Mindfulness is mandatory for anyone wishing to end the misery born of trying – in vain – to fill an empty heart with meaningless experiences.

Topics Covered: True ideas interfere with the agenda of what is untrue; We are taught early in our lives that we should know the answer to every question. Otherwise there will be a punishment; We believe that the sooner we can answer the urgent question our mind is asking, the sooner we will be released from the pain of not knowing; The pain is in the question itself because the question...

We know the presence of each passing moment by its activity, but the power and eternity of the moment can only be realized through our choosing to be consciously passive to that presence.

To realize the great liberating truth that we never walk through this life alone, we must spend more time by ourselves!...

Classroom Talk: 1/14/2005 - If only some great law required those who are ever speaking critically about the work of others to assume a portion of that same work -- in order to make it better -- then the world would know a sweet new order of silence, and those who "do" in life would no longer have to bear the bitter sound of those who won't.

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...

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about an idea that, if understood properly, has the power to forever change the way we respond to situations that usually instigate a painful conflict of one kind or another.

Topics covered: Genuine prayer is connected to something you have genuinely seen about yourself. The wrong kind of prayer, the selfish kind, is connected to the avoidance of seeing something true about yourself; Ongoing psychological pain is always the product of having mistaken who you are. "Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind..."

Topics covered: We meet life through our understanding of it. If we want to change our experience of life, then we will first need to change our understanding of it; We psychologically chain people to our demands whenever they don't do what we want them to do; Your attention is a form of request. Everything that you attend to, even if you are not aware of it, is a form of prayer...