Topics Covered: What is the difference between little "I's" and the whole of the divine; I've battled with anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder since my late teens and don't know how to practice the higher ideas I learn; How do I help a young student in my classroom who is rude and hateful; Is conscience a conduit of truth.

Classroom Talk: 11/12/2004 - Whenever we ask another to help us with a challenge that we must face -- before we've done all we can on our own -- we rob ourselves of realizing this priceless understanding: The higher powers we need to transcend our troubles are given to us, but only as we awaken to our need for them, and stand willing to receive them not in glory, but in humility.

Much of our time in this life is spent waiting for something to happen. There are times when waiting is inescapable -- waiting in traffic, waiting in line at the grocery store, waiting for an appointment -- but we can be attending to a higher world while we are waiting in this one. We are intended to know what it means to wait within ourselves even as we are waiting in the exterior world. Wai...

Guy Finley explains that we always give our attention to what we value most. We can't "look" for the path to the Divine. The path is right here, right now. Our work is to attend and "listen" for the Divine, moment to moment. That is the true path to peace and freedom.

As long as we seek the company of others in order to avoid being with ourselves, we can be true neither to those with whom we gather, nor to ourselves.

If each moment is the secret field of all possibilities, then our greatest potential for happiness is realized in the field itself, and not within any one particular flower that grows there.

Topics Covered: Humanity is starving for connection; You can't separate karma from desire; Thought is karma; Newness is the fulfillment of time; The man behind the mirror; Only human beings have the capacity to see what gives them life; As we are right now we have an "either/or" life; Life exists as a ceaseless disparity between levels of existence; Freedom is the flowering of humility; You ha...

It's a very dangerous thing for the mind to be in motion before one even knows where it's going!...

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how authentic silence is the natural fruit of a mind that has seen the futility of its own efforts to silence itself.

Here's the most important thing to remember whenever you find yourself in a mad rush: what you really want, what you're really after, is a quiet mind... a peaceable state of self reached only by realizing there is no place more empowering for you to be than in the present moment.

Topics covered: Tapping Into The Powerful Resource of Effective Prayer; Our life moment to moment is a ceaseless interaction with a matrix of divine and earthly energies that always respond in appropriate measure to whatever we as human beings put forth into that life; Prayer is for the betterment and perfection of ourselves, but it also serves unknowingly as the source of a punishment if we're not aware of ourselves...

If you wish to "love thy God with all thy heart, soul, and mind," then learn to look at your life – moment to moment -- with all thy heart, soul, and mind.