Student Talks: 9/25/2020 - Key Lesson: True spiritual healing is never the result of an "achievement" one celebrates as such; it's always a very personal, and often painful moment of consciously realizing the extent of one's weakness. Yet, paradoxically, in the ensuing humility is a victory, but not our own; for now...

Topics Covered: There is so much blame and conflict in the world because hardly anyone understands their pain; When physical pain comes, what is it there for? It is there to alert us to the fact that there is a disruption in our normal level of health; The 'I' that appears and reacts to the moment of the registration of the pain is not the same 'I' that is going to bring about the healing...

Classroom Talk: 9/20/2020 - True spiritual healing is never the result of an "achievement" one celebrates as such; it's always a very personal, and often painful moment of consciously realizing the extent of one's weakness. Yet, paradoxically, in the ensuing humility is a victory, but not our own; for now, we have gleaned a little understanding...

Classroom Talk: 5/6/2020 - We cannot keep trying to "delight" ourselves, and develop ourselves -- spiritually -- at the same time, any more than we can have our cake and eat it too. But once we understand that the work of developing our soul is the only pleasure that never turns into some painful opposite... then our life becomes delightful...

Topic: How to Use Any Empty Moment to Enrich Your Soul (4/19/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: How to Use Any Empty Moment to Enrich Your Soul (4/19/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 4/19/2020 - Life will empty whatever you fill -- and whatever you empty, Life will fill. That's the code: it is the higher, still hidden understanding required to realize the timeless splendor of the soul, all wrapped in mystery and filled with bittersweet contradiction.

Could it be possible that we are on this earth to spend our time worrying about money? Endlessly trying to figure out ways to please ourselves? Is there any remote chance that the reason we are here is to carry a hatred for years and years? To do nothing but think about ways to secure power, possessions, or approval? That doesn't make sense, does it? But clearly there...

It is a certain level of miracle when, for a person's willingness and work to understand the truth of themselves, something begins to formulate within them that will start to be there for them without them having to ask for it. It is an aggregation of a certain kind of energy that finally forms a certain kind of memory, a certain substance, that begins to be the center of your gravity.

When you are with someone who is negative and they stir a negative reaction in you, once you understand that they have no awareness of their state, much less see the possibility of stepping into wholeness, you can choose to quietly die to that dark nature within yourself, which is to the mutual benefit of both of you.

Guy Finley, the founder and director of Life of Learning Foundation, explains that the world we see with our eyes cannot lift us into the world of our true possibilities, but we can catch momentary feelings which are a reflection of a world above us and within us. The full replay of this class is available in Life of Learning Foundation's online community, GuyFinleyNow.org, where you can join...