There is nothing that takes place in life, including all the ugliness in it, that isn't part of our preparation for discovering within ourselves the eternal ability to transcend what has been disturbed. And the way in which the eternal process of transcending what is disturbed takes place through an act of Love.

The anticipation of something desirable is always sweet in conception, which would be great if it weren't for a certain fact about the nature of longing itself: it appears within us, at first, by itself, bringing with it the promise of just what we need to make everything right. But appearances are not always what they seem; for standing directly behind it, as it were...

The attempt to "save" ourselves -- to rescue and release the troubled "me" -- without first understanding just who and what this nature is that would save itself from its suffering, is the first real threshold over which the sincere aspirant must pass... since the presumption on the part of the seeker here is that he or she knows what's wrong with their life...

What if timeless ideas like the following were introduced to the whole world in such a way as to reveal their secret story? Could the light of these truths -- the hope and promise they hold about our own latent higher possibilities -- help liberate us from the host of fears that hold our consciousness hostage? Imagine the end of all forms of fanaticism born of imagined differences...

The "healing" we need, the sense of wholeness for which we search, has nothing to do with adding anything to ourselves. This needed healing comes from recognizing that the pain we have -- along with the suffering inherent in being negative over this pain -- is born out of participating in a series of illusions that have been handed down from generation to generation!...

The peace of the perfectly present moment, in which dwells the kingdom of heaven, is what our heart of hearts longs to know.

There exists at all times a particular kind of field, an awareness that holds, and is intimately connected to, all that it is aware of within itself. As you see that we are all particles of God's consciousness, where everything in the field affects everything else in the field, you understand that you cannot continue to do to yourself and others what you have unconsciously done previously -- i...

To go quiet, you must go within and become an impartial witness to the life of your own thoughts and feelings.

As paradoxical as it seems, the reason most of us find no lasting peace in life is because our mind is forever trying to find something outside itself in which it can rest. This condition is not unlike the little fish that, unhappy with just swimming around, went in search of water -- its hope being that if it could find what it was looking for then it would also find what was missing from i...

The mind asleep to itself is a "divided" mind. One part of us wants what another part of us feels guilty about wanting.

You break free of unhappy thoughts and emotions by seeing that, even though it may feel that way at the moment, you are not owned by them.

In this short talk, Guy Finley eloquently lays out the beauty and the different expressions of the thirst for truth, which thirst must be an authentic one, and how it can only be quenched at a place where a real source of truth exists.