How is it possible to learn a lesson again and again (the spiritual idea of experiencing a "box within a box"), where each time you see something new?...

It is correctly said that Truth is a pathless land because to grow inwardly, spiritually, is not about reaching places in time or space apart from where we "stand" now, but to realize there is no place where the indwelling Spirit of God doesn't already reside. The True Path is first a stream, then a river, then a flood, and finally the ocean of one great realization that we are already Home.

Topic: The Spiritual Facts You Need to Free Yourself from Painful Thoughts (10/13/21 Classroom Talk)

In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how there is nothing in the world more practical than true spiritual principles.

GF: Welcome and good evening. Our chat will begin once I post these opening remarks on what each of us can do -- on a daily basis -- to develop more harmonious human relationships. Deep spiritual work reveals the truth that hellish things on earth manifest as they do because their dark cause dwells hidden somewhere in us. Tonight we look into this interior abyss and shine into its unseen corn...

Part 1 Spiritually striving to be "no one" is a trick of the mind as it seeks shelter from its own self-inflicted suffering. Seen properly, the "choice" is either to be someone defined and confined by the limitation of thought, or to be One: seeing and realizing -- without having to think about it -- that one's True Self is indefinable. Part 2 I am in you, you are in me: There's o...

It is an extraordinary thing -- this engaging feeling that comes with simply remembering you -- even though I have no idea where you are. How is it possible to feel such an abiding tenderness for what I am unable to see? Let alone touch or possess? And yet! On mornings like today with such soft winter sunlight gliding through the bared branches and the air so cool and undisturbed, I'm moved...

Human beings suffer from a kind of spiritual amnesia produced by having assumed a false identity without knowing it. How is that possible? This temporary false self feels real. There's no mistake about that! It is animated and driven along by the flood of reactions we have as we run around seeking fulfillment. But the fact that this lower nature is driven doesn't mean it is alive. A bulldoze...

This is the first and foremost thing the true aspirant must understand if he or she is ever to find the freedom they seek: negative states cannot learn.

Over the years of living on a small mountaintop in southern Oregon, I have learned many valuable lessons from observing the wildlife that shares the forest area in which my house sits sequestered. The truth is, along the spiritual path, nature is never not exhibiting -- in real time -- with real creatures -- some of the most profound principles one can hope to learn. And key here is the idea t...

Guy Finley explains that success in your spiritual life follows the understanding that "in my weakness is thy strength made perfect."

There is a very distinct reason why the work of remembering oneself serves as the very foundation, the heart of spiritual self-liberation. It is very easy for us to forget what it is that we want from life. For instance, one can have an all-consuming desire to acquire some trinket or toy, or even a new relationship that -- "this time" -- will bring an end to one's loneliness. But as we have a...