest destiny awaits us above us, and what is...

Classroom Talk: 2/7/2021 - A quiet mind is one that literally lives in a different world than does the mind that talks to itself.

Meditation Talk: 1/31/2020 - All things... be they character or creature -- animate or not -- speak to you from within yourself. The wildflower, the wind, the tumbling leaf and the dead branch that catches it: all have voices, and all may be heard. Learn to listen and you'll hear the Eternal as the sound of yourself.

Student Talks: 1/24/2020 - Key Lesson: Our mind is at last our own only when we can give it fully to the moment at hand, regardless of what life seems to hand us in that moment.

There is no "self" without relationship. In reality, the observer and the observed do not exist apart from one another. However, in the absence of higher awareness, the lower level of self believes that it is separate from what it sees as being outside of itself. This is the source of suffering. The gift of being able to see that the observer is the observed is the reconciliation and the end...

Classroom Talk: 2/24/2019 - Part 1: The struggle to somehow change ourselves into something "better" than what some unwanted moment reveals to us about ourselves is like trying to "improve" the color scheme of a breathtaking sunset by throwing a bucket of our favorite paint into the air... and then hoping that some of it sticks!

Classroom Talk: 2/17/2019 - No one can return to, let alone realize their right to a conscious relationship with the Divine indwelling Self, without first agreeing to pay the cost of consciously, completely releasing themselves from all that they have mistaken themselves to be...