Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender.

If you ever really want to know whether or not you're in a "right place" for yourself - or for the well-being of those around you - just go quiet; be as inwardly silent as you can for a moment or two, and the truth will be made clear to you.

The speed with which we are ready to "jump" on others for their missteps, is the rush of the false self racing to escape seeing its own limitations by attacking others for the same.

Student Talks: 2/14/2025 - Perfect peace is not found in some time to come; it has never not existed now. We are created to perfectly reflect this truth...and, in so doing, to realize its freedom.

We can begin to free ourselves from negative states when we understand the truth about their power over us.

Classroom Talk: 7/21/2024 - Until the peace and pleasure found within us is equal to - or greater than any consolation found outside of ourselves - then our power to be patient, loving, and profitable in every moment is, at best, conditional; nothing better serves to sustain anger, frustration, and fear than being identified with a level of self whose life is founded, at best, upon the sands of passing circumstances.

If we will refuse to fill unwanted moments with what we imagine we must have – or do – to feel secure and free, we will soon witness those same dark moments being filled with the fearless Light of an unimaginable Life.

There are no enemies without someone, or something to blame for our pain; whereas, when we will be consciously aware of our suffering – without resisting it – then, is humility born; and where there is this order of humility there abides within it a love that will bear no enemy.

Author Guy Finley and Dr. Ellen Dickstein, PhD., discuss how to turn the tables on stress and anxiety by discovering a whole new way to reconcile self-wrecking negative states. Learn to use troubling thoughts and feelings by transforming their energy into new and positive powers.

Topics covered: What the wanter in you really wants is to continue wanting; A person can't understand a true teaching if he or she is already full of belief about what the teaching is; The nature of the thoughts that offer to lead you through a disturbance are connected to what you want and to what you don't want; The more conflict that is created by thought, the more that thought is called...

Classroom Talk: 5/25/2005 - Our present mind looks at the universe through what amounts to a pin prick in a piece of paper and declares, by that minuscule light meeting the eye, that it has seen all there is to see!

Classroom Talk: 9/7/2022 - Nothing makes us more common, more like all those we constantly judge, than being identified with a false sense of self that would have us believe that -- by some "act of God" -- we're so much better than all we see.