Sometimes when you rush in, I feel as though I am standing upon the bank of a river rising up in me, and that you are its sudden waters coming over me. Caught up as I am in these moments, all I want is to be carried away. I want to offer myself, toss myself into this upwelling; but I don't know where to find the edge of these waters in order to leap. In these times I feel as the parched eart...

Trying to resolve the pain within us by holding others accountable for it is like looking out at a field we have planted on our own property and wishing, every day, something other than what grows there would take hold and flower. If we wish to have true harmonious relationships with others, then it is we who must change. We must assume responsibility...

Topics covered: Relationships are a spiritual gold mine; Impressions we receive that uncover our feelings; Awakening to a larger consciousness; Being moved by another person; Attachments that become dependencies; Relationships as equal opportunity mirrors; False teachers; Knowing an authentic love; The only thing that bothers us about others is what we want from them; Coming into a moment with...

Look no further than your own heart for the answers to all of your prayers. Best-selling spiritual author Guy Finley explains why we need never fear feeling empty or alone. Discover how discontentment is secretly a golden door leading to a Life beyond unhappiness, where all we will need for a contented life already awaits us.

After a loved one passed away, I began my spiritual quest. Soon after came an amazing and divine experience. In an instant every veil was lifted and I was given a gift; the ability to distinguish illusion from truth. I felt completely at peace and in a constant state of bliss. Fear was gone, and in its place was faith and knowing. All my "buttons" had disappeared -- conflict and anger seemed r...

Classroom Talk: 8/17/2003 - Real spiritual poverty, and the wealth of Real Life it fosters in the soul, is a subtle interior state born of the humility in seeing this one fact about ourselves: In our un-regenerated state we live from a conditioned and comparative mind whose infinite desires confine the self to live in a closed circle of infinite wants.

Classroom Talk: 11/5/2023 - Our highest possibility for spiritual growth can't be separated from our daily work to question, explore, and illuminate any dark thoughts and feelings that may confront us along the Way. A fearless life awaits anyone who will cast-off from the "shores of the known," and who will remain set on that celestial course called "self-knowledge."

Topics covered: All true spiritual teachings have a singular purpose, and that is to call human beings into another world that already exists within them; An unconscious nature within us believes that it is superior to everything that it judges; The love that lifts a person above the loveless world of thought has an infinite capacity to recognize perfect similarity...

Topics covered: Anything that you can imagine cannot be new, because imagination uses the content of the past in order to create its images; Thinking is useless to help you create the life of security that thought pursues in imagination. Thought can't deliver you to an unshakable security; The spiritual solution to your problems is to become properly sick and tired of yourself...

Classroom Talk: 3/23/2022 - The spiritual body that alone can transform the pressure of unconscious opposing forces -- that learns to use them for the continued realization of its own innate perfection -- is further developed each time we struggle, as needed, to remember that nothing in this world (or the next) has the right to turn our own attention against us.

Topics Covered: The strength of our reactions does not prove that we are in charge of ourselves; Without honesty, spiritual success is not possible; Anyone who habitually exhibits a negative limitation believes there is something unique and special about that quality. They actually believe that the limitation is a strength, that there is something good in it; There is nothing natural about...

Classroom Talk: 1/13/2021 - What is real spiritual strength? It is knowing that we need never (again) compromise ourselves in any way -- with anyone, or over anything -- in order to be at peace: (it is) a perfectly quiet confidence in the awareness that our existence owes no debt to any condition, let to the passage of time in which it temporarily appears.