Classroom Talk: 8/24/2003 - Trying to escape the painful effects of spiritual ignorance is like hoping to lose your shadow by running away from the sun.
Along the upper path that leads Home, there are many phenomenal events that first tempt, and then -- God willing -- liberate the aspirant. The first temptation is the dream of being someone spiritually special: an image whose upkeep is the pain of being in conflict with any experience that denies its existence. Liberation, by grace, is seeing this conflict for what it is: the inescapable...
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Here is a great spiritual paradox: none can hope to know the truth of their Divine Individuality until they’ve realized their all-inclusive similarity with everyone they meet.
Guy Finley explains that a real prayer formulates naturally within spiritual aspirants once they clearly see the fact of their own nature, and realize the necessity for genuine higher help.
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Classroom Talk: 9/28/2022 - Any lingering form of painful psychological resistance to some unwanted experience of life is the unconscious rejection of spiritual atonement.