Rushing is a false thrill; it's a painful sensation that helps create and sustain the illusion that the distance between the false self, and its desire of the moment, is real.

Topics covered: The spiritual path is the path of negation, not affirmation. You must lose your life in order to gain it; Immortality is the gradual realization that you are already whole; We were raised to believe that our worth is based upon how others see us; We were raised to believe that there should never be any disturbances; When the observer and the observed are not separate for us, we are a participant in creation, rather than the observer...

The more you're willing to see that living within you is something that resists, resents, and rejects your wish to be self-aware at all times -- that wants only to be left alone with what it wants, regardless of the cost to you -- the more ruthless you'll become in your dealings with this dark nature, doing whatever it takes to free yourself from its grip.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of February 20, 2017. Real life is a perfect stream of what is always being made New; to enter its current we must agree to see, sacrifice, and shed whatever is keeping us from being a conscious part of its flow.

When you are asleep, it isn't that you forget yourself, it's that something from your memory remembers what it wants to remember. It can be said that reincarnation is inescapable if the only thing that remembers your life is who you have been. These classes are to awaken in you a memory of what's higher.

The following higher insights are rarely discussed among the spiritually uninitiated because of the measurable effect that their strong medicine causes in the soul. But not only do they help summarize a prescription for a free life, they also present the case for why we need such a healing. Welcome these truths into your mind and watch how their refreshing view of reality leads you to that unc...

Persist with your wish to be free; work to see all that you can about yourself, and then quietly watch what happens. Whatever appears before your inner eyes does so as part of what you need to see in order to realize that freedom for which you have asked. Never forget this truth... and your spiritual progress will be steady.

Classroom Talk: 6/1/2003 - If we were half as concerned with what we "chew" over in our mind as we are about the kind of foods that we put into our mouth, not only would our soul be better nourished, but our bodies would be healthier too!

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about what it means to let go of something without needing to know beforehand the outcome of that sacrifice.

Classroom Talk: 7/5/2002 - Turn this knowledge into spiritual power to help dismiss any discouraging thought: Those parts of us that whisper to us from some unseen corner of our heart, that tell us that our effort to know the Truth of ourselves is useless -- or that our wish for more Light is a waste, these thoughts and feelings are nothing but the dark voices of uselessness and waste themselves. These negative states must try to denigrate...

In this short talk, Guy Finley discusses the need to be nourished by a new kind of understanding that appears when we can no longer tolerate giving our lives away to a mechanical nature that acts at our expense.

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.