True contentment is never a question of the extent of our possessions, or the ability to temporarily please ourselves; rather it is found in a still sleeping part of ourselves that, once awakened, is empowered to detect and reject those parts of us that would have us believe the success we long for exists somewhere outside of our own awakened Self.

Once we understand how to use them . . . life's many unwanted twists and turns are no longer seen as being just isolated, disjointed experiences under whose yoke we are born to be burdened, but instead are realized as unique opportunities whose rewards are the lessons that can lead us, if we will follow, up to and through the successful education of our soul.

Better to reach and fail... than fail to reach and cling, unaware, to a nature that lives only to pull you down.

Part 1 Work is how you start helping yourself because the only thing hurting you is your present inability to see into and work through what is compromising you.Part 2The true (and only) victory is in the "battle" well fought, for only when we willingly engage the adversary do we discover – in each successive encounter – that we are always given..

Classroom Talk: 11/20/2024 - Whenever we kneel to the temptation of some consoling indulgence, or struggle to acquire a power to protect us from a fear...we yield to, and serve the pleasure of a darkened desire that has promised, once again, to save us from (our) pain.

Topics explored in this dialogue: The more we achieve, the more we feel we have to achieve, and the more we fear losing what we have; We feel both something in us that wants us to succeed, and that which wants to sabotage us; Truthful ideas are intended to sow a seed of discontent with the life we currently have.

You have triumphed at life's game when -- no matter win or lose in the eyes of the world -- you can walk away from any demanding moment with a measure of more true self-understanding than you took into it.

Any human being who has to hold himself together is someone who is ready to fall apart. Trying to hold yourself together is a terrible way to go through life. Our task is to prove this to ourselves. The fears of falling apart can never be quieted by adding more pieces to your self, such as success or the hopes of success. With this approach to life, you wear out faster, because you now have ev...

In this video, Guy Finley explains that the true role of a teacher is to remind students of their actual condition, which presently is an unconscious state of "spiritual sleep." Authentic spiritual work is a gradual awakening to what we have falsely taken ourselves to be.

There is nothing higher, better, or brighter for us to do with our lives than to use every moment for the purpose of attending to what Truth would have us learn about ourselves.

Every inspired thought -- each new insight that points to the heights of what we might yet become -- serves to enlarge the mind that conceives it. And the grand discovery of that mind touched by any such truth is that within this breaking light is found nothing less than the endlessness of its own possibilities.

The only thing