Without something within you to unconsciously oppose it, a negative state is a wind without a sail that has no choice but to blow itself out, returning into oblivion.

The more perfect the reflection, the less difference there is between the perceived and the perceiver. It is the absence of this distinction that the divided mind, the false self fears above all else... For its very sense of existence depends upon feeling apart from all that it sees.

Topics covered: To everything there is a season, turn, turn, turn; Christ never hated those who resisted or resented his work; The illusion of bondage; Being a pawn of a punishing nature; Doing what you are given to do; Self-Shock Syndrome; Our language has been perfected by the consciousness that perpetuates the victim mentality; Being poor in spirit; It's hard not to want consolation...

Topics covered: The first stirring of your essence; Christ represents uncreated divinity; Waking up is being put in the place where the branch meets the vine; Time is a creation of the eternal, that which has no time; What we think of as passing time is actually our momentary awareness of time; Identification with reaction creates passing time; Reactions keep reincarnation in place....

Dear Bro. Finley: Please tell me how to stop identifying with fearful thoughts and fearful bodily sensations. I have read so many of your writings. I know what the Bible says. I believe I am complete in Christ. I just don't seem to "get it" as far as when thoughts come "don't resist them." If a thought is there how do you continue on, not resist it and just let it be and move on? Thank you. (S...

Only evil is fascinated with evil.

You are in between worlds, and both have their own gravitational pull. It is only in the silence of complete attention that you can detect and be aware of any thoughts that are trying to drag you down into the world below you. When Christ said "I go before you to make the crooked places straight" he was referring to a nature within that is intended to connect you, through your attention, to th...

The following short set of questions and answers is taken from one of the special sections that end each chapter in Guy Finley's newest book, Let Go and Live in the Now: QUESTION: Whenever I read or spend time pondering truthful things I often feel as though nothing in the world can bring me down. In those moments I am the conqueror of all that had overcome me only minutes before. Can y...

The development of unconditional character can't begin without the practice of Presence, including the sacrifice it demands... because what is unconditional character other than the soul's ability to reflect and reunite itself with the Light of Love from above... from out of which radiates all that is Timeless, Righteous, Constant and True.

Topics covered: Is it possible the Divine would start looking for us early in life; What are the dangers of spiritual arrogance; We seem to live in our own private worlds, but is there a common, objective world; How does one remember oneself; What is the difference between true feeling and derivative feelings; What is the relationship between the mind and the brain; What is the difference betw...

There is nothing in the past over which to suffer, and no impulse to do so without first having been tempted and then deceived into revisiting, and then resisting the pain of some old memory...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 17, 2016. Part 1: It's impossible to regret the repeated appearance of some unwanted character (seen) in yourself without having agreed -- no matter how unknowingly -- to relive its painful presence over and over again! Part 2: Those who seek true atonement with what is Divine must agree to realize a certain kind of spiritual sorrow as the cos...