The principle longing we have as human beings is to be ourselves. But this essential longing is always interfered with by something. Here is the essence of the problem: you can never be yourself and protect yourself at the same time. Why? Personality has two principle functions: procurement, which is getting what I desire, and protection, which involves keeping things away from me that threat...

The big problem that we have is not that right ideas don't blow our mind from time to time, because sometimes they do. The problem is that our minds don't stay blown apart. We can't seem to sustain that sense of awe and proper gratitude. Only sustained immersion in the living higher principles and powers -- that real life is always freely giving -- can bring thought to a...

Our work is to consistently take pictures of ourselves, to be able to step outside the stream of the mechanical, comfort-seeking, falsely-contented self so that we can start to see ourselves as we are, and not as we imagine ourselves to be.

We are not intended to divert or resist anything that appears in our consciousness, including negative states. What we want is to see whatever appears -- to let it be revealed -- so that we can understand our proper relationship with it, instead of falsely identifying with everything that passes by. This leads to an ever-closer relationship with the Divine, even as...

In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how our experience of life is directly connected to our understanding of the immutable spiritual laws that govern all things.

Student Talks: 4/5/2024 - Key Lesson: The reason why the search for the "Truth" of oneself is called "pathless"... is because it's not taken in steps, let alone in any known direction; rather, the "journey" to authentic self-liberation is found in our endless opportunity to enter into an ever-higher order of self-understanding that -- like the light in which it is revealed - never stops expanding. And... we are invited to travel along.

Topics covered: When you are reliving any moment, you can't be reborn; Transfiguration is when something old isn't just renewed, but is remade in another image so that it is uplifted, glorified, and beautified as a result of its relationship with what has acted upon it; Something hasn't taken your freedom from you -- you have given your freedom away without knowing it. There is no freedom outside of a relationship with God...

Topics covered: We never have a plan, a desire, or an expectation that does not have a momentum that comes along with it; You can learn from everything that you encounter in life, instead of becoming the captive of resistance to what you meet. Instead of being used by fear, you can use fear to free you; You don't know that you walk around with a desire to be left alone until someone or something bothers you...

Student Talks: 4/7/2023 - Key Lesson: There is no reward for love, let alone for being "loving." Either love ITSELF is the reward, or it is not.

Topics covered: Being present is the same as the capacity to do the right thing at the right time, without needing thought; "The truth about the action must be known and the truth of inaction also must be known; even so the truth about prohibited action must be known. For mysterious are the ways of action. He who sees inaction in action and action in inaction, is wise among men." -- Bhagavad Gita