In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how we are always being acted upon, moment to moment, by certain kinds of energy, and the degree to which we possess command of ourselves is determined by whether or not we are aware of these same forces acting within us.

Negative states never see anything that pleases them...save for when they're able to look at something or someone that troubles them when they see it.

You can't make yourself "ready" for the touch of real life, any more than you can "prepare" to share an unexpected moment of tenderness with someone you love.

Stress, anxiety, and tension are the dark jewels adorning a thorny crown we must wear whenever we try to live more than one moment at a time.

True spiritual strength belongs to God alone, but He graciously lends it to any and all who will take their weakness into battle for His Name's sake.

The only way to exercise your spiritual right to be free is by a continuous effort to enter into, and understand, the nature of what keeps you captive.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 22, 2018. The grand illusion and, in the end, the unseen source of psychological fear and pain is our unconscious perception of disquieting moments that "tells" us we are not responsible, let alone accountable, for the unwanted experiences that come our way.

True faith is to know – without taking thought – that a Living Light has already seen to a right and bright outcome for all things before it’s revealed to you.

Allowing anything to eat at you -- by consenting to sit at the "table of torment" -- serves nothing... save the dark and hungry ghost of some past pain that lives only to consume negative energy.

Judging others is one of the ways in which the unconscious self, asleep to its unflagging sense of uncertainty, maintains the illusion of being superior to all that it meets.

The true measure of your spiritual development is tested by where you are and how you work inwardly in these moments, and not by how much you don't want to be there.

Part I The only force impervious to the pain inherent in the play of opposites is the understanding of them. Part II Do not a self make and be free of self-ache!...