To no longer be a bother to yourself -- or to anyone else -- is a good working definition of spiritual success.

Whoever loves to sound his own horn, soon finds himself playing all by himself!...

Your interior awakening and ultimate liberation begins with the gradual realization that there is nothing outside of you.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 29, 2018. No one finds the Kingdom of Heaven, awakens to realize one's true Self -- by whatever name one may give to this celestial level of Being -- who fears to seek, to see, and to fully realize... the truth of his or her present level of self.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 16, 2017. Might as well try and lose your shadow by running away from the sun, as hope to escape the painful reactions inherent in remaining spiritually asleep.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 28, 2013. In taking thought, always thinking about what one must do, or have... one never stops asking to "become." But, in remaining awake -- aware of one's thoughts, instead of driven by them -- one asks, "to be"... and this living prayer is always answered.

Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 26, 2015. Real Life is neither what we call (this) life -- nor (fear about) death; it is the simultaneous ground of both states and -- as such -- can be realized only in the Timeless Now... and only by that part of us that is already one with its Timeless Presence within which dwells all possibilities at once.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 20, 2014. All judging of oneself -- whether of one's own negative characteristics, or that of others -- is the dark effect of a divided mind as it acts against itself. First it gives birth to self-loathing created by an imagined comparison, and then it sits in harsh judgment of both that imagined self and its suffering. In this way it hides it...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 13, 2014. Spiritually speaking, all relationships serve one purpose: self-knowledge. Self-knowledge serves one purpose: awakening to the truth of one's self. Awakening to the truth of oneself serves one purpose: dying to oneself. Dying to oneself serves one purpose: rebirth. And rebirth is... the purpose and fulfillment of all relationships.

Within each of us dwells a dark and lower nature whose chief feature it is to ensure that the "perfection" of its imagined wants is never called into doubt. Each time we identify with one of its dark dreams -- taking it as our own -- we consent to not only embody the ceaseless hunger of this sleeping self, but also to live with its fear of seeing that it will never be able to complete itself w...

Guy Finley explains that each of us is a unique blend of energies, both positive and negative, all of which are meant to be used for the purpose of self-revelation.