Classroom Talk: 9/21/2003 - Ultimately, it is the power to serve others that serves the one who seeks a life in the Light of Truth, while those who seek power for themselves serve no one, not even their own best interests.

Topics covered: The intimate enemy is a consciousness that is asleep to itself but does not know it; As long as we have good reasons for why we suffer, we are never going to transcend painful patterns; Something in us believes that there are good reasons to suffer over things that we have no control over; Sufi story: "I lost my donkey, but at least I was not riding it at the time." We are not meant to be saddled by negative thoughts and feelings...

Topics Covered: If you will persevere, you will begin to experience moments in a new way; What you see about yourself is stolen by a part of you that causes you to suffer over it; Our present level of will belongs to the opposites; Talking to yourself is an attempt to reconcile what has been disturbed within you; Conflict is inherent in comparison; The Divine is not in you, you are in the Divi...

The main reason it’s wise to listen to one’s own heart -- whenever we can step out of the rush and remember to do so -- is because there’s much more to be learned from the parts of us that don't "speak" in words than those that do.

Classroom Talk: 7/23/2003 - If people could tell the difference, and were allowed to speak only what are original impressions, the world would suddenly fall into a deep and sweet silence.

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how stillness cannot be brought about by any kind of will of our own, but that a real relationship with stillness is established by becoming aware of the division that is created by our own mind's willfulness.

What happens within us when an unwanted moment takes place? The answer is that we are instantaneously filled with resistance to that moment. What we call the unwanted moment is really a reflection of an order of ourselves that the moment reveals. We never meet anything other than ourselves. When a moment reveals something that we do not like, it is actually something within us that doesn't wan...

Classroom Talk: 2/25/2005 - Here is why a mind awakened to its own native silence never gets into a stew over what to do with any negative thought that appears within it: Just as light makes obvious whatever form is brought into it, so silence can "see" a troubled thought for what it is in reality: nothing more than an agitated noise fashioned into a familiar shape; a discovery that -- once made -- requires nothing of us other than to just let the pain of it fade away. 

In this video blog, Guy talks about why it is so important to work at spending more and more time each day attending to our interior lives.

Classroom Talk: 12/10/2004 - When, before our inner eyes, we always have someplace better to be, or that feeling we must make something more of ourselves, we miss seeing two great truths: First, all imagined destinations are dreams whose promised fulfillment fades the nearer we draw to them... and secondly, that where and who we are in each moment is a field of possibilities whose riches are not only immediate, but everlasting.